scholarly journals Collecting and using Aboriginal health information in New South Wales

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela L Todd ◽  
Michael S Frommer ◽  
Sandra Bailey ◽  
John L Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
South Wales

Use of Queensland Hospital Services by Interstate and Overseas Visitors

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Walker ◽  
Jeffrey Wilks ◽  
Ian Ring ◽  
Jennifer Nicol ◽  
Brian Oldenburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Detection Rate ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Hospital Services ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
Detection Rates ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Patient Load

In response to concerns about the number of interstate and overseas visitors using Queensland hospital services, the present study examined a sample of 1,295 hospital records to determine the proportion of patients who were incorrectly identified as Queensland residents. Across six hospitals the overall detection rate was 4.6%. Rates varied between hospitals, with the highest detection recorded for Goondiwindi near the Queensland/New South Wales border; and the lowest for Prince Charles in Brisbane. There were also important variations across hospitals based on specific holiday periods. In particular, Goondiwindi and the Gold Coast had substantially higher detection rates for the Christmas holiday period (December-January) than for the mid-year period (June-August). These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for hospital services, especially lost revenue and increased patient load. Health information managers are identified as a key group for addressing some of the current problems in this area.

Lake Mungo

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Wright
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Aboriginal Child ◽  
South Wales ◽  
A Site ◽  
Aboriginal Health Worker

Lake Mungo, in New South Wales, is the home of the first known people in this country. Here, the oldest known evidence of Aboriginal people in Australia has been found. Because of its importance, it is a site which everyone should know about. To give us a feeling for Lake Mungo, Billy Reid, the illustrator of The Aboriginal Health Worker and The Aboriginal Child at School, came with me on a trip. We travelled west to the Darling River (whose Aboriginal name is Calewatta), and then south-east to Lake Mungo itself. Billy made wonderful drawings to represent the deeds and everyday life of those people. This can be reconstructed from the fossil evidence found at Lake Mungo. He has also drawn some scenes of life along the banks of the Calewatta - the river which is Billy’s own home. He hails from Bourke.

scholarly journals Assessing societal and offender perspectives on the value of offender healthcare: a stated preference research protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. e024899
Author(s):  
Stella Nalukwago Settumba ◽  
Marian Shanahan ◽  
Georgina, M Chambers ◽  
Peter Schofield ◽  
Tony Butler
Keyword(s):  
Stated Preference ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Violent Offender ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Human Research Ethics ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Economic Methods

IntroductionThe increasing burden that offenders place on justice and health budgets necessitates better methods to determine the benefits of and value society places on offender programmes to guide policy regarding resource allocation. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how economic methods will be used to determine the strength of preferences and value of violent offender treatment programmes from the perspectives of offenders, their families and the general population.Methods and analysisTwo stated preference economic methods, discrete choice experiment (DCE) and contingent valuation (CV), will be used to assess society’s and offenders' value of treatment programmes. The mixed methods process involves a literature review and qualitative methods to derive attributes and levels for the DCE and payment card values for the CV. Consensus building approaches of voting, ranking and the Delphi method will be used to further refine the findings from the qualitative phase. Attributes and their levels will be used in a D-efficient Bayesian experimental design to derive choice scenarios for the development of a questionnaire that will also include CV questions. Finally, quantitative surveys to assess societal preferences and value in terms of willingness to pay will be conducted.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval for this study was obtained from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Human Research Ethics Committee, Corrective Services New South Wales Ethics Committee and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council ethics committee. The findings will be made available on the Kirby Institute UNSW website, published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences.

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