Recently added articles from Australian Journal of Social Issues:
Australian Journal of Social Issues: special issue devoted to selected papers from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference.
Dec 22, 2008; ... The papers in this Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Social Issues were originally presented at the 10th Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC), held at the University of New South Wales in July 2007. The theme of the conference was Social Policy Through the Life Course: ...
Towards new indicators of disadvantage: deprivation and social exclusion in Australia.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... 1. Introduction * Studies of Australian poverty have concentrated on comparing people's incomes (adjusted to allow for differences in family needs) with poverty lines in order to discover how many people are poor (the poverty rate), who is affected by it (the structure of ...
Mothers' work-to-family strain in single and couple parent families: the role of job characteristics and supports.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... There is considerable evidence that for parents, aspects of work 'spill over' into family life, sometimes in a positive way (work-family gains) and other times in a negative way (work-family strains). This analysis focuses on some negative aspects of these work-to-family spillover effects ...
Radical change or more of the same? Public attitudes towards social citizenship in New Zealand since neoliberal reform.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Introduction Neoliberal reforms are often assumed to have significantly affected public opinion towards the social rights of citizenship, as reflected in attitudes towards economic protectionism and the welfare state. This is because the transformation of Keynesian-welfarist ...
What is the (net) cost to government of homelessness programs?(1)(Author abstract)
Dec 22, 2008; ... 1. Introduction The net cost of providing support to clients of a social program is the gross cost net of any savings achieved elsewhere resulting from program participation. (2) Savings, or cost offsets, occur when social programs lower outlays in non-program related areas ...
Feeling motivated yet? Long-term unemployed people's perspectives on the implementation of workfare in Australia.(Author abstract)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Introduction A common assumption of workfare programs is that many of the long term unemployed exhibit deficits in motivation to engage proactively in the search for paid work (Wanberg, Kanfer and Rotundo, 1999; Hawksworth, 1992). Such assumptions are based on the proposition ...
Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness: the Mental Health Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI).
Dec 22, 2008; ... Introduction With high hospitalisation rates and widespread social exclusion, mental illness is a profound health and social need that requires an integrated policy approach (Shepherd 2007). In the past, mental health models of support for people with acute mental illness have ...
Keeping Australia's older workers in the labour force. A policy perspective.(1)(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Introduction As in other western industrialised countries the proportion of older Australians is rising. While structural ageing is not yet as pronounced as it is in Europe, this changing demographic profile has significant labour market implications. Population projections ...
Back at the crossroads: the slippery fish of Australian retirement income policy.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Introduction To obviate the financial losses that would otherwise accompany leaving work in old age, most countries have developed retirement income systems. These systems employ a limited range of governmental, quasi-governmental and private mechanisms which, through ...
Guest editorial.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; ... This Special Issue on Gender and Health Inequalities arose from the First National Conference on Gender and Health Inequalities hosted by the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne in June 2006. The Key Centre is a World ...
Gender in/and/of health inequalities.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Inequality has always been a fundamental interest of social science. Yet the relationship between various forms of social inequality--including gender--remains a vexing problem, not only for researchers but for people who supply health and social services, particularly to populations ...
Inequalities of gender and health 1857-1985: a long-run perspective from the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital birth cohort.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction 'Gender' and 'inequality' are both experienced as relationships. They are historical, shaped by time and place, and persisting in memory and institutions across generations. They are embodied relationships that can be measured in morbidity and mortality. Finally, ...
Walking: a gender issue?
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction Inequalities are firmly on the agendas of government and non-government organisations worldwide. Until recently the fields of health inequalities and gender and health have not intersected, however in the last few years national and international government and ...
Gender equity and women's contraception use.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction There is now voluminous evidence that being poor, having lower levels of education and working in manual, unskilled jobs is bad for your health (Draper et al. 2004). People of low socio-economic position die earlier from a range of diseases, have higher morbidity ...
State gender inequality, socioeconomic status and intimate partner violence (IPV) in India: a multilevel analysis.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important public health concern that has recently received much attention, deservedly so (Garcia-Moreno et al. 2006; Heise & Garcia-Moreno 2002; Watts & Zimmerman 2002). While the negative health consequences of IPV include ...
Who participates? Socioeconomic factors associated with women's participation in voluntary groups.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction Social capital is viewed as having the potential to enhance the health of individuals and communities (Kawachi & Berkman 2000). It has become an important concept in policies designed to tackle health inequalities, and to develop health promoting social environments ...
Women, health and housing assistance: implications in an emerging era of housing provision.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction In this issue on gender and health inequalities, we explore housing-related health inequality with a focus on women and the households that they head. Housing is a key social determinant of health (Krieger and Higgins 2002: 758; Shaw 2004: 202) and a 'significant ...
Gender and health inequalities: what are they and what can we do about them?
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction The subject of gender and health inequalities is the 'new kid on the block' in terms of the development of health policy and research in gender and health in Australia. The field has been dominated by 'gender-specific' policy (i.e. related either to women or to ...