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McMillan, Alison. "Epidemic Thunderstorm Asthma." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, s1 (May 2019): s7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19000335.

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Introduction:On November 21 and 22 of 2016, Victoria witnessed an unprecedented epidemic thunderstorm asthma emergency event in size acuity and impact. This scenario was never exercised nor contemplated. The event resulted in a 73% increase in calls to the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority and 814 ambulance cases in the six hours from 6 pm on November 21, 2016. A 58% increase in people presented to public hospital emergency departments in Melbourne and Geelong on November 21 and 22, 2016 (based on the three-year average). 313 calls were made to the nurse on call from people with breathing, respiratory, and allergy problems (compared to an average of 63 calls for the previous month). Tragically, ten deaths are linked to this event.Methods:A substantial amount of work has been completed, much of which goes towards addressing the Inspector-General for Emergency Management recommendations following a review of the event, including: Release of an epidemic thunderstorm asthma campaign and education programs which were rolled out across Victoria for the community and health professionals from September through November 2017;Development of a new epidemic thunderstorm asthma forecasting system on 1 October 2017 and updated warning protocols during the 2017 grass pollen season;Implementation of a Real-time Health Emergency Monitoring System to alert the department of demands on public hospital emergency departments on the system; andIntroduction of a new State Health Emergency Response Plan in October 2017 to improve coordination and communications before and during a health emergency.Discussion:The presentation will concentrate on the lessons learned more than two years down the track from the event in November 2016.

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Rich, J., and C. Castle. "Tuberculosis services in Victoria." Medical Journal of Australia 143, no. 7 (September 1985): 320–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1985.tb123037.x.

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Cargnello, Jill A. "Dermatological services for rural Victoria." Medical Journal of Australia 164, no. 9 (May 1996): 576. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb122191.x.

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Briggs, Patricia. "Family Aide Services in Victoria." Children Australia 14, no. 3 (1989): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000002307.

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Data has been gathered by the Family Aide Projects Association from family aide services throughout the State of Victoria to enable policy and program decision making within the family aide program to be better informed. The 52 member agencies were canvassed to generate information which gives a more comprehensive picture of the operation of services than previously available. This paper presents a summary of the survey process and outcome.

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Dyer, Clare. "Expert witnesses should deliver services through the NHS." BMJ 333, no. 7575 (November 2, 2006): 933.1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.333.7575.933.

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Mitchell, Brian. "Preventative Child Welfare Services in Victoria." Children Australia 13, no. 1 (1988): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000001752.

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The idea of prevention in child welfare is not new. The prevention of substitute placement of children whether on a temporary or long-term basis has been a fundamental principle of child welfare we have held to for many years in Victoria.However, it is only in the last decade that this principle is actually being carried out in practice by a number of voluntary agencies. For many children placement is still commonly used as a solution it is easier to place a child than to promote change within many multi-deficit families.

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Deen, Thaufiq, O. Argo Victoria, and Sumain Sumain. "Public Notary Services In Malaysia." Jurnal Akta 5, no. 4 (December 22, 2018): 1017. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/akta.v5i4.4135.

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Starting January 5, 2015 the Embassy in Kuala Lumpur requires appointments for all notarial services. Please bring your appointment confirmation sheet and arrive at the embassy 10 minutes before the appointment time[1]. It can provide most of the same notarial services that a public notary is authorized by law to perform within the United States. Services are similary available as in U.S. and to foreign nationals with documents intended for use within the U.S. By following to the ACS Unit when requesting notary services: The documents to be notarized, including attachments, if any. The passport and one other photo identification. Witnesses, if required. (Consular staff are not alloitd to serve as witnesses.) $50.00 or the equivalent in Malaysian ringgit for each seal. Notary fees can be paid in cash or by credit card.Keywords: Notary, Management, Malaysia.[1] https://evisaforms.state.gov/acs/default.asp?postcode=KLL&appcode=1, Accessed on 15th February 2019

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Adžajlić-Dedović, Azra, Haris Halilović, and Samir Rizvo. "POSSIBLE SENSITIVE VICTIMS - WITNESSES." Knowledge International Journal 30, no. 6 (March 20, 2019): 1517–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij30061517a.

