Well-being and Prosperity

This second national report on the health and wellbeing of young people in Australia provides information about the current health and well being status of young people and illustrates the many factors that influence health and well being. Part 1 provides background information, including population characteristics. Part two provid ....

The City of Greater Bendigo has sought community members' participation in the Bendigo Wellbeing Survey. The survey was anonymous and has been developed to find out community attitudes to a number of emerging health and wellbeing issues that affect the community, to develop an understanding of how community needs are changing and to identify oppo ....

Discusses the changes in population and economy of rural regions in Australia. Status of urban and rural populations in Australia; Factors that contribute to changes in rural populations; Overview of the disparity in incomes between urban and rural areas; Analysis of the future of farming communities in the country . Report Locationhttp://conne ....

Discusses the 'development gap' that is both pervasive and counter-productive for any pursuit of economic and social equity. As long as this gap persists, economic goals are seen in isolation from other community goals, and non-economic community needs and aspirations remain disconnected from sources of economic prosperity. Repor ....

The PASCAL Observatory is a UK / Australian collaboration that shares research on social capital, learning regions and place management. The observatory recognises the necessity of partnerships for the successful implementation of policy. Three initiatives that illustrate ways in which governments can intervene to promote social ob ....

To report a study that explored the experiences of night-shift nurses, focusing on employee interrelationships and work satisfaction. Night-shift nurses are a critical component in hospital care making it essential to understand the experiences that give meaning to their work and understand how these nurses and the organization can benefit from t ....

This study investigated sleep quality, fatigue, mental health and physical activity in rural paramedic shiftworkers. Although limited, previous studies have associated high fatigue levels and poorer health in this sector with shiftwork rostering and occupational demands. A modified version of the Standard Shiftwork Index was completed by 150 para ....

Dominant explanations of young people’s health risk behaviours echo essentialist notions of perceived invulnerability and risk misperception. Rural youth, however, are considered particularly ‘at-risk’. In this paper I argue for a need to challenge rural youth discourses, as they can have counterproductive implications.   To evidence ....

Regional economic and social development is an important public issue in most countries, yet among the least successful. In Australia, some 40 years of trial and error regional strategy appear to have had limited success in securing long-range economic and social development leading to more diversified economies, population growth and converging ....

Building on Fielding's idea of escalator regions as places where young people migrate (often temporarily) to get rapid career advancement, this paper proposes a new perspective on ‘escalator migration’ as it applies to frontier or remote regions in particular. Life events, their timing and iterations have changed in the thirty years since Fie ....

The development of regional measures of child social exclusion for Australia are underpinned by increasing research and policy interest in indicators of child wellbeing, multidimensional measures of poverty, and spatial differences in disadvantage. The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra ....

This Service Plan provides the strategic direction for service delivery for the Western Australian Country Health Service's Coastal Wheatbelt and Moora catchment for the next 10 years and will inform the implementation plan for the State Government's $565 million Southern Inland Health Initiative. The Service Plan was developed via a comprehensiv ....

In 2011 the Country Health SA Local Health Network (CHSALHN) established a number of mental health Intermediate Care Services (ICS) whose aim is to support the transition of mental health consumers of services from acute care to a range of sub acute health service options. The ICS provide sub acute care options in community settings including int ....

This research project study centered on the examination of community capitals that exist within a thriving rural community located in the upper Great Plains region. Grounded theory helped in the analysis of the data to understand how community capitals contributed to the socioeconomic growth and well-being of a thriving rural community. ....