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Church, Stephanie Louise. "The social organisation of sex work : implications for female prostitutes' health and safety." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1179/.
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Introduction: Existing literature focuses on the risks that prostitutes pose to society rather than the occupational risks they face. Most of this work has been conducted with women who work on the streets, although estimates suggest that indoor prostitution (saunas and private flats) in particular is a growing area of commercial sex. This thesis aims to examine the social and economic organisation of commercial sex work in the UK across the three settings of street, sauna and private flats, paying particular attention to the health and safety implications for the women involved. Results: Women in the study reported high levels of social disadvantage that influenced their entry into prostitution; almost half were first paid for sex before they were eighteen and a minority were first forced into prostitution. The working conditions and routines of the three workplaces are described, focusing on the key social and structural features of the workplace, women’s autonomy and working rules, along with their potential impact upon general health, work related stress and safety. Few differences were found in the sexual and reproductive health of women working in different settings. However, as a group, prostitutes had far poorer sexual and reproductive health than non-prostitute women. High levels of violence were reported across the study, mainly from clients, but also pimps and other women. This was patterned by workplace, with street workers significantly more likely to experience violence than either sauna or flat workers. Conclusion: Prostitutes do not represent a threat to the health and safety of their clients; rather, data from this study suggest that the reverse is true. Prostitute health (e.g. sexual and reproductive health, drug use) is poorer than that of non-prostitute women in the UK, and as such, prostitutes represent a group with specialist health and welfare needs. The illegality, stigma and organisation of prostitution further impede women’s health and safety. The findings of this study can be used to tailor health services for prostitutes, as well as inform policy and future research
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Mizukami, Tetsuo. "New urban ethnicity : Japanese sojourner residency in Melbourne." Monash University, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8556.
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De, Sas Kropiwnicki Zosa. "The sex-trade hierarchy : the interplay of structure and agency in the decision-making processes of female, adolescent prostitutes in Cape Town, South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670167.
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Makuzva, Washington. "Tourists' perspectives of a tourism product in a selected Zimbabwean town." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2847.
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Thesis (MTech (Tourism and Hospitality Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.A well-packaged tourism product is the deciding factor in the choice of tourists about which destination to visit. A tourism product can be bundled with many tourism elements such as accommodation, attractions, activities and tours, price, image and climate. The tourism elements that build up a tourism product are the principle factors that contribute to the decision to choose one destination over another destination. Tourists can put a number of tourism products on the table, based on their needs and wants. However, they opt for one tourism product that promises to satisfy their demands. Destinations that offer unique tourism products are the most successful in a competitive industry since tourists will visit such destinations to fulfil their needs. However, even though some destinations like Victoria Falls offer unique tourism products, it is important to understand the nature and trends of tourists visiting this destination and their perceptions of the tourism product. This will assist in planning how to address any areas of concern as well as maintaining areas that are performing well. Limited research exists on tourist perspectives of the Victoria Falls tourism product and hence this is the focus of the current research. It will help in broadening the knowledge of the relevant tourism bodies in Zimbabwe on how tourists view the tourism product, as well as aiding sustainable development and growth of the tourism product. This study followed a quantitative methodology design. The interviewer administered 377 questionnaires on face-to-face basis to tourists on a voluntary participation basis. Systematic sampling was used to collect the data.Key findings indicate that despite the increasing number of females visiting this destination, males still dominate the tourist numbers. The majority of tourists fell within the age bracket of 21-50 years. The findings further show that availability of attractions, price of the tourism product, and accessibility of the destination play a paramount role in influencing tourists to visit the destination. Most tourists’ expectations were met and they would visit again in future and recommend the destination to friends and relatives. The most satisfactory results were noted on the attractions, activities, tours, and tourist accommodation. Despite these positive results, tourists felt that prices of accommodation, activities, tours, as well as dining, was too high. Furthermore, too many police roadblocks and unnecessary fines were noted as being detrimental to the tourism product. The researcher noted all concerns and made recommendations to overcome these negative aspects. The experience of tourists at a destination is strongly associated with an amalgamation of different elements of a tourism product. It is crucial to understand the performance of each tourism element as this contributes significantly to the success of the tourism product. The results of this study will afford the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority an understanding of the Victoria Falls tourism product from a tourist perspective. These entities will be able to improve the product, make it more attractive to tourists, and hence grow future visitor numbers. In addition, the results of this study create a baseline for future research. Monitoring of tourist perspectives over time and an evaluation and assessment of the tourist demands can be done, which will help in the modification and upgrading of the tourism product to match the demands of the consumers (tourists).