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Victims and witnesses may be reluctant to give information and evidence because of perceived or actual intimidation or threats against themselves or members of their family. This concern may be exacerbated where people who come into contact with the criminal justice system are particularly vulnerable. For instance, by virtue of their age and developing levels of maturity, children require that special measures be taken to ensure that they are appropriately assisted and protected by criminal justice processes.Victims who receive appropriate and adequate care and support are more likely to cooperate with the criminal justice system in bringing perpetrators of crime to justice. However, inadequacies of criminal justice systems may mean that victims are not able to access the services they need and may even be re-victimized by the criminal justice system itself.

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Muller, Andreas, Hien T. Vu, John G. Ferraro, Jill E. Keeffe, and Hugh R. Taylor. "Utilization of eye care services in Victoria." Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 34, no. 5 (July 2006): 445–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01234.x.

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Martin-Kerry, Jacqueline M., Martin Whelan, John Rogers, Anil Raichur, Deborah Cole, and Andrea M. de Silva. "Addressing disparities in oral disease in Aboriginal people in Victoria: where to focus preventive programs." Australian Journal of Primary Health 25, no. 4 (2019): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py18100.

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The aim of this study is to determine where Aboriginal people living in Victoria attend public oral health services; whether they access Aboriginal-specific or mainstream services; and the gap between dental caries (tooth decay) experience in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Analysis was undertaken on routinely collected clinical data for Aboriginal patients attending Victorian public oral health services and the distribution of Aboriginal population across Victoria. Approximately 27% of Aboriginal people attended public oral health services in Victoria across a 2-year period, with approximately one in five of those accessing care at Aboriginal-specific clinics. In regional Victoria, 6-year-old Aboriginal children had significantly higher levels of dental caries than 6-year-old non-Aboriginal children. There was no significant difference in other age groups. This study is the first to report where Aboriginal people access public oral health care in Victoria and the disparity in disease between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal users of the Victorian public oral healthcare system. Aboriginal people largely accessed mainstream public oral healthcare clinics highlighting the importance for culturally appropriate services and prevention programs to be provided across the entire public oral healthcare system. The findings will guide development of policy and models of care aimed at improving the oral health of Aboriginal people living in Victoria.

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Duckett, Stephen, and Amanda Kenny. "Hospital outpatient and emergencyservices in rural Victoria." Australian Health Review 23, no. 4 (2000): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah000115.

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Outpatient and emergency services in rural hospitals have rarely been studied. This paper analyses routinely collecteddata, together with data from a survey of hospitals, to provide a picture of these services in Victorian public hospitals.The larger rural hospitals provide the bulk of rural outpatients and emergency services, particularly so for medicaloutpatients. Cost per service varies with the size of the hospital, possibly reflecting differences in complexity. Fundingpolicies for rural hospital outpatient and emergency services should be sufficiently flexible to take into account thedifferences between rural hospitals.

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Piperoglou, Michael. "Greeks in Victoria: implications for mental‐health services." Medical Journal of Australia 151, no. 1 (July 1989): 55–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb128462.x.

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Chittleborough, Timothy John, Kaleb Lourensz, Matthew Elliott, Peter Thomas, and Stephen Franzi. "Outreach surgical consulting services in North East Victoria." Australian Journal of Rural Health 21, no. 6 (December 2013): 325–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12065.

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Spencer, A. John, and Jenny M. Lewis. "Requirement and supply of dental services in Victoria." Australian Dental Journal 34, no. 4 (August 1989): 340–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1834-7819.1989.tb04643.x.

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Durrington, Learne. "Localising Human Services: A History of Local Government Human Services in Victoria." Australian Social Work 62, no. 1 (March 2009): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03124070902800505.

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Fyffe, Chris, Susana T. Gavidia-Payne, and Jeffrey McCubbery. "Early Intervention and Families in Rural Victoria." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 20, no. 4 (December 1995): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693919502000407.

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Families are increasingly understood as inter-related systems where each component interacts with other components in diverse ways. Contemporary research on families which have children with disabilities emphasises the complexity of families and the futility of searching for one characteristic of a family as predictive of family outcomes. The current study investigated the relationship between family needs, family supports, and demographic information for rural families who were eligible for early intervention services. The study did not attempt to review specific early intervention services, but rather to associate the characteristics of services which families found most and least effective. The results are discussed in terms of the practice of providing family-focused models of service delivery. This project was funded by the Golden North Centre, Spastic Society, Bendigo

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Iriberri, Alicia. "Natural Language Processing and Psychology in e-Government Services." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 11, no. 2 (April 2015): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.2015040101.

