scholarly journals A survey of rehabilitation services in Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K Graham ◽  
Ian D Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
New South ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Nursing Services ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Catchment Areas

A survey, which achieved a 54% response rate, was completed to assess the availability and type of rehabilitation health services in Australia. 1044 surveys were sent out and 561 were returned. The details of a total of 346 rehabilitation services were obtained. There were more services in metropolitan compared with rural areas, more services in New South Wales and Victoria than in the other states, and a higher proportion of services led by health care workers other than rehabilitation physicians in rural compared with metropolitan areas. There is likely to be a need for additional rehabilitation services of all types across Australia. The majority of rural, regional and remote areas are likely to need additional physician-led, allied health and nursing services. Further work is needed to assess the size and catchment areas of services in the capital cities and other large population centres to assess whether additional services are also needed in these areas.

scholarly journals Comparing the Caries Prevalence between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Remote New South Wales, Australia: A Cross Sectional Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Parental Consent ◽  
Caries Prevalence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
Aboriginal Children

Objective: To compare the caries prevalence between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children two to five years of age. Methods: A sample of young Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children from remote New South Wales Australia was recruited. Children with parental consent participated in dental examinations which were undertaken by one calibrated examiner who recorded the decayed, missing and filled teeth/surfaces. Results: 268 children were examined. The decayed missing and filled teeth scores were significantly higher for Aboriginal children (p =<0.01). Most Aboriginal Children examined had decayed teeth (n= 55, 52.4%) unlike non-Aboriginal participants (n = 27, 16.6%). Conclusion: Aboriginal children in remote areas of New South Wales have a significantly higher prevalence of dental caries when compared with their non-Aboriginal peers.

Too close for comfort: journalists’ ethical challenges in regional Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2096746
Author(s):  
Jane Stephens (Fynes-Clinton) ◽  
Rosanna Natoli ◽  
Michele Gilchrist
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
News Media ◽  
New South ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
Regional Australia

Staff and budget cutbacks and systemic changes in news media have been widely documented by journalists and scholars, and this qualitative study aims to understand the empirical experience of journalists outside the cities, where isolation, small staff, tight budgets and close communities are the rule. This article reports on part of a study that investigated the experience of journalists in remote and regional media outlets in Queensland and New South Wales. This article explores the more pointed ethical difficulties journalists experience in regional areas, finding these conundrums add layers to decision-making and complexity in the source–journalist relationships. Journalists in regional and remote areas report feeling pressure to take shortcuts in their story writing due to time restraints, to sensationalise or angle stories to suit management agendas, or to write clickbait headlines. They identified these as challenges to their professional practice.

Conservation of wetlands in the Paroo and Warrego River catchments in arid Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Kingsford ◽  
Rachael F. Thomas ◽  
Alison L. Curtin
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
New South ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Wetland Area ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Small Parts ◽  
Further Development ◽  
River Catchments

Irrigation proposals to divert water from the Paroo and Warrego Rivers in arid Australia will affect their aquatic ecosystems. These two are the last of 26 major rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin without large dams and diversions. Knowledge of the extent of their biodiversity value is critical to assessing likely impacts. During the 1990 flood, 1.73 million ha of wetlands, or 12.5% of the land surface of the Paroo and Warrego River catchments, were flooded. Flooded wetland area in the respective catchments was 781 330 ha and 890 534 ha. Most of the wetland area (97%) was floodplain, with 37 freshwater lakes (>50 ha) occupying 2.5% of the wetland area and 177 salt lakes covering 0.8%. A high diversity and abundance of biota depend on these wetlands. Only 7% of the wetland area, all in the Paroo catchment, is in conservation reserves. New South Wales has a high proportion of the wetland area on the Paroo (60%) and a substantial proportion of the wetland area on the Warrego River (23%). Queensland, the upstream state, will influence the ecology of the entire catchment areas of both river systems through its proposed water management plan. Any resulting extraction practices will have detrimental ecological consequences within a decade. Conservation of wetlands is usually site-focused and reflects a paradigm of conservation based on reservation of parcels of land. However, wetlands are dependent on water that is seldom adequately protected. Intergovernment co-operation should protect the entire catchment of the Paroo River from major diversions and stop further development on the Warrego River. This would do more for the conservation of wetlands than the formal reservation of small parts of their catchments.

scholarly journals Post-fire recovery of eastern bristlebirds (Dasyornis brachypterus) is context-dependent

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Bain ◽  
J. R. Baker ◽  
K. O. French ◽  
R. J. Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
New South ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Fire Intensity ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Burnt Areas ◽  
In Fire