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Capous, Desyllas Moshoula. "Visions and Voices: An Arts-Based Qualitative Study Using Photovoice to Understand the Needs and Aspirations of Diverse Women Working in the Sex Industry." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/23.
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The ways in which sex workers have been studied and represented historically, socio-politically and academically do not take into account their voices, subjective experiences and participation in the process. Women working in the sex industry are seldom heard and their needs are consistently defined and represented by others. This contributes to the stereotyping and stigmatization of sex workers, while academic research is consistently being done on sex workers instead of with them. This study uses the arts-based research method of photovoice with individuals working in the sex industry in Portland, Oregon to understand their needs and aspirations through their own artistic self-representation. Understanding sex workers’ needs from their own point of view provides the opportunity for collaborative knowledge creation of important issues in order to enhance social service design and delivery, and advocate for social change. Valuing sex workers’ aspirations supports the acknowledgement of individual strengths, skills, and visions. Drawing from techniques of interpretive phenomenological analysis methods, the themes that emerge to illustrate the participants’ needs and aspirations include: sustainability of the body; nourishment of the heart; fostering of the mind and soul; social justice and activism; dreams and desires; and self-empowerment and identity. The participants create meaning from their photographs through the use of self, performance, bodies, emotions, imagination, intellect, humor and story-telling. The role of intersectionality informs the sex workers’ diverse experiences and their unique ways of self-expression. The researcher uses collage as reflexivity to illustrate, contextualize and reflect her physical, emotional, and mental experiences throughout the study. The multiple art exhibits that ensue from this study allow for the artists’ visions and voices to travel to a broad audience beyond academia, in order to reach influential community advocates and challenge stigma and stereotypes. This arts-based study presents the richness and complexity of alternative forms of data, invites new levels of engagement that are both cognitive and emotional, and provides creative ways through which to explore and understand the experiences of sex workers.
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Serbulo, Leanne Claire. "Women Adrift, Sporting Girls and the Unfortunate Poor: A Gendered History of Homelessness in Portland 1900-1929." PDXScholar, 2003. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/741.
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This purpose of this study is to incorporate women into the history of homelessness. Women's experience is missing from the narrative of industrial era homelessness, which causes researchers to make a distinction between the modem day homeless population and its predecessors. This distinction prevents researchers from examining the long term structural causes of homelessness and analyzing the role homelessness plays in U.S. society. This study explores the population characteristics and living conditions of three groups of women who were considered homeless during the early decades of the twentieth century in Portland. These groups include single working women who lived away from their family, prostitutes, and single mothers. This study also traces the development of charitable institutions and social welfare programs that arose to meet the needs of homeless women during this era and examines the relationships between homeless women and the reformers and charities that took up their cause. The inclusion of women's experience into the history of early twentieth century homelessness necessitates a broadened definition of the homeless phenomenon. Women's homelessness during this era was both defined and determined by their family situation. Women who lived outside of the patriarchal family were considered homeless and suffered economic hardship because of their non-traditional living arrangements. Incorporating an analysis of home back into homelessness will result in non-gendered policy implications. Labor market remedies and affordable housing solutions are still needed, but changes to the structure of the household economy are also called for. The unpaid labor women traditionally perform must be socially and economically valued and the sexual division of labor within the home needs to be challenged.
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高小蘭 and Siu-lan Ko. "Mainland migrant sex workers in Hong Kong: a sociological study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227405.
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Kielmann, Karina. ""Prostitution", "risk", and "responsibility" : paradigms of AIDS prevention and women's identities in Thika, Kenya." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69568.
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The focus of this thesis is an AIDS education programme targeting prostitutes in the industrial town of Thika, Kenya. The thesis challenges three key assumptions underlying the programme, namely: (1) prostitutes in Kenya form a readily identifiable, homogenous social category; (2) medically, they are a source of HIV-infection, and a risk group due to their sexual activity; (3) once provided with knowledge about AIDS transmission and prevention, they have the incentive, and the means to modify their risk behaviour. The notions of "prostitution", "risk", and "responsibility", as assumed in the medical discourse of the programme, are contrasted with those found in the narratives of local health workers and the women involved in the programme. The incongruences in these sets of understandings have implications for the interpretation of epidemiological findings and the planning of AIDS prevention programmes in general. By lending an overall priority ranking to the risk factor of sexual behaviour, the epidemiological paradigm informing the programme masks social and economic co-factors placing women at risk, as well as the role of men in transmission of the HIV-virus. Further, the paradigm ignores important factors in the motivation of health behaviour, namely, the relative significance that women attribute to the risk of AIDS, as well as their envisaged control over health.