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Crime statistics from the US Bureau of Justice and the FBI Uniform Crime Report show a gap between reported and unreported crime. For police to effectively prevent and solve crime, they require accurate and complete information about incidents. This article describes the evaluation of a crime reporting and interviewing system that witnesses can use to report crime incidents or suspicious activities anonymously while ensuring the information received is of such quality that police can use it to begin an investigation process. The system emulates the tasks that a police investigator would perform by leveraging natural language processing technology and the interviewing techniques used in the Cognitive Interview. The system incorporates open-source code from the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) program developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, Web and database technology, and Java-based proprietary code developed by the author. Findings of this evaluation show that the system is capable of producing accurate and complete reports by enhancing witnesses' memory recall and that its efficacy approximates the efficacy of a human conducting a cognitive interview closer than existing alternatives. The system is introduced as the first computer application of the cognitive interview and proposed as a viable alternative to face-to-face investigative interviews.

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Palmer, Sir Geoffrey. "Provision of Legal Services to Government." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 31, no. 1 (April 3, 2000): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v31i1.5963.

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This article was presented as a lecture on "Capital Law School Day" organised by the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to mark the occasion of the centenary of the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington in 1999

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Olfat, Hamed, Behnam Atazadeh, Abbas Rajabifard, Afshin Mesbah, Farshad Badiee, Yiqun Chen, Davood Shojaei, and Mark Briffa. "Moving Towards a Single Smart Cadastral Platform in Victoria, Australia." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 5 (May 7, 2020): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9050303.

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Various jurisdictions are currently in the process of reforming their cadastral systems to achieve a smart and multidimensional system that provides a range of land administration services to the wider community. The state of Victoria in Australia has been actively modernizing its cadastral system since the 1990s by developing a digital cadastre database, an online digital cadastral plan lodgment portal named SPEAR, and smart cadastre services for validating and visualizing digital data in the ePlan (LandXML) format. However, due to challenges in the implementation of the smart cadastre lifecycle in Victoria, the uptake of ePlan is currently low across the surveying industry. This study aims to explore the feasibility of implementing a smart platform for managing ePlan lodgments in Victoria, which provides all required services within an integrated digital environment. To achieve this aim, the business and technical requirements for realizing a single smart cadastral platform are first explored. A proof of concept (PoC) is then developed to showcase a suitable approach for developing this platform. The evaluation of the PoC confirmed that integration of smart cadastre services into a single environment could significantly streamline the digital cadastral data management processes in Victoria.

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Lim, Hui Y., Patricia M. O'Connor, and Jill E. Keeffe. "Low vision services provided by optometrists in Victoria, Australia." Clinical and Experimental Optometry 91, no. 2 (March 2008): 177–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00214.x.

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McCann, Warren. "Redeveloping Primary Health and Community Support Services in Victoria." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00032.

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Why Primary Care Reforms?: It gives me very great pleasure to have been asked to speak at this major international Conference about redeveloping primary health and community support services in Victoria. While opening the Conference, the Victorian Minister for Health, the Honourable John Thwaites, launched the Primary Care Partnership Strategy which is one of the most ambitious and far reaching primary health and community support reform agendas in Australia.

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Di Napoli, Immacolata, Fortuna Procentese, Stefania Carnevale, Ciro Esposito, and Caterina Arcidiacono. "Ending Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Locating Men at Stake: An Ecological Approach." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 9 (May 12, 2019): 1652. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091652.

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Interventions for ending intimate partner violence (IPV) have not usually provided integrated approaches. Legal and social policies have the duty to protect, assist and empower women and to bring offenders to justice. Men have mainly been considered in their role as perpetrators to be subjected to judicial measures, while child witnesses of violence have not been viewed as a direct target for services. Currently, there is a need for an integrated and holistic theoretical and operational model to understand IPV as gender-based violence and to intervene with the goal of ending the fragmentation of existing measures. The EU project ViDaCS—Violent Dads in Child Shoes—which worked towards the deconstruction and reconstruction of violence’s effects on child witnesses, has given us the opportunity to collect the opinions of social workers and child witnesses regarding violence. Therefore, the article describes measures to deal with IPV, proposing functional connections among different services and specific preventative initiatives. Subsequently, this study will examine intimate partner violence and provide special consideration to interventions at the individual, relational, organizational and community levels. The final goal will be to present a short set of guidelines that take into account the four levels considered by operationalizing the aforementioned ecological principles.