In late December 2003, a wildfire in the Jervis Bay region of New South Wales burned through an area that previously supported a large population of the endangered eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus). The eastern bristlebird has been described as fire-sensitive, and fire is implicated in the decline of the species. The frequency of occurrence of bristlebirds was investigated in the second week after the fire in a range of sites varying in fire intensity. Bristlebirds were found in burned habitats but were less common in the sites that were more intensely burnt. Bristlebirds had been surveyed along transects in this area two months before this fire and were surveyed again 1, 9 and 13 months after the fire. Compared with prefire numbers, bristlebird numbers decreased in burnt areas after the fire and increased in unburnt areas. This pattern was evident for up to nine months after the fire, after which bristlebird numbers returned towards prefire levels in both burnt and unburnt vegetation. This is in contrast to some previous research on bristlebirds and fire. We suggest that bristlebirds avoided the fire by moving to unburnt areas and returned later when conditions were more suitable. We consider that the apparently slight impact of this fire on bristlebirds was due to the close proximity of unburnt habitat and other refuges. The response of bristlebirds and presumably other birds to fire is likely to be strongly context-dependent, so fire management may be able to be designed so as to be compatible with the conservation of local bristlebird populations.

scholarly journals Preschool attendance and early childhood development outcomes in the first year of school for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales, Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikaela Jorgensen ◽  
Kathleen Falster ◽  
Mark Hanly ◽  
Sharon Goldfeld ◽  
Louisa Jorm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
First Year ◽  
Preschool Attendance ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Starting School ◽  
Aboriginal Children

ABSTRACT ObjectivesA key target to reduce the gap in early childhood outcomes between Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children has been to increase preschool enrolment rates, particularly in remote communities. However, there is little population-based information on preschool attendance and its impact on child development for Aboriginal children specifically. This study aims to examine: (i) the characteristics of children, families and areas associated with preschool attendance; and (ii) the association between preschool attendance and childhood development in the first year of school for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW). ApproachRoutinely-collected birth registration, perinatal, health and education data were used to create a linked dataset consisting of an almost complete population of children known as the ‘Seeding Success’ cohort. These children were born in NSW and had an Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) checklist completed by their teacher in their first year of school in NSW in 2009 and 2012 (n=154,936). Multilevel Poisson regression modelling was used to determine child-, family- and area-level characteristics associated with preschool attendance in the year before starting school. The association between preschool attendance and childhood development in the first year of school, as measured across five AEDC developmental domains, was also examined. Results71% of Aboriginal children attended preschool in the year before school (95% CI: 70% to 72%) compared with 76% of non-Aboriginal children (95% CI: 76% to 77%). The prevalence of preschool attendance was lower in major cities compared with regional and remote areas, with 65% of Aboriginal children attending preschool in major cities compared with 73% in outer regional and 79% in remote areas. Factors associated with preschool attendance in the year before starting school included being non-Aboriginal, speaking English as a first language, having a mother with a partner, having fewer older siblings, living in a more remote area and living in a less socioeconomically disadvantaged area. After adjusting for potentially confounding factors, Aboriginal children who attended preschool were more likely to be developmentally ‘on track’ compared with Aboriginal children who did not attend preschool, in four of the five AEDC domains. ConclusionThe barriers to preschool attendance for Aboriginal children living in major cities should be further explored. Targeted support for families and areas where preschool attendance is lower is likely required to ensure children have access to the apparent benefits of preschool education.

scholarly journals Dietitians in New South Wales: workforce trends 1984-2000

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn Meyer ◽  
Rachelle Gilroy ◽  
Peter Williams
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Technical Support Staff

Complete surveys of the dietetic workforce in NSW were conducted in 1984 and 1991 and have now been updated with a new survey in 2000. In the nine years since 1991, the total active workforce grew by 48%. Although there were significant improvements in the ratios of hospital dietitians per 100 acute beds (from 0.88 to1.08) and dietitians per million population (from 69.7 to 96.5), the supply of dietitians does not yet reach recommended levels, especially in rural areas. Other trends were significant increases in the proportion of dietitians employed outside hospitals (to 38% in 2000) and in non-clinical work (50% in 2000), and declines in the number of technical support staff for dietitians.

Comparing the Caries Prevalence between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Remote New South Wales, Australia: A Cross Sectional Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Parental Consent ◽  
Caries Prevalence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
Aboriginal Children

Objective: To compare the caries prevalence between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children two to five years of age. Methods: A sample of young Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children from remote New South Wales Australia was recruited. Children with parental consent participated in dental examinations which were undertaken by one calibrated examiner who recorded the decayed, missing and filled teeth/surfaces. Results: 268 children were examined. The decayed missing and filled teeth scores were significantly higher for Aboriginal children (p = <0.01). Most Aboriginal children examined had decayed teeth (n= 55, 52.4%) unlike non-Aboriginal participants (n = 27, 16.6%). Conclusion: Aboriginal children in remote areas of New South Wales have a significantly higher prevalence of dental caries when compared with their non-Aboriginal peers.

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