Steering without navigation equipment: the lamentable state of Australian health policy reform

Steering without navigation equipment This paper comments on some issues of particular concern to Australian health policy makers and some areas needing urgent reform. The two sets of issues do not overlap. It is suggested that there are two fundamental reasons for this. The first is the failure to develop governance structures which promote the identification and resolution of problems according to their importance. The second and related failure is the failure to equip the health services industry with satisfactory navigation equipment – independent research capacity, independent reporting and evaluation – on a scale commensurate with the needs of the country’s largest industry. These two failures together deprive the health system – as a system – of the chief driver of progress in every successful industry in the 20th Century. Concluding comment is made on the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission which, to date, appears to be following the tradition of ad hoc ‘dab ’ reform aimed, apparently, at one-off improvement rather than the creation of an adaptive, self correcting system, proactively seeking system improvement. The proposals fail to make error learning a central part of ongoing reform

Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing

About this book The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene. Similarly the growing role of health professionals as brokers of public safety means that the need for scholarly resources for developing knowledge and broadening theoretical positioning and questioning is becoming urgent and crucial. The fields of law enforcement and public health are beginning to understand the inextricable links between public safety and public health and the need to shift policies and practices towards more integrated practices. This book comes as a first, an utterly timely scholarly collection that brings together the views of multidisciplinary commentators on a wide range of issues and disciplines within the law enforcement and public health (LEPH) arena. The book addresses the more conceptual aspects of the relationship as well as more applied fields of collaboration, and the authors describe and analyze a range of service delivery examples taken from real-life instances of partnerships in action. Among the topics covered: .​Defund, Dismantle or Define .Law Enforcement, Public Health, and Vulnerability .Law Enforcement and Mental Health: The Missing Middle .The Challenges of Sustaining Partnerships and the Diversification of Cultures .Using Public Health Concepts and Metrics to Guide Policing Strategy and Practice .Policing Pandemics Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing is essential reading for a wide array of professions and areas of expertise in the intersectoral field of LEPH. It is an indispensable resource for public health and law enforcement specialists (practitioners, educators, scholars, and researchers) and training programs across the world, as well as individuals interested in developing their knowledge and capacity to respond to complex LEPH issues in the field, including public prosecutors, coroners, and the judiciary. The text also can be used for undergraduate and postgraduate university policing, criminology, sociology, psychology, social work, public health, and medicine programs

Investigating alternative RNA splicing in Xenopus.

International audienceAlternative splicing, the process by which distinct mature mRNAs can be produced from a single primary transcript, is a key mechanism to increase the organism complexity. The generation of alternative splicing pattern is a means to expand the proteome diversity and also to control gene expression through the regulation of mRNA abundance. Alternative splicing is therefore particularly prevalent during development and accordingly numerous splicing events are regulated in a tissue or temporal manner. To study the roles of alternative splicing during developmental processes and decipher the molecular mechanisms that underlie temporal and spatial regulation, it is important to develop in vivo whole animal studies. In this chapter, we present the advantages of using the amphibian Xenopus as a fully in vivo model to study alternative splicing and we describe the experimental procedures that can be used with Xenopus laevis embryos and oocytes to define the cis-regulatory elements and identify the associated trans-acting factors