These publications report on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, and NT. The reports are based on the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010: detailed analyses report. Jurisdiction-specific...

This paper is an initial step towards building an evidence base on Australian community attitudes to people with disability, on the impact of these attitudes on outcomes for people with disability and on effective policies for improving community attitudes towards them.

User fees are widely regarded as one of the main obstacles to increasing poor people’s access to health care in developing countries and, in doing so, promoting more inclusive forms of development. During the 1980s and early 1990s, a number of developing country governments introduced formal fees for health services in an attempt to generate...

There are 24 hours in each day.Yet more now than ever, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to fit everything in. For many of us, the balance between work, family and social life is an increasingly complicated exercise in time management. There’s so much we like to do with our time beyond the...

This research synthesis provides a rigorous analysis of the key elements of effective youth mentoring programs. The report considers national and international evidence on the value for investment and identifies evidence regarding the social and economic benefits for youth of quality one-to-one relationship based mentoring. The report was commissioned by the Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance...