Heterosexual partner acquisition rates in the Australian population

Sexual Health ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas F. H. Tothill ◽  
Anthony M. A. Smith ◽  
David G. Regan
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Epidemiological Models ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Heterosexual Partner ◽  
Acquisition Rates

The rate of partner acquisition in a population is an important parameter when constructing epidemiological models of sexually transmissible infections. We have analysed the results of a survey of the sexual behaviour of the Australian population to estimate how many people have acquired no new partner, one, two or at least three new partners in the past year, and hence estimated heterosexual partner acquisition rates for the population by gender and age band. Partner acquisition rates are ~0.5 new partners per year for 16- to 19-year-olds, peak at ~0.7 in the 20- to 24-year-old age band, and then decline steadily with age to ~0.2 per year. In all age bands, there are more male respondents reporting three or more new partners in the last year than what is consistent with the rest of the data, which could be interpreted as evidence of an additional population stratum characterised by higher partner acquisition rates.

Estimating the cost of pure cybercrime to Australian individuals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coen Teunissen ◽  
Isabella Voce
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Population Estimates ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Probability Sampling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Panels ◽  
The Cost

This report estimates the cost of pure cybercrime to individuals in Australia in 2019. A survey was administered to a sample of 11,840 adults drawn from two online panels—one using probability sampling and the other non-probability sampling—with the resulting data weighted to better reflect the distribution of the wider Australian population. Thirty-four percent of respondents had experienced some form of pure cybercrime, with 14 percent being victimised in the last 12 months. This is equivalent to nearly 6.7 million Australian adults having ever been the victim of pure cybercrime, and 2.8 million Australians being victimised in the past year. Drawing on these population estimates, the total economic impact of pure cybercrime in 2019 was approximately $3.5b. This encompasses $1.9b in money directly lost by victims, $597m spent dealing with the consequences of victimisation, and $1.4b spent on prevention costs. Victims recovered $389m.

scholarly journals Introduction: Framing Economic Exclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Jim Ogg ◽  
Michal Myck
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Exclusion ◽  
The Face ◽  
Older Citizens ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

AbstractEconomic exclusion is a multidimensional concept that has particular relevance in the context of ageing populations and globalised economies. Sustaining adequate incomes in old age and protecting older citizens from poverty are major challenges for governments and policy makers and they have been amplified in the face of the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past few decades most countries have made adjustments to their pension systems and other welfare related policies that concern older citizens, and these reforms have already had and will continue to have a differential impact on economic exclusion. For some, extending the working life and pushing back the legal age of retirement can be a safeguard against inadequate incomes in old age, while for others who are excluded from the labour market, or who are working in low paid jobs, economic exclusion remains a reality. The labour market implications of the pandemic are likely to exacerbate this risk for those whose situation was already fragile before the crisis.

Philosophy in France

Philosophy ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 10 (39) ◽  
pp. 355-359
Author(s):  
M. Bergson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Actual World ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food And Drink

It is precision, M. Bergson suggests in his last book,1that has most been lacking in philosophy. Imprecision declares itself in two respects: philosophical systems of the past apply indifferently to many imaginary worlds, and so allows this actual world to slip through their meshes; and they ignore the sense or direction evinced in the order and process of this actual world. Such systems “do not fit the reality in which we live, but are too large for it. Any of them would apply equally well to a world in which plants, animals, and men did not exist, or one in which men went without food and drink and did not sleep or dream or rave, to a world in which men were born decrepit and suckled in old age … Such systems of conceptions are so abstract, consequently so vast, that they can be made to hold everything possible alongside the real”. That we should interpret them always with an eye on this actual world and so regard them as being literal transcriptions of the actual is a witness to the practical bias of our thinking and a quite arbitrary reading of them. Contrasted with these highly abstract systems, M. Bergson claims that his own explanation “adheres to its object” and leaves no gap in which an alternative one could find foothold.

scholarly journals Sexual dysfunction in old age

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 270-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Ludovic Phanjoo
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Male Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Subject