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Raftery, David Jonathon. "Competition, conflict and cooperation : an ethnographic analysis of an Australian forest industry dispute." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr139.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 135-143. An anthropological analysis of an industrial dispute that occurred within the East Gippsland forest industry, 1997-1998 and how the workers strove to acheive better working conditions for themselves, and to share in the wealth they had created.
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Phillips, Rachel E. "Health and the sex trade : an examination of the social determinants of health status and health care access among sex workers." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/424.
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Chou, Bon-Wai. "The Chinese in Victoria: a longterm survey." 1993. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2269.
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The thesis is divided into three parts. Part One is headed by a fairly broad historiographic review into past works on the Chinese in Australia. This is followed by a brief introduction to the historical and cultural background of the immigrants and the character of their migration. An examination of the passive and proudly in different responses of the Chinese to Victorian anti-Chinese legislation concludes this section. The stress of this final chapter is on the overall lack of influence of the White Australian Policy on the behaviour of the Chinese. Part Two examines the sojourning sentiments of the Chinese and how they affected the sex and age distribution of the population, their choice and method of work, their accommodation and quality of life. Part Three begins by contrasting the impact of science and technology on Australia and China and the focus will be on China’s peripheral position in the industrial world. The insecurity of the Chinese in the industrialising environment of Australia will be considered. This will be contrasted by the more accommodating cultural milieu of Southeast Asia and the important thread of Chinese culture and traditions throughout the region’s history. The importance of the ‘modified’ or ‘mixed’ version of the family business in assisting the rise of the Chinese in the Southeast Asian region will be discussed. The final part of the thesis will suggest that the decline of the Victorian Chinese in the four occupations of alluvial mining, furniture-making, market-gardening and laundering was significantly affected by an inflexible attitude to technology. It is argued that the Chinese did not apply science and advanced equipment when it was prudent to do so. The conclusion will summarise the main argument and suggest its relevance for the modern overseas Chinese communities.
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Nnabugwu-Otesanya, Bernadette Ekwutosi. "A comparative study of prostitutes in Nigeria and Botswana." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1588.
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This study attempts to understand prostitution from their definition of the situation. It differs in its method from other studies on prostitution in that the investigation was based on the prostitutes' own perspectives as interpreted by the researcher using the interpretative epistemological tradition. A comparative analysis of prostitution in two economically stable African Countries, namely Nigeria and Botswana was made.
This study investigated society's perception of prostitutes and how it impacts upon their empowerment and emancipation as vulnerable members of the society and their participation in prevention and control of sexually transmitted infection including HIV/AIDS. Also the role of governments and individuals in creating and sustaining prostitution, an extensive insight to the modus operandi of prostitution and suggestions on how best to address prostitution in society, were discussed.
A triangulated methodology of three hundred and twenty five sexworkers (325) that includes a quantitative study of two hundred and five sex workers complimented with a qualitative study of one hundred and twenty sex workers participating in focus group discussion and case studies informed the study.
The findings of the research suggest that in the prostitutes' own definition of the situation; prostitutes contribute to the maintenance of societal equilibrium, the society creates and sustains prostitution. Economic need rather than lack of morals creates prostitutes and their situation of vulnerability as women is being reinforced by their status as prostitutes. Violence from partners that includes the police and the inability to reprimand their clients, are some hazards of prostitution and these result in their mobility and creates a challenge in adequately addressing the issue of prostitution in society, including their limited participation in the control of STDs.
Respondents in Botswana had a very good knowledge of STI's /HIV/AIDS and had no difficulties in going to hospital in the event of any STD's as compared with Nigerian respondents. The Nigerian respondents' indulged in self-medication with antibiotics and traditional herbs mixed in local gin before and after a sexual act, rather than go to hospitals.
The research findings should assist the government and international community's policies and programmes aimed at addressing prostitution and STDs/HIV/AIDS.Sociology
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"Dangerous rice bowl: risks and their management among Chinese female sex workers (FSWs) in Macau." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894483.
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Cheng, Man Chuen.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-134).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review --- p.14
Chapter Chapter 3: --- Methodology --- p.34
Chapter Chapter 4: --- Emotion --- p.51
Chapter Chapter 5: --- HIV/AIDS and STI --- p.74
Chapter Chapter 6: --- Violence --- p.96
Chapter Chapter 7: --- Conclusion --- p.111
Bibliography --- p.117
list of tables
Table 1: Socio -demographic characteristics of FSWs --- p.40
"Table 2: Clients' typology, their descriptions, and FSWs' preference" --- p.87
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Mansour, Gerard. "Child care in the retail industry in Victoria." Thesis, 1994. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/17934/.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the child care experiences and attitudes of those who work
within the retail industry in Victoria and it concentrates on the needs of parents with children aged
under 13 years old.
A number of issues are presented as part of the background information for this research: a summary of the historical developments in relation to the provision of child care for
working parents; the substantial growth in the participation of women in the workforce, including those
with dependant children, as well as the reasons why they work; the nature of the retail industry and the structure of employment in Victoria; the various types of child care arrangements which are used by working parents.
The methodology adopted to investigate the child care needs of retail workers in Victoria involved
several phases: interviews, group discussion, a questionnaire and phone polls. The practical field
research occurred in two separate phases, firstly interviews were conducted with retail workers and
the second phase was a survey of 893 workers in the retail industry in Victoria.
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Mienies, Keith Adrian. "Identifying the barriers sex workers experience to participate in public policy making." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23128.
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Thesis submitted for fifty percent completion of the degree of Master of
Management in the field of Public Policy at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg.
28 March 2017In South Africa, sex work is illegal, and sex workers have operated in the shadows for decades, although the profession has been around for centuries. Sex workers are marginalised and vulnerable which affects their power and authority to participate in public policy deliberations. Their ability to participate in community forums and public discussions about issues that affect them is limited mainly due to their lack of agency, social exclusion and stigma. Ultimately, their equality in the democracy they live is compromised due to social norms, cultural values and religion. This study investigated the barriers that sex workers face to participate in public policy making. This research was a basic interpretive qualitative study which was conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa. Data was collected using structured and semi structured tools through focus group discussions with active sex workers and key informant interviews with policy makers, academics and legal experts. The data was collected and analysed through an exploratory lens that allowed a story to unfold and used people’s experiences to shed light on what these barriers were. The results from the study concluded that sex workers are in fact socially excluded within the communities they live and this exclusion fuels internal and external stigma. This structurally decreases their human and social agency and systematically excludes their voices, human rights, legitimate policy needs and opinions from public policy making processes within their communities. In order to address this structural disadvantage, an advanced form of behaviour change of communities, policy makers and public service personnel is recommended.
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Schuler, Greta. ""At your own risk" : narratives of Zimbabwean migrant sex workers in Hillbrow and discourses of vulnerability, agency, and power." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/13155.
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This study explores the self-representations of cross-border migrant, female sex workers
in Johannesburg and compares these representations to those created by public discourses around
cross-border migration, sex work, and gender. With a focus on issues of agency, vulnerability,
and power, the study questions the impact of prevalent representations of these women by others
on their individual self-representations. The participatory approach of this study builds on
previous participatory research projects with migrant sex workers in Johannesburg and employs
creative writing as a methodology to generate narratives and thus adds to literature about
alternative methodologies for reaching currently marginalised and under-researched groups.
Organisations such as Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke
Sex Worker Movement have worked with sex workers to generate digital stories for advocacy;
however, academic research employing storytelling as a methodology has not been done with
migrant sex workers in South Africa. While existing evidence indicates that cross-border
migrant, female sex workers are often marginalised by state and non-state actors professing to
assist them, this study emphasizes the voices of the women themselves. Over the course of three
months, I conducted creative writing workshops with five female Zimbabwean sex workers in
Hillbrow, Johannesburg; the women generated stories in these workshops that became the basis
for one-on-one unstructured interviews. I compared the self-representations that emerged from
this process with the representations of migrant sex workers that I determined from a desk
review of the websites of organisations that contribute to trafficking and sex work discourses in
South Africa.
With the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill close to becoming law
in South Africa and the prevalent assumption that systemic trafficking problems are related to the
sex industry and irregular migration, developing a better understanding of migrants involved in
sex work in South Africa is particularly important. Furthermore, a national focus on reducing and
even preventing immigration—and the stigma attached to migrants—adds urgency to the
elucidation of the lives of migrants. This study investigates how female Zimbabwean sex
workers in Johannesburg—often positioned as vulnerable and sometimes misidentified as
trafficked—see themselves in a country increasingly concerned with issues of (anti-)immigration
and (anti-)trafficking. Furthermore, sex work is criminalized in South Africa and social mores
attach stigma to prostitution. Contrary to assumptions that all sex workers are forced into the
industry or foreign sex workers trafficked into the country, the participants in this study spoke of
active choices in their lives—including choices about their livelihood and their movement—and
describe their vulnerabilities and strengths. Perhaps the most striking similarity between
participants was the women’s acknowledgement of the dangers they face and the decisions they
make, weighing risks and gains. This recognition of agency ran through the six key themes that I
generated through thematic analysis: Conflicting Representations of Sex Work, Stigma and
Double Existence, Health and Safety, Importance of Independence, Morality of Remittances, and
Mobility. Throughout the analysis, I argue that the participants in the study present themselves as
aware of the dangers they face and calculating the risks. The participants responded
enthusiastically to the creative writing methodology—through their stories, discussions, and
interviews, they portrayed a complex, at times ambiguous, portrait of migrant sex workers in
South Africa. While recognizing their double vulnerability—as illegally engaging in sex work
and, often, illegally residing in South Africa, they also emphasized their strength and agency.
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Leggett, Ted. "Women in sex work in the Durban CBD : towards a broader understanding of poverty." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7385.
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Davies, Susanne Elizabeth. "Vagrancy and the Victorians: the social construction of the vagrant in Melbourne, 1880-1907." 1990. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/372.
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In Melbourne between 1880 and 1907, the construction and propagation of a vagrant stereotype and its manifestation in law, constituted an important means of controlling the behaviour of individuals and groups who were perceived to be socially undesirable or economically burdensome.
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Edwards, Kenneth J. "Historical trends in occupational health and safety in Victoria." Thesis, 1993. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15380/.
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This thesis reviews the history of Occupational
Health and Safety legislation in Australia from its
conception in attempts to regulate the factory system in
the mid-nineteenth century until the passing of the
Occupational Health and Safety Act in 1985 in Victoria.
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Law, Lisa. "Dancing in Cebu : mapping bodies, subjectivities and spaces in an era of HIV/AIDS." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144275.
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Jiang, Benran. "A profile of young adults aged 20-30 years with cerebral palsy in Victoria: health, function, pain, quality of life, social participation, and service utilisation." 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7129.
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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood with a prevalence of approximately 2-2.5 per 100 live births. Improvements in paediatric care have increased the survival of individuals with CP. Overall 90% are expected to grow into adulthood yet little is known about the outcomes of young adults with this condition. In order to provide holistic services for this population, an understanding of various aspects of their lives is required.AIMS: To examine the outcome of young adults with CP from the perspective of perceived health status, functional ability, pain, quality of life (QOL), social participation, and healthcare service utilizations, compared with their able-bodied peers. To explore the determinants that contribute to the variation of these outcomes in the context of impairments, activity, participation, and personal and environmental factors.
METHODS: This is a population based cross sectional study of young adults with CP based on the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model. A cohort of 335 young adults with cerebral palsy born in Victoria, aged 20 to 30 years, was recruited from the Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register. Data of typically developed peers selected from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey 2004 were used for comparison for the outcomes of perceived health, pain, and social participation. Data from a population-based sample of 751 young adults in U.S. were used for comparative analyses of QOL. Participants were asked to complete a multidimensional questionnaire by self report, or proxy report by parents or carers for those with intellectual or severe physical impairments. The questionnaire was comprised of the Quality of Life Instrument for Young Adults, the Short Form-36 Health Survey Questionnaire version 2, the Gross Motor Function Classification System, the Barthel Index, and a demographic section.
RESULTS: A total of 335 young adults with CP participated; 207 (62%) were able to self report and 128 (38%) were proxy reported. Compared with their able-bodied peers, self reported physical health in this population was lower but mental health was similar. Gross motor function, independence in self care, and limb distribution together explained 60% of the variance in the physical health data. They experienced more pain, impaired function, and reduced social participation, but despite this, their contact with medical and allied health professionals was low. Pain was linked with limb distribution and had a negative impact on functional ability, employment participation and QOL. Impaired functional ability, intellectual disability, and communication impairments had major effects in reducing social participation. Self reported QOL was similar to their peers in social relationship and environmental context domains, but was lower in the domains of physical health, psychological well-being, and role function. The impact of CP on the individuals’ QOL was on physical and functional aspects, and sometimes on social relationships, but not on psychological well-being.