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Pettigrew, Kim. "The Light Ones–Victoria Police, Community Services Victoria, and the Children and Young Persons Bill 1987." Journal of Social Welfare Law 11, no. 4 (July 1989): 235–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09649068908415700.

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Castle, David J. "Letter from Australia: mental healthcare in Victoria." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 17, no. 1 (January 2011): 2–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.110.008375.

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SummaryMental health services in the state of Victoria, Australia, have undergone enormous change over the past 15 years, with the closure of all stand-alone psychiatric hospitals and a shift of resources and services into the community. Although successful overall, various areas cause concern, including pressure on acute beds, a paucity of alternative residential options, and suboptimal integration of government and non-government agencies concerned with the care of people with mental illnesses. Certain groups, notably those with complex symptom sets such as substance use and mental illness, intellectual disability and forensic problems, remain poorly catered for by the system. Finally, community stigma and lack of work inclusion for mentally ill individuals are ongoing challenges.

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Domino, Madeline Ann, Matthew Stradiot, and Mariah Webinger. "Factors which may bias judges’ decisions to exclude accounting expert witnesses testimony." Accounting Research Journal 28, no. 1 (July 6, 2015): 59–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arj-11-2014-0097.

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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate factors which may influence or bias judges’ decisions to exclude or admit the testimony of accounting expert witnesses, under the US judicial guidelines commonly known as the Daubert/Kuhmo standards. Accounting experts are increasingly providing expert testimony as a part of financial litigation support services. Design/methodology/approach – Judges’ decisions, in which opposing council evoked a Daubert/Kuhmo challenge to the testimony provided by 130 professional accountants serving as expert witnesses, were analyzed. The period of study was 2010 through 2014. Based on prior research, three variables believed to potentially influence or bias judges to systematically exclude expert testimony were examined: gender, complexity and familiarity. Findings – The results of binary logistic regression show that none of the variables has a significant relationship to the accounting expert witnesses’ probability of surviving a challenge to Daubert/Kuhmo standards. Findings suggest that judges are objective in evaluating the testimony provided by accounting experts under Daubert/Kuhmo guidelines and that they may be immune to biases based solely on gender, complexity and familiarity. Originality/value – These results will be of interest to judges, lawyers and forensic accountants acting as expert witnesses.

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Keleher, Helen, Rebecca Round, and Gay Wilson. "Report of the mid-term review of Victoria's Maternity Services Program." Australian Health Review 25, no. 4 (2002): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020119.

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Substantial State Government funding has been committed in Victoria for the enhancement of maternity services. The funding is intended to improve the quality of care for women and meet consumer expectations for choice and continuity of care in maternity services. This paper reports on a mid-term review (the 'Review') of the Victorian Maternity Services Program, which was conducted by the authors on behalf of the Victorian Department of Human Services. Documentary analysis was conducted for the review, and workshops and key informant interviews were held throughout Victoria with midwives, medical staff and Department of Human Services staff. The Review found that there had been many gains as a result of the Maternity Services Program and identified directions for further development. Issues of change and facilitators of change processes in maternity services are highlighted in this article.

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Wilson, Gai, Paul Butler, Tricia Szirom, and Jenny Cameron. "Indirect Services Funded by the National Women's Health Program in Victoria." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 2 (1998): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98023.

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Victoria's Women's Health Services and Centres Against Sexual Assault have implemented a range of indirect activities utilising various strategies and methods with a particular focus on information and resource provision, education and training, community development and promotional activity. They have increased women's access to existing services by working to make those services more appropriate and relevant. To achieve this they have involved women in the community in program management, design and implementation. Collaboration with other agencies in health and related services has also been a key strategy in achieving changes to mainstream services and fulfilling the aims of the dual strategy.

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Islam, Rezaul. "Mental health services in the Seychelles." Psychiatric Bulletin 23, no. 9 (September 1999): 565–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.23.9.565.

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When I reached Seychelles to start my new job with the Ministry of Health as a consultant psychiatrist at the Victoria Hospital I had hardly any idea about the islands, let alone its mental health service. But I decided to take the job partly out of curiosity and an interest to see what psychiatry would be on a tourist island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

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Anderson, Philip. "Developing Preventive Services." Children Australia 13, no. 2 (1988): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000001880.

