New Research

Working with sibling sexual abuse

10 January 2012This interview discusses sibling sexual assault, the treatment for children and young people with sexually abusive behaviour, family-based therapy, the role of shame for perpetrators, and the impact on parents.

Responding to women's experiences of sexual assault in institutional and care settings

11 November 2011This paper considers the prevalence of sexual assault, both current and historical, within various institutional settings and explores some of the barriers to disclosing and responding to sexual assault within these settings.

Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2009

Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2009

09 November 2011The most important trend in ART treatment has been the increase of single embryo transfer resulting in significant reduction of multiple delivery rate from 14.1% in 2005 to 8.2% in 2009. 

To have or not to have? Australian women's childbearing desires, expectations and outcomes

13 October 2011Australia’s low fertility rate is commonly attributed to deliberate decisions by women to avoid having children. Existing theoretical explanations of fertility decision-making mostly view childbearing as a rational, voluntary process and focus on the ‘costs’ to women of having children.

The health of Australia's prisoners 2010

10 October 2011Relating to the National Prisoner Health Indicators, developed to help monitor the health of prisoners, this second report continues to inform and evaluate the planning, delivery and quality of prisoner health services.

HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: Annual report of trends in behaviour 2011

HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: Annual report of trends in behaviour 2011

03 October 2011The report reviews social and behavioural research on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections. Stigma remains a major issue for people affected by HIV, hepatitis C or drug dependence.

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Ageing

State Trustees Limited: management of represented persons

08 February 2012This audit found that State Trustees is not able to clearly demonstrate that it is fulfilling its obligations to represented persons.

Service costs in modern residential aged care facilities

31 January 2012This paper presents the results of a national study of the cost of delivering residential aged care services in modern and efficient facilities.

2010-11 report on the operation of the Aged Care Act 1997

23 January 2012Recent reviews of the Aged Care Act of 1997 have led to increases in government funding in particular, aged care facilites and the services they provide to indigenous communities.

Mental health

Care and support of male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence

02 February 2012Sexual violence against men and boys is a pervasive feature of armed conflicts. This paper provides commentary, recent data, and promising programming and therapeutic approaches in the care and support of male survivors.

Improving Indigenous community governance

02 February 2012Strengthening the organisational capacity of both Indigenous and government organisations is critical to raising the health, wellbeing and prosperity of Indigenous Australian communities.

The role of informal community resources in supporting independent housing for young people recovering from mental illness

30 January 2012This project looks at the housing issues facing young independant people with mental illness.

Commentary

Unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions

02 February 2012A recent study in the Lancet by the Guttmacher Institute and the W.H.O shows that overall abortion rates have stalled, writes Mina Barling for the Drum.

Why primary health care reform should top the COAG agenda

19 February 2010And it might even help 'fix' hospitals, writes Hal Swerissen in Croakey

A different kind of politics

23 December 2009When women MPs came together to force approval of RU486, a new cross-party grouping seemed to be in the making. In Inside Story, Sara Dowse looks at what happened next

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Topic Guides

A guide to understanding and working with General Practice in NSW

20 May 2011Providing an outline of general practice, this resource considers its uniformity and diversity; its funding arrangements, service delivery, workforce, training, capacity and supporting structures.

Guideline on the application of the premises standards - 2011

  • Australian Human Rights Commission

04 April 2011This guide has been issued to help designers, architects, builders and clients to better understand the Disability (Access to Premises - buildings) Standards 2010  which will commence on 1 May 2011.

Arts for all: opening doors to people with a disability

15 February 2010This guide provides practical and long-term ways for artists and arts organisations to enhance their access, market their events to the disabled community and build new audiences.

Audio

Working together for a better health care system

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20 November 2009Research findings and government reports indicate Australia's primary health care workforce is facing significant challenges and is lagging behind in its use of teamwork approaches.

Promises and challenges in developing new vaccines, with a focus on diseases of the developing world

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13 November 2009Learning how to harness the power of the immune system to combat infectious killers has been one of the most dramatic developments in the history of medicine. 

Health policy

Diabetes indicators in Australia

01 February 2012Diabetes has increased significantly among the Australian population over the past 20 years, however the rate of diabetes-related deaths is falling, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition

01 February 2012Over half (51%) of Indigenous people living in non-remote parts of Australia aged 15 and over do very little or no exercise, compared with 33% of non-Indigenous Australians (AIHW 2011a).

Health; Community services; Housing and homelessness

30 January 2012This report  provides an overview of the health sector, presenting both contextual information and high level performance information.

Video

Secondary school students and sexual health 2008

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20 November 2009Researchers from La Trobe University's Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) discuss The Fourth National Survey of Australian Secondary School Students and Sexual Health.

Sex, power and the future of the world

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21 September 2009Author and journalist Michelle Goldberg makes a persuasive argument that a nation's legislation and attitudes around the reproductive rights of women are frequently reflective of much broader political and ideological agendas.

Disability

Work-related injuries in Australia: Who did and didn't receive workers' compensation in 2009-10

09 January 2012Analysing the results of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Work-related Injuries Survey, this report finds that of the 567 500 employees injured while working in 2009-10, only 38 per cent of them received workers' compensation.

Websites

I Vote For Choice

28 September 2010Women’s Health Victoria, together with a number of other Victorian women’s health services, has developed the I Vote For Choice website to enable users to send a message of support or disappointment to their local MPs, depending on how they voted on abortion law reform in 2008.

Index of Victorian Women’s Health and Wellbeing

08 September 2010An online gateway to evidence-based health and wellbeing data on Victorian women and girls across a wide variety of indicators relevant to a social model of health.

Croakey: the Crikey health blog

25 August 2009The Croakey blog is a forum for debate and discussion about health issues and policy.

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Books

A Decent Provision: Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

A Decent Provision: Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

  • John Murphy
  • Ashgate
A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949.
Leadership Beyond Good Intentions - What It Takes To Really Make A Difference

Leadership Beyond Good Intentions - What It Takes To Really Make A Difference

  • Geoff Aigner
  • Allen & Unwin
Good intentions are not enough. You want to change things in your organisation or in the world, but despite your best efforts you run into obstacles and resistance. The temptation is to see the challenges as lying outside ourselves. We grasp at a model or a tool, or we find other people slow to get the point or worse - obstructive. But the real challenge we face is often ourselves.

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Topic Guides

A guide to understanding and working with General Practice in NSW

20 May 2011Providing an outline of general practice, this resource considers its uniformity and diversity; its funding arrangements, service delivery, workforce, training, capacity and supporting structures.

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