Canada is 1.5 times the size of Australia. Australia's population of 20 million is located principally on the east coast. Like Canada, the Australia has a federal system of Government with 5 States and two territories. Each State and territory has its own legislation on mental health. The ...
Service improvements have been uneven across Australia. Some people with schizophrenia in psychiatric crisis have had difficulty accessing either home-based acute psychiatric treatment or acute psychiatric beds. Social isolation and lack of meaningful occupation continue to be a problem for people with ...
Such applications can be regionally implemented and provide sustainable health system decision support tools, digital infrastructure and service innovation. The implementation will be applied in eight geographically diverse sites across Australia (2 sites per year). This Program will facilitate regions to ...
Racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity in Australia is rapidly increasing. Although Indigenous Australians account for only approximately 3.5% of the country’s population, over 50% of Australians were born overseas or have at least one migran
Sport 2030, Sport Australia's blueprint for sport over the next 11 years, cites athlete wellbeing, including mental health, as one of its key priorities. The announcement coincided with Dane Bird-Smith, a race walker who won gold in 2018's Commonwealth Games, went public with his own menta...
CJ Rudd - 《Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia》 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 Mental health economics, health service provision, and the practice of geriatric psychiatry. PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Economic evaluation is becoming more and more important as a means to assist policy mak...
second careers in what is – unfortunately – a guaranteed growth area of need. In the same way that mature aged adults are encouraged to re-train as teachers in the UK under the NowTeach initiative, the same strategy could be implemented for counsellors and p...
Several major policy initiatives have been undertaken in Victoria, Australia's second-largest state, to address difficulties in providing accessible and culturally sensitive mental health services to ethnic minorities. These initiatives include the development and publication of a policy statement, alteration...
INTRODUCTION: In Australia, recent changes in mental health emergency care (MHEC) service delivery models highlight the need for clinicians to increase their knowledge and skills in mental health. A workplace training program was developed and implemented across the state of New South Wales (NSW) ...
"Mental health care is a pillar of the publicly-funded health care system in Australia and the low use of publicly-funded services among those living inresidential aged careis indicative of major barriers to service access and uptake," says Dr. Cations. "These barriers, many of which were ra...