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Before discussing the types of services that are required I would like to look, just briefly, at some of the recent history in the provision of services.Edith Bennett was the Director of the Family Welfare Division in what is now Community Services Victoria. Those of you who have been around for more than ten years will remember her. She once said that what we need is a range of flexible services. Being rather young and believing I knew it all I thought at the time that this was a load of simplistic rubbish. How could something so simple be true. The field likes to make these things complex. However, looking back I feel she had made a key point that is perfectly obvious now.

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Ansari, M. Z., D. Simmon s, W. G. Hart, F. Cicuttin i, N. J. Carson, N. I. A. G. Brand, M. J. Ackland, and D. J. Lang. "Preventable Hospitalisations for Diabetic Complications in Rural and Urban Victoria." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00060.

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The objective of the study was to describe and explain variations in rates of hospital admissions for long-term complications of diabetes mellitus in rural and urban Victoria as an indicator of the adequacy of ambulatory care services. The Victorian Inpatient Minimum Database (VIMD), Health Insurance Commission data for 1998, Medical Labour Force Annual Survey 1998, Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas 1996 (SEIFA) and Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) were merged to determine the extent to which hospitalisation for complications of diabetes can be predicted from accessibility and utilisation of general practitioner services. The rural and urban differentials for long-term diabetic complications and their strong relationship with GP services, the degree of remoteness, lack of insurance, and Aboriginality reflect issues related to equity and access, patient and GP education, and inclination to seek care, all of which have implications for planning of primary health services in rural areas. This study describes a model for the analysis of ambulatory care sensitive conditions, and illustrates the important use of routine databases combined with other sources of information in quantifying the impact of factors related to primary care services.

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Meadows, Graham. "Geographical Resource Allocation for Public Mental Health Services in Victoria." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 31, no. 1 (February 1997): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679709073805.

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Objective:To provide background information on the approach of area based funding models for mental health services, to describe the considerations which have come to bear in the development process of the Victorian model, to explore the impacts of different models, and to suggest courses for further development. Method:The history of this approach to funding in the UK and the USA is summarised, then an account is given of the development of the Victorian model. The position is put that the validation of such models is hampered by having only sparse relevant data. Suggestions are made for improving this situation. Results:The Victorian model has come to include adjustments for socioeconomic disadvantage, the age, sex and marital status structure of the population, and a variable discounting for estimated substitutive activity of the private sector. Different methods of combining these adjustments into a working formula can be seen to have very different impacts. Conclusions:The approach taken in development of this model can be expected to have major influence on funding within Victoria, but also more widely in Australia. The impacts of differing assumptions within these models are significant. Specifically targeted epidemiological research, and activity analysis of the private sector will be necessary to enhance the validity of models of this type.

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Harris, Ben. "Gender differences in the utilisation of optometric services in Victoria." Clinical and Experimental Optometry 88, no. 2 (March 2005): 109–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2005.tb06676.x.

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Renzaho, Andre. "Re-visioning cultural competence in community health services in Victoria." Australian Health Review 32, no. 2 (2008): 223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah080223.

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There are few studies exploring the need to develop and manage culturally competent health services for refugees and migrants from diverse backgrounds. Using data from 50 interviews with service providers from 26 agencies, and focus group discussion with nine different ethnic groups, this paper examines how the Victorian state government funding and service agreements negatively impact on the quest to achieve cultural competence. The study found that service providers have adopted ?one approach fits all? models of service delivery. The pressure and competition for resources to address culturally and linguistically diverse communities? needs allows little opportunity for partnership and collaboration between providers, leading to insufficient sharing of information and duplication of services, poor referrals, incomplete assessment of needs, poor compliance with medical treatment, underutilisation of available services and poor continuity of care. This paper outlines a model for cultural consultation and developing needs-led rather than serviceled programs.

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Jones, Rikki, Kim Usher, and Cindy Woods. "Crystal methamphetamine's impact on frontline emergency services in Victoria, Australia." Australasian Emergency Care 22, no. 4 (December 2019): 201–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2019.07.004.

