Development and implementation of a national online application system for cross-jurisdictional linked data

The Population Health Research Network (PHRN) is an Australian national data linkage infrastructure that links a wide range of health and human services data in privacy-preserving ways. The data linkage infrastructure enables researchers to apply for access to routinely collected, linked, administrative data from the six states and two territories which make up the Commonwealth of Australia, as well as data collected by the Australian Government. The PHRN is a distributed network where data is collected and managed at the respective jurisdictional and/or cross-jurisdictional levels. As a result, access to linked data from multiple jurisdictions requires complex approval processes. This paper describes Australia's approach to enabling access to linked data from multiple jurisdictions. It covers the identification of, and agreement to, a minimum set of data items to be included in a unified national application form, the development and implementation of a national online application system and the harmonisation of business processes for cross-jurisdictional research projects. Utilisation of the online application system and the ongoing challenges of data linkage across jurisdictions are discussed. Changes to the data custodian and ethics committee approval criteria were out of scope for this project

Anticoagulant Related Nephropathy and Clinical Considerations

Anticoagulant Related Nephropathy and Clinical Considerations, Galina Mikhalina, MD, Attending Nephrologist, Unity Hospital, Nephrology Associates at Unit

Wives and Witches of the Thrice-Tenth Kingdom: Translation Politics and Gender Discourses in Belarusian Fairytales

Belarusian magic folktales are embedded in gender discourses that can uphold social norms or disrupt hegemonic ideals. I translate eighteen wondertales from Belarusian to English, reflecting on the politics of translation. Coding the tales for gender performance and narrative function, I find that these stories uphold patriarchal models of women as nurturing and obedient mothers/men as agentic and protective characters, marriage as a key goal and the fulfillment of adult life, and motherhood as essential to appropriate femininity. Villains and witches are marked by their failure to correctly perform their gender or comply to expectations of marriage and motherhood, and are punished for this by the narrative. Using reparative interpretation methods, however, I find that these same tales offer opportunities for feminist and queer readings through unusual representations of gender and queer marriages. Belarusian wondertales, though influenced by their context, are dynamic and open to many interpretations of gender discourses as they are told, re-told, and translated across national borders

African Philosophy of Education in the Search of Sense

In the article specificity and modern problems of African Philosophy of Education are presented. The special attention is given the concept «ubuntu», playing important role as in African Philosophy of Education as in African philosophical discourse