The sexual behaviour of older people is more often the target of jocularity or ridicule than the subject of serious scientific research. As a consequence, relatively little is known about the sexual behaviour of the over-65s and such information as is available shows a polarisation according to gender, male sexual behaviour and dysfunction being viewed very much in the light of physical problems, whereas women's sexual behaviour revolves around attitudes towards sexuality and the psychological effects of ageing. This review will address the biological changes associated with ageing, the psychological and social concomitants, the prevalence of sexual dysfunction, its aetiological factors, and the management of common sexual problems including those found in an institutional setting.

scholarly journals Saving for Retirement: A Review of Ethnic Minorities in the UK

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orla Gough ◽  
Roberta Adami
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Family Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private Savings ◽  
The Uk ◽  
White Control

This article examines the saving behaviour of ethnic minorities in the UK. Within the context of pension planning, we investigate saving for retirement patterns in relation to ethnicity, gender and age. We use data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) to analyse employment status, income, saving types and levels. Although we find profound heterogeneity, ethnic minorities show higher levels of unemployment, lower income and consistently lower levels of saving for retirement compared to our white control group. Disadvantages of ethnic minorities during their working life persist, especially for women, although to a lesser extent than in the past, and continue to affect private savings and prospective retirement income. Indian and Chinese men have experienced the greatest improvements in terms of employment status and income and this is reflected in higher levels of saving for retirement since the mid 1990s.

50 years: man and boy in the Royal Naval Medical Service

2017 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
D Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThis article details some of my experiences as part of a 50-year career in or working for the Royal Naval Medical Service (RNMS), that started in 1966 when England last won the World Cup. In such a long career (29 years in uniform and 21 in the Civil Service), I have seen many changes to the RNMS itself and I hope that I can portray these, although with long service comes old age and all the frailties this encompasses. I currently work as a Specialist Instructional Officer in the Institute of Naval Medicine (INM) where I have been for the past 28 years.

Catherine's Retinue: Old Age, Fashion, and Historicism in the Nineteenth Century

Slavic Review ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 782-803
Author(s):  
Luba Golburt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
Queen Of Spades

Beside her political and cultural legacy, Catherine II bequeathed to the nineteenth century a certain striking image of the body and spirit of the eighteenth: an aging aristocratic lady, inflexible in her behavioral routines and visibly unaware of historical change. This image was codified by Aleksandr Pushkin in The Queen of Spades and, much later, satirized by Ivan Turgenev in several of his novels. Highlighting the recurrence of these copies of Catherine the Great in nineteenth-century Russian prose, Luba Golburt interprets the narrative and historical implications of fashion and aging in this period that was fascinated with historical knowledge and imagination. The persistence of the past embodied by these figures posed a challenge to the otherwise widely embraced Hegelian notions of progress, underscoring the repetitive and ritualistic rhythms of historical experience. These figures also extended the realist narrative's historical scope and made possible a range of polyphonous temporal structures.

scholarly journals The Origins of the British Welfare State

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-433
Author(s):  
Pat Thane
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Precise Quantification ◽  
British State ◽  
The Welfare State

George Boyer’s The Winding Road to the Welfare State, which traces the shift in Britain from the early nineteenth-century Poor Law to the post-1945 welfare state, is strongest and most useful in its analysis of the labor market in relation to poverty and insecurity and in its precise quantification of wages, poverty, insecurity, and public relief. It is much weaker when discussing how politics and public opinion shaped social policies; overlooking important areas of British state welfare, the book focuses upon unemployment and old-age policies. Nor is the book really about “Britain.” Most of the statistics and analyses refer to England and occasionally Wales. Scotland, with its different economic, administrative, and legal structures, though constitutionally in Britain, is barely mentioned. Notwithstanding Boyer’s contributions to the picture of how the British welfare state emerged, his version of Britain’s “winding road” falls short of the descriptions and analyses that many British publications have already provided within the past thirty years.

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