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Boyle, Malcolm J., M. ClinEpi, Erin C. Smith, and Frank L. Archer. "Trauma Incidents Attended by Emergency Medical Services in Victoria, Australia." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 23, no. 1 (February 2008): 20–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00005501.

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AbstractIntroduction:International literature describing the profile of trauma patients attended by a statewide emergency medical services (EMS) system is lacking. Most literature is limited to descriptions of trauma responses for a single emergency medical service, or to patients transported to a specific Level-1 trauma hospital. There is no Victorian or Australian literature describing the type of trauma patients transported by a state emergency medical service.Purpose:The purpose of this study was to define a profile of all trauma incidents attended by statewide EMS.Methods:A retrospective cohort study of all patient care records (PCR) for trauma responses attended by Victorian Ambulance Services for 2002 was conducted. Criteria for trauma categories were defined previously, and data were extracted from the PCRs and entered into a secure data repository for descriptive analysis to determine the trauma profile. Ethics committee approval was obtained.Results:There were 53,039 trauma incidents attended by emergency ambulances during the 12-month period. Of these, 1,566 patients were in physiological distress, 11,086 had a significant pattern of injury, and a further 8,931 had an identifiable mechanism of injury. The profile includes minor trauma (n = 9,342), standing falls (n = 20,511), no patient transported (n = 3,687), and deceased patients (n = 459).Conclusions:This is a unique analysis of prehospital trauma. It provides a baseline dataset that may be utilized in future studies of prehospital trauma care. Additionally, this dataset identifies a ten-fold difference in major trauma between the prehospital and the hospital assessments.

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Saunders, Alan. "Drug Information Services in Victoria: Please Don't Follow This Leader." Australian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 28, no. 6 (December 1998): 391–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jppr1998286391.

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Mullen, P., and J. Ogloff. "Providing mental health services to adult offenders in Victoria, Australia: Overcoming barriers." European Psychiatry 24, no. 6 (September 2009): 395–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.07.003.

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AbstractPurposeTo illustrate the development of the interface between general and forensic mental health services in Victoria, Australia.MethodDeveloping effective cooperation between the general and forensic mental health services requires overcoming a number of barriers. The attitude of general services that antisocial behaviour was none of their business was tackled through ongoing workshops and education days over several years. The resistance to providing care to those disabled by severe personality disorders or substance abuse was reduced by presenting and promoting models of care developed in forensic community and inpatient services which prioritised these areas. The reluctance of general services to accept offenders was reduced by involving general services in court liaison clinics and in prisoner release plans. Cooperation was enhanced by the provision of risk assessments, the sharing of responsibility for troublesome patients, and a problem behaviours clinic to support general services in coping with stalkers, sex offenders and threateners.ConclusionsActive engagement with general services was promoted at the level of providing education, specialised assessments and a referral source for difficult patients. This generated a positive interface between forensic and general mental health services, which improved the quality of care delivered to mentally abnormal offenders.

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Goddard, Christopher R. "Victoria's Protective services and the ‘Interim’ Fogarty Report: Is This the Right Road at Last?" Children Australia 15, no. 1 (1990): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200002546.

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The history of the provision of child protection services in Victoria, and the lack thereof, is a long and complex one. Yet another twist in the tale occurred recently.A report by Mr Justice Fogarty and Mrs Delys Sargeant, entitled Protective Services for Children in Victoria: An Interim Report, was released in January 1989. This report (hereinafter the Fogarty Report) was commissioned by the Victorian Government in August 1988:“… to inquire into and advise it upon the operation of Victoria's child protection system and on measures to improve its effectiveness and efficiency.”

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Caplan, Dennis H., Diane J. Janvrin, and James M. Kurtenbach. "The Congressional Ban on Nonaudit Services: “Reasoned and Reasonable” or “Quack Corporate Governance”." Accounting and the Public Interest 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 73–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/api.2009.9.1.73.

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ABSTRACT: Accounting professionals, researchers, business leaders, and government officials have called for reform of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Critics question both the substance of the law and the legislative process by which it was enacted. Criticism of the process challenges whether the congressional hearings and other legislative steps that led to enactment of the bill were balanced and thorough, or whether political drivers made quick passage an imperative for lawmakers regardless of the merits of the legislation. This paper examines the congressional hearings in the context of a single provision of the Act: the ban that prohibits accounting firms from providing internal audit services to their external audit clients. We identify the arguments for and against the ban, and we examine the role these arguments played in the testimony that witnesses provided to the House and Senate committees most responsible for the legislation. We find that witnesses offered strong arguments both for and against the ban, and that lawmakers were well informed. We conclude that a reasonable person, listening to the testimony, could easily decide to support the ban. The evidence fails to support a prima facie assertion that the ban lacks merit, or the claim that it must have been politically motivated.

