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Exploration of the links between concepts of theoretical driving models and the international classification of functioning, disability, and health
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Numerical simulation of sliding wear for a polymer-polymer sliding contact in an automotive application
No full textConstructions of local culture and impacts on domestic violence in an Australian rural community
No full textStudies of domestic violence in rural areas have predominantly focused on barriers that keep women trapped in abusive relationships. The literature has frequently suggested that rural culture influences the incidence of domestic violence, the forms it takes, and how it is experienced. Yet there is surprisingly little research on how rural culture plays out in relationships between women and men who experience domestic violence. The study described in this paper explored local culture in a South Australian rural community and how it affected women's experiences of, and men's perpetration of, domestic violence. It found several local cultural discourses that bore on the issue, including self-reliance, pride, privacy, belonging and closeness, family, and Christianity. The power and influence of these discourses made it difficult to name and challenge domestic violence. The paper concludes with the argument that it is important to acknowledge and understand the values and beliefs of rural women and men when developing effective and appropriate responses to rural domestic violence. There is a need to move away from universal understandings of a rural culture to acknowledge discourses that have power and strength within a community so that we can sensitively challenge discourses that silence domestic violence.
A risk mitigation framework for integrated-enterprise systems implementation for the manufacturing environment
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Improving transfer of mental health care for rural and remote consumers in South Australia
No full textIn Australia, it is commonplace for tertiary mental health care to be provided
in large regional centres or metropolitan cities. Rural and remote consumers
must be transferred long distances, and this inevitably results in difficulties
with the integration of their care between primary and tertiary settings.
Because of the need to address these issues, and improve the transfer process,
a research project was commissioned by a national government department
to be conducted in South Australia. The aim of the project was to document
the experiences of mental health consumers travelling from the country to
the city for acute care and to make policy recommendations to improve
transitions of care. Six purposively sampled case studies were conducted
collecting data through semistructured interviews with consumers, country
professional and occupational groups and tertiary providers. Data were
analysed to produce themes for consumers, and country and tertiary mental
healthcare providers. The study found that consumers saw transfer to the
city for mental health care as beneficial in spite of the challenges of being
transferred over long distances, while being very unwell, and of being
separated from family and friends. Country care providers noted that the
disjointed nature of the mental health system caused problems with key
aspects of transfer of care including transport and information flow, and
achieving integration between the primary and tertiary settings. Improving
transfer of care involves overcoming the systemic barriers to integration and
moving to a primary care-led model of care. The distance consultation and
liaison model provided by the Rural and Remote Mental Health Services, the
major tertiary provider of services for country consumers, uses a primary
care-led approach and was highly regarded by research participants.
Extending the use of this model to other primary mental healthcare
providers and tertiary facilities will improve transfer of care.
