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Alien Registration- Sheehan, Mary (Waterville, Kennebec County)
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A 0.05 BAC limit in the United States : an important challenge for policy, health and safety
No full textAlternate healing and medicine : the roles of naturopathy, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic and medical practice in the health system
No full textThis thesis is concerned with understanding the roles of four alternate healing systems and medical practice in the community's health behaviour. The four alternate systems are naturopathy, homoeopathy, osteopathy and chiropractic. The research reported developed from work supported by the Committee of Inquiry into Chiropractic, Osteopathy, Homoeopathy and Naturopathy conducted under the chairmanship of Professor E. C. Webb set up by the Australian Government in 1975.\ud
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The study concentrates on the factors which influence individual clients in their decisions to consult healers for treatment. An underlying assumption is that an analysis of the processes that effect such decisions will lead to further knowledge of the community's attitudes towards the functions of alternate healing and medicine. \ud
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A review of the historical backgrounds and current status of the four alternate healing systems leads to the conclusion that they differ in a variety of areas. These areas include treatment modalities, historical backgrounds, occupational development and rapprochement with medicine. Homoeopathy, osteopathy and chiropractic emerged as distinct approaches to healing late in the nineteenth century. Naturopathy tends to be a philosophy or style of life as much as a health system in its own right. Their relationships with medicine also vary; osteopathy and naturopathy receive some acceptance, some homoeopaths are tolerated, whilst chiropractic is ostracised and vilified.\ud
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A common paradigm of treatment underlies all four alternate approaches to healing. They all eschew the use of synthetic pharmaceuticals and invasive treatments and accept an indigenous theory of disease and a belief in the vis medicatrix naturae or the healing power of nature. An inevitable concomitant of this paradigm is that they believe that healing and health must be self-engendered. They rest within the client and his or her actions, not within the hands, skills or power of the healer.\ud
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It is these characteristics combined with the alternate healers ' claims to espouse a similar scientific rationale for their approaches, and their functioning as parallel healers to medicine, that establishes their special relationship with medicine. This relationship become s more problematic in the face of medicine's hegemony and claim to unique legitimacy as the community's sole healing system.\ud
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The interaction between these systems and medical practice can be gauged through articles related to the four alternate healing systems that have appeared in the medical literature. Interest has been cyclical but appears to have markedly increased in the past two decades. In this period it has included exploratory and descriptive writing; concern with controlling and/or eradicating the healers; desire to protect an ignorant and vulnerable public and. finally understanding and exploration of what the alternate healers might have to offer.\ud
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At the same time, the public or institutionalized role has been one of denial and suppression through ostracism and legal constraints.\ud
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In spite of medicine's position the alternate healing systems have found growing community acceptance so that it is problematical and probably unacceptable now to consider their use as a 'deviant ' health action. Increasing interest in the characteristics of clients has provided a consensus that they are similar to the adult population and are more likely to suffer from musculoskeletal and chronic illnesses. They are no more likely to be neurotic or gullible than the general community, but probably more practical and more oriented towards an active involvement in the healing process.\ud
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The impact of these issues is explored, through comparing the strategies taken into account when choosing a treatment. These include attending one of the alternate healers exclusively for a condition; attending an alternate healer and a medical practitioner for the same problem; attending a medical practitioner solely or not consulting any healer. Respondents from surveys of alternate healer clients and the general community were classified according to their use of these four strategies, and the influences on their decisions at different stages of the treatment decision making process were compared
Drink Driving Rehabilitation - Rural and Urban Issues
No full text"Under the Limit" is a drink driving rehabilitation programme that was developed as part of a wider community intervention in the Central Queensland Region, and was first implemented in 1993. During the development of the programme, a wide range of issues had to be addressed in the rural/ provincial context in terms of both implementation and content. Local stakeholders were involved in the development of the programme , and facilitators are recruited from the local community and trained to present the programme to classes of 8-10 offenders within the TAFE system. Video and other resources were produced locally and the content had to be directly relevant to the provincial/ rural environment. The social context of drink driving was carefully considered. A distance education version of the programme has been developed and implemented, catering for people living in remote areas or who are otherwise unable to participate in the classroom version of the programme. Availability of "Under the Limit" has since been extended throughout Queensland, and the necessity for some modifications to content and implementation procedures has been identified during this process
Criteria & challenges for a model of best practice for rehabilitation & treatment associated with an ignition interlock program
No full textCan we learn anything from boot camps? An evidence-based response to the challenges of Youth Justice in Queensland
No full textSystemic changes that will respond to the complex and underlying contributors to youth offending deserve methodical consideration, particularly for Indigenous youth, who are most vulnerable. Simple components of the system presented below may start to address the underlying causes of offending for long term individual, family and public health benefits...
Challenges for rural and remote road safety
No full textThe growing national and international awareness of the increased representation of serious injuries and fatalities in rural and remote areas is the focus of this paper. Australia was one of the earliest countries to try to address this issue with a targeted national action plan in 1996. This was an important document but the most recent national plan fails to dedicate attention to developing countermeasures for the particular problems of improving road safety in these regions.\ud
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The findings of a major program of research in Northern Queensland are discussed to stimulate interest and research into potential countermeasures. Specifically, the need to monitor clusters of crashes as a focus for intervention and local ownership is advocated. Taking action towards a national reduction of speed limits on rural roads and investment in proactive research based trials of drink driving countermeasures such as courtesy buses is strongly advocated
Do Helping Professionals Differ on the Perceived Importance of Multicultural Competencies?
No full textMethodological challenges in rural road safety case-control studies
No full textA case-control study of serious crashes in an extensive rural area of North Queensland, Australia, is currently underway. Planning for the study took several years to bring to completion. Its original design involved interviews with persons admitted to major hospitals in the region as a consequence of a traffic crash and with drivers recruited at the roadside optimally at or near the same site one week later. To date this is the plan that has been followed, although problems with roadside recruitment have been encountered.\ud
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We propose to examine several issues which arose, and continue to arise, in the process of designing, piloting and execution of the study. Operational definitions of concepts such as "rural", "remote" and "serious", and unanticipated methodological and practical challenges involved in recruiting a comparison series will be explored. We will also present some of the many ethical, legal, organisational and logistic complications which we faced and still face in mounting such a study and the solutions proposed and subsequently employed to overcome them
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