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O'Connor, Margaret, and Janet Philips. "Challenges of implementing voluntary assisted dying in Victoria, Australia." International Journal of Palliative Nursing 26, no. 8 (December 2, 2020): 425–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2020.26.8.425.

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Background: Staff working in community palliative care services are accustomed to the intimate conversations that a patient being at home can engender. Being at home can provide a safe space for a patient to express difficulties, including expressing a desire for hastened death. With the implementation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria in mid-2019, palliative care services have needed to review and adapt policies and practices to incorporate this new procedure. While it was anticipated that a small percentage of people would request access to voluntary assisted dying, in the wake of such significant change, there were numerous implications for palliative care services to consider. This paper describes both the organisational and individual changes undertaken by one community-based palliative care service, in anticipation of legalised assistance in dying. The range of responses to the issues raised are discussed, in preparation for, and in the early days of, voluntary assisted dying.

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Aulich, Chris. "Localising Human Services: A History of Local Government Human Services in Victoria - by Robert Lowell." Australian Journal of Public Administration 66, no. 3 (September 2007): 388–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2007.00550_8.x.

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Vagramenko, Tatiana. "Secret Operations of the Soviet Security Services against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ukraine (1949—1955)." ISTORIYA 12, no. 8 (106) (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840016688-5.

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This article reconstructs the history of one KGB operation against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ukraine, launched by the Ukrainian security services in 1951. The operation aimed to infiltrate the Jehovah’s Witness underground organization in Ukraine and to organize a Witness country committee as a covert operation. The plan was designed such that the Soviet security service became the head of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization, and the headquarters of the official Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society became a channel in their counter-intelligence operations. This article tells about the failures and unexpected side-effects of the secret operation caused by internal conflicts within the Soviet politics of religion. Paradoxically, in the context of a disintegrated Witness underground network, caused by the post-war deportations and mass arrests, severed communication channels with the Watch Tower Society and the absence of religious literature, the Soviet security service became an alternative communication channel between the faith communities and a source of religious reproduction (including the source of the production of Watch Tower literature). This study dwells upon historical materials from recently opened SBU (former KGB) archives in Ukraine.

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Penney, Randy. "Hemodialysis Unit at Renfrew Victoria Hospital." Healthcare Management Forum 8, no. 2 (July 1995): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0840-4704(10)60902-7.

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In June 1994, the Renfrew Victoria Hospital was selected as the first-ever recipient of the Health Care Quality Team Award in the “Small and Rural Provider” category. This award, offered by the Canadian College of Health Service Executives and 3M Health Care, was established to recognize health care organizations that have sustained measurable improvements in their network of services, and have done so through the use of a team. Renfrew Victoria Hospital's entry focused on the establishment of a hemodialysis unit for the residents of Renfrew County. This article summarizes the parameters of this award, as presented in our submission.

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Mohammed, Ali Dehmene. "The Financing Health System Problem in Algeria." International Research Journal of Management, IT & Social Sciences 3, no. 7 (July 1, 2016): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v3i7.150.

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The health sector in Algeria witnesses a great development, especially during the last two decades of the last century to coincide with the economic and social changes of the country. But despite the enormity of what the state spends on this sensitive sector in order to meet the growing demand for health services provided by the public or private sector, which, however, take advantage of these services was still below the required level where the sector remains vulnerable to various problems

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Coughlan, Felicity, and Renette Jarman. "Can the Intermediary System Work for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse?" Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 83, no. 5 (October 2002): 541–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.52.

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In South Africa, an intermediary system is attempting to reduce the trauma and secondary abuse often experienced by child witnesses in court cases involving sexual abuse. By separating the child from the formal courtroom and allowing an intermediary to relay questions and answers to the child via closed circuit television, it was hoped that the stress of the experience for these children would be reduced while retaining the rights of the accused to cross-examine witnesses and to a fair trial. This article reports on a major urban court in South Africa where intermediaries (social workers) have refused to continue offering their services. It also reports on the challenges and difficulties associated with offering the services. The authors further argue that immediate action is required if the system is to be saved. They also suggest how to address the needs and concerns of the intermediaries, thus further developing and improving the existing system. The authors close with recommendations for systems in other locations that might be considering the use of intermediaries in similar situations.

