The author focuses on one occupational area—mining—and suggests some implications of the available evidence of women's entry to this male bastion of work and power in society. Two…
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The author focuses on one occupational area—mining—and suggests some implications of the available evidence of women's entry to this male bastion of work and power in society. Two key areas are: the need to enforce national standards in the labour market to remove discrimination against admitting women to “male” occupations and the development of positive‐discriminatory training for women currently under‐represented in or barred from a male‐dominated employment sector.
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Instinctive pragmatism, or planning by conviction rather than by coherence, is the hallmark of the government of education. We regularly devise new policies in a highly specific…
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Instinctive pragmatism, or planning by conviction rather than by coherence, is the hallmark of the government of education. We regularly devise new policies in a highly specific context (usually in the wake of a national report), and then negotiate their application in later circumstances in which many of the original suppositions, criteria and corollaries have been shed — either for educational or financial reasons, sometimes beyond our control. The Diploma in Higher Education is, in my view, in danger of following earlier casualties in this process; as we gradually change the educational criteria, and succumb to the recurrent financial crises which appear to follow all of our developmental White Papers with an inexorability which the Eumenides might have envied.
The University Women of Europe (IWE) co‐ordinates the associations of Women Graduates in the various European countries and is part of the worldwide International Federation of…
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The University Women of Europe (IWE) co‐ordinates the associations of Women Graduates in the various European countries and is part of the worldwide International Federation of University Women (IFUW). The British Federation of Women Graduates or British Federation of University Women as it was known until 1992 was founded in the 1900s and was a founder member of IFUW and the regional organisation University Women in Europe (UWE).
The Directory of Selected Women's Research and Policy Centers deals with activities and research directions of 28 centres. The 24 page directory discusses current and recently…
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The Directory of Selected Women's Research and Policy Centers deals with activities and research directions of 28 centres. The 24 page directory discusses current and recently completed research projects. They are organised by centre and by subject. For a copy send $4 to WREI, 204 Fourth Street SE, Washington, DC 20003, USA.
The London Office. The Commission has offices throughout the world in such places as Venezuela, Japan, Canada, the USA, as well as in Europe, where besides the nine Member States…
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The London Office. The Commission has offices throughout the world in such places as Venezuela, Japan, Canada, the USA, as well as in Europe, where besides the nine Member States there are also information offices in Spain, Portugal and Greece.
Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover…
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Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.
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AT the moment of writing this country is suffering — we had almost added “as always!” — from a plethora of strikes continuing, strikes near settlement, and new strikes pending. In…
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AT the moment of writing this country is suffering — we had almost added “as always!” — from a plethora of strikes continuing, strikes near settlement, and new strikes pending. In some sector or other there appears to be continuing conflict in industry. Peace, when eventually it comes, is fragile and fleeting.
Agnieszka Sobolewska, Amy-Louise Byrne, Clare Lynette Harvey, Eileen Willis, Adele Baldwin, Sandy McLellan and David Heard
The purpose of the paper is to explore how the national, state and organisational health policies in Australia support the implementation of person-centred care in managing…
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Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to explore how the national, state and organisational health policies in Australia support the implementation of person-centred care in managing chronic care conditions.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative content analysis was performed regarding the national, state and organisational Queensland Health policies using Elo and Kyngas' (2008) framework.
Findings
Although the person-centred care as an approach is well articulated in health policies, there is still no definitive measure or approach to embedding it into operational services. Complex funding structures and competing priorities of the governments and the health organisations carry the risk that person-centred care as an approach gets lost in translation. Three themes emerged: the patient versus the government; health care delivery versus the political agenda; and health care organisational processes versus the patient.
Research limitations/implications
Given that person-centred care is the recommended approach for responding to chronic health conditions, further empirical research is required to evaluate how programs designed to deliver person-centred care achieve that objective in practice.
Practical implications
This research highlights the complex environment in which the person-centred approach is implemented. Short-term programmes created specifically to focus on person-centred care require the right organisational infrastructure, support and direction. This review demonstrates the need for alignment of policies related to chronic disease management at the broader organisational level.
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Given the introduction of the nurse navigator program to take up a person-centred care approach, the review of the recent policies was undertaken to understand how they support this initiative.
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Julie Stubbs, Sophie Russell, Eileen Baldry, David Brown, Chris Cunneen and Melanie Schwartz