The Impact of Regularity of Primary Care on Emergency Department Presentations and Hospital Admissions

This thesis examines the impact of regular contacts with the general practitioner, and continuity of care with the same general practitioner, on use of hospital and emergency department services among patients with chronic conditions. Through analysing existing clinical and administrative health data, this thesis assesses several causal pathways by which primary care may influence downstream hospitalisation outcomes, and expands upon existing research in this area through testing alternative research designs and analysis methods

Repositioning Students in Initial Teacher Preparation: A Comparative Descriptive Analysis of Learning to Teach for Social Justice in the United States and in England

Discussions of learning to teach for social justice generally focus on the social commitments, institutional structures, course content, and pedagogical processes that support prospective teachers. Missing from this array of foci is a consideration of how school students are positioned within teacher preparation and how their positioning and participation can inform prospective teachers’ preparation to teach for social justice. In this article, the authors present a comparative descriptive analysis of two projects, one based in the United States and one based in England, that provide opportunities through which prospective secondary teachers are prepared to teach for social justice through direct dialogue with secondary students focused on issues of teaching and learning

Repositioning Students in Initial Teacher Preparation: A Comparative Descriptive Analysis of Learning to Teach for Social Justice in the United States and in England

Discussions of learning to teach for social justice generally focus on the social commitments, institutional structures, course content, and pedagogical processes that support prospective teachers. Missing from this array of foci is a consideration of how school students are positioned within teacher preparation and how their positioning and participation can inform prospective teachers’ preparation to teach for social justice. In this article, the authors present a comparative descriptive analysis of two projects, one based in the United States and one based in England, that provide opportunities through which prospective secondary teachers are prepared to teach for social justice through direct dialogue with secondary students focused on issues of teaching and learning

Promoting collaborative practice and reciprocity in initial teacher education: realising a ‘dialogic space’ through video capture analysis

This paper explores the potential of video capture to generate a collaborative space for teacher preparation; a space in which traditional hierarchies and boundaries between actors (student teacher, school mentor and university tutor) and knowledge (academic, professional and practical) are disrupted. The study, based in a teacher education department in an English university, is contextualised in the policy context of school–university partnerships. Video capture is used as a vehicle to promote dialogue and collaborative practice between partners during school-based elements of a teacher preparation course. Analysis highlights the power of this space to promote reciprocal learning across the partnership

The home independence program with non-health professionals as care managers: An evaluation

The Home Independence Program (HIP), an Australian restorative home care/reablement service for older adults, has been shown to be effective in reducing functional dependency and increasing functional mobility, confidence in everyday activities, and quality of life. These gains were found to translate into a reduced need for ongoing care services and reduced health and aged care costs over time. Despite these positive outcomes, few Australian home care agencies have adopted the service model – a key reason being that few Australian providers employ health professionals, who act as care managers under the HIP service model. A call for proposals from Health Workforce Australia for projects to expand the scope of practice of health/aged care staff then provided the opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate a service delivery model, in which nonprofessionals replaced the health professionals as Care Managers in the HIP service. Seventy older people who received the HIP Coordinator (HIPC) service participated in the outcomes evaluation. On a range of personal outcome measures, the group showed statistically significant improvement at 3 and 12 months compared to baseline. On each outcome, the improvement observed was larger than that observed in a previous trial in which the service was delivered by health professionals.However, differences in the timing of data collection between the two studies mean that a direct comparison cannot be made. Clients in both studies showed a similarly reduced need for ongoing home care services at both follow-up points. The outcomes achieved by HIPC, with non-health professionals as Care Managers, were positive and can be considered to compare favorably with the outcomes achieved in HIP when health professionals take the Care Manager role. These findings will be of interest to managers of home care services and to policy makers interested in reducing the long-term care needs of older community dwelling individuals

Shockwork and Leisure. Youth labour action ethnography 1945.-1990.