CONCLUSION: This study has demonstrated that greater efforts are needed to improve the health, function, QOL, and social participation in individuals with CP, accompanied by more research to monitor the effectiveness of interventions for them.
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Raftery, David Jonathon. "Competition, conflict and cooperation : an ethnographic analysis of an Australian forest industry dispute." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/110278.
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Brooks, Margaret J. P. "Beyond the divide: women's experiences in rural Victorian psychiatric rehabilitation services." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18145/.
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The objective of this study was to give voice to women experiencing
psychiatric rehabilitation services in rural Victoria. A critical analysis of the
literature revealed a landscape of marginalisation and alienation for women
experiencing a mental illness in a rural area. This study used a
phenomenological method to explore the meanings of women's experiences.
The understanding of meaning was developed through a dual perspective
with women experiencing rural psychiatric rehabilitation and workers who
delivered these services. The research centred on the voices of the women but
encouraged a personal and collective reflective approach with workers.
As the researcher I also took a reflexive approach which highlighted the
methodology as an evolving and ongoing process and demonstrated the
integral nature of the researcher in the research process. A chapter on locating
the researcher was included as part this reflective process.
The analysis of the collective stories produced a rich diversity of material was drawn together thematically to include:
• Reflections of struggle;
• Long way from anywhere:
• The rural dimension;
• Construction of a caring relationship, and,
• Interlinking care.
Through this thesis I argue that women are marginalised and alienated by social cultural conditions of their lives which impacts on their mental illness
and rural experiences. However, women are not a homogenous group and a
diversity of experiences exists which demonstrates women's active capacity to
mediate their environment. As active participants in their psychiatric
rehabilitation care the women were able to shift their identity from one of
powerlessness and lack of control towards regaining control and managing
their illness and environment. The thesis is a story of transformation as the
women progressively moved forward in their journey.
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Murfett, Amanda. "Time out for respite and recovery : a qualitative study of influences on general practitioners’ adaptation to general practice." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/22355/.
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Previous research has highlighted general practitioners (GPs) maladaptive coping
efforts, but little is known about GPs who appear to adapt positively to their inherently
demanding work. This study aimed to address this knowledge gap by identifying factors
that optimise GPs adaptation to working in general practice. A qualitative methodology
underpinned by a constructionist epistemological stance was used. Twenty-six semistructured
individual interviews with suburban and rural GPs in the State of Victoria aged
between 24 and 77 years were conducted. GPs identified work demands consistent with
previous research: time pressure, long hours of work, heavy workload, and pace of work;
work interfering with non-work/family, threat of malpractice litigation, and bureaucratic
interference. However, the degree of concern and coping responses was varied; some GPs
appraised the work demands as a threat while others considered them an opportunity. GPs
adopted a range of adaptive behaviours to manage and resolve work demands that were
influenced by six key elements. These were: (1) the degree of work centrality to GPs, (2)
the inclination of GPs towards integration or segmentation of work and non-work/family
domains, (3) situational factors in the general practice and non-work/family domains, (4)
ability to psychologically detach from GP role (5) choice of respite activity, and (6)
adequate recovery from work demands. An heuristic schema that brings together these six
elements and their implications for GP adaptation was presented. Understanding and self-knowledge
about work orientation, and preference for integrating and segmenting life
domains, point to the need for tailored respite strategies that facilitate psychological
detachment, recovery of resources, and successful adaptation to working in general
practice and life as a GP. This knowledge may also assist medical students to prepare for
meeting the challenges of their future medical careers.
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Melaku, Lude Abiy. "The social dislocation of and social support for female street children engaged in commercial sex work : an explorative study in the Addis Ketema sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19563.
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In this study semi-structured, in-depth individual interviews were conducted with sixteen female street children aged 15 to 18, who were engaged in commercial sex work. These children were conveniently selected to explore the social dislocation of and social support for female street children engaged in commercial sex work. In addition, two focus group discussions consisting of nine female street children each, as well as seven key informant individual interviews, were conducted. This study found that female children engaged in commercial sex work experienced a high degree of social dislocation and that the children who participated in this study tended to create their own communities and isolated themselves from the broader community in which they lived. This study further found that different support programmes had been introduced to alleviate the problems experienced by these children and that a number of organisations delivered support services to address their needs.Sociology
M. A. (Sociology)