Nakana ovog rada bila je sagledati pitanje važnosti fenomena omladinskih radnih akcija za formiranje kako (jugoslavenskog) čovjeka tako i društva. Kao glavnu misao postavili smo razumijevanje fenomena ORA ne samo kao inicijatora dobrovoljnog (visokoproduktivnog) rada već i internacionalizacije i turističkih kretanja na prostorima bivše države kroz prizmu povijesno - političkih promjena komparirajući ga s sličnim fenomenima današnjice u svrhu detektiranja potencijala ove idejne paradigme u službi sutrašnjice. Unutar dokolice ORA izdvojila se glazba kao jedan od najsnažnijih pokretača društvene promjene te (konstruktivna) metoda „odgoja” mladih. Stoga su se „isječci“ iz jugoslavenske glazbene scene izdvojili kao važni za razumijevanje razvoja kulture mladih i društva općenito. Ono što se željelo postići jest prepoznavanje pozitivnih učinaka (omladinskih) radnih akcija te njihovo redefiniranje u okvirima današnjice s ciljem potencijalnog razvoja kako kulturnog turizma tako i kulture dobrovoljnog rada na područjima današnje države. Time je razmatranje, a onda i kontekstualiziranje problema (su)odnosa država - društvo unutar ovog rada bazirano na triangulaciji jučer - danas - sutra. Što smo naučili iz primjera dobre prakse prošlosti komparirali smo s primjerima iz sadašnjosti te dali svoju viziju za budućnost.The aim of this paper was to examine the importance of the youth work phenomenon for both formation of (Yugoslav) man as well as its society. The main idea was to understand the phenomenon not only as the initiator of (high - productive) voluntary work but also as an originator of internationalization and tourism trends in the former state through the prism of historical and political changes. In order to detect phenomenon’s future potentiality we’ve compared it with the affined nowadays occurrences. Within youth work action’s leisure time music was set as one of the most powerful social change initiator and a (constructive) youth „education” method. Therefore the Yugoslav music scene „clips" were identified as important for understanding the development of youth culture and society in general. The intent of the paper was also to recognize the positive (youth) work action outcomes and to redefine them within the present day framework with the idea of potential development of both cultural tourism and voluntary work within current state borders. Therefore deliberation as well as contextualization of the paper’s idea bonded on relation state - society is based on triangulation yesterday - today - tomorrow. What we’ve learned from the past good practice examples we’ve compared with present samples and gave our vision for the future

Shockwork and Leisure. Youth labour action ethnography 1945.-1990.

Nakana ovog rada bila je sagledati pitanje važnosti fenomena omladinskih radnih akcija za formiranje kako (jugoslavenskog) čovjeka tako i društva. Kao glavnu misao postavili smo razumijevanje fenomena ORA ne samo kao inicijatora dobrovoljnog (visokoproduktivnog) rada već i internacionalizacije i turističkih kretanja na prostorima bivše države kroz prizmu povijesno - političkih promjena komparirajući ga s sličnim fenomenima današnjice u svrhu detektiranja potencijala ove idejne paradigme u službi sutrašnjice. Unutar dokolice ORA izdvojila se glazba kao jedan od najsnažnijih pokretača društvene promjene te (konstruktivna) metoda „odgoja” mladih. Stoga su se „isječci“ iz jugoslavenske glazbene scene izdvojili kao važni za razumijevanje razvoja kulture mladih i društva općenito. Ono što se željelo postići jest prepoznavanje pozitivnih učinaka (omladinskih) radnih akcija te njihovo redefiniranje u okvirima današnjice s ciljem potencijalnog razvoja kako kulturnog turizma tako i kulture dobrovoljnog rada na područjima današnje države. Time je razmatranje, a onda i kontekstualiziranje problema (su)odnosa država - društvo unutar ovog rada bazirano na triangulaciji jučer - danas - sutra. Što smo naučili iz primjera dobre prakse prošlosti komparirali smo s primjerima iz sadašnjosti te dali svoju viziju za budućnost.The aim of this paper was to examine the importance of the youth work phenomenon for both formation of (Yugoslav) man as well as its society. The main idea was to understand the phenomenon not only as the initiator of (high - productive) voluntary work but also as an originator of internationalization and tourism trends in the former state through the prism of historical and political changes. In order to detect phenomenon’s future potentiality we’ve compared it with the affined nowadays occurrences. Within youth work action’s leisure time music was set as one of the most powerful social change initiator and a (constructive) youth „education” method. Therefore the Yugoslav music scene „clips" were identified as important for understanding the development of youth culture and society in general. The intent of the paper was also to recognize the positive (youth) work action outcomes and to redefine them within the present day framework with the idea of potential development of both cultural tourism and voluntary work within current state borders. Therefore deliberation as well as contextualization of the paper’s idea bonded on relation state - society is based on triangulation yesterday - today - tomorrow. What we’ve learned from the past good practice examples we’ve compared with present samples and gave our vision for the future

GrameneMart: the BioMart data portal for the Gramene project

Gramene is a well-established resource for plant comparative genome analysis. Data are generated through automated and curated analyses and made available through web interfaces such as GrameneMart. The Gramene project was an early adopter of the BioMart software, which remains an integral and well-used component of the Gramene website. BioMart accessible data sets include plant gene annotations, plant variation catalogues, genetic markers, physical mapping entities, public DNA/mRNA sequences of various types and curated quantitative trait loci for various species. Database URL: http://www.gramene.org/biomart/martview