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McNair, Peter, and Stephen Duckett. "Funding Victoria's public hospitals: The casemix policy of 2000-2001." Australian Health Review 25, no. 1 (2002): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020072.

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On 1 July 1993 Victoria became the first Australian state to use casemix information to set budgets for its public hospitals commencing with casemix funding for inpatient services. Victoria's casemix funding approach now embracesinpatient, outpatient and rehabilitation services.

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Galbally, Rhonda. "Mental Health Promotion in Victoria: A Strategic Approach." Australasian Psychiatry 5, no. 1 (February 1997): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10398569709082086.

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Health promotion has proved to be crucial in most areas of health, for example, cardiovascular health, cancer control and injury prevention. However, mental health promotion has hitherto been a very poor cousin by comparison with funds spent on other health promotion areas, and also by comparison with funds spent on mental health services. This situation is understandable. First, there has been a need to shake mental health services out of antiquity to ensure that they not only meet fundamental standards of human rights, but also begin to develop a focus on rehabilitation. Second, the amorphous, unspecific and often haphazard nature of the few existing mental health promotion programs has, to a degree, given mental health promotion a bad name. As mental health promotion initiatives must inevitably relate to social and structural issues, the health content of mental health promotion has sometimes been hard to identify.

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McInnes, Judith A., and Joseph E. Ibrahim. "Preparation of residential aged care services for extreme hot weather in Victoria, Australia." Australian Health Review 37, no. 4 (2013): 442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah13001.

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Objectives. The purpose of this study was to describe preparations for extreme hot weather at Victorian public sector residential aged care services for the 2010−11 summer, and to examine the role of the Residential Aged Care Services Heatwave Ready Resource in this process. Method. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews of senior staff of Victorian public sector residential aged care services. Interviews were conducted at monthly intervals from November 2010 to March 2011, and data were analysed thematically. Results. All interviewees described pre-summer preparations for hot weather undertaken at the health services they represented. Staff awareness and experience, and having a heatwave plan, were reported to have facilitated heat preparedness, whereas challenges to preparations mainly concerned air conditioning. The Residential Aged Care Services Heatwave Ready Resource was used to inform heatwave plans, for staff and family education, and as an audit tool. Conclusions. An extensive and well-considered approach to minimisation of harm from extreme heat by a sample of residential aged care services is described, and the Residential Aged Care Services Heatwave Ready Resource is reported to have supported the heatwave preparedness process. What is known about the topic? Heatwaves cause illness and death and are likely to become more frequent and severe in the future. Residents of aged care services are particularly vulnerable to harm from heatwaves. The Residential Aged Care Services Heatwave Ready Resource has been developed to support staff of residential aged care services in Victoria to prepare for heatwaves. What does this paper add? This exploratory study provides insight into the types of preparations for extreme hot weather that are undertaken at Victorian residential aged care services before and during summer. What are the implications for practitioners? A combination of staff knowledge and experience, and having a heatwave plan, supported by a publication that includes educational resources and a checklist is reported to facilitate the preparedness of Victorian residential aged care services for extreme hot weather.

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Tobin, Margaret J. "Rural Psychiatric Services." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 30, no. 1 (February 1996): 114–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679609076079.

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Objective: The objective was to describe and evaluate a community mental health service developed during 1991–1992 in an attempt to meet the mental illness needs of an isolated rural community. The setting was the Grampians health region in Western Victoria: this region has an area of 45,000 square kilo-metres and a population of 182,000. Method: The method involved firstly describing the evolution of the service delivery model. This comprised a team of travelling psychiatrists and community psychiatric nurses which succeeded in providing a combined inpatient and outpatient service which was integrated with general practitioners. Secondly, diagnostic and case load descriptions of patients receiving service were compared for both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Results: The results were that reduced reliance on inpatient beds and increased consumer satisfaction were achieved. Conclusion: It was concluded that on initial evaluation of the service it was seen to be meeting its objective of treating the seriously mentally ill in an isolated rural community based setting.

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Gabriel, Paul. "The Development of Municipal Emergency Management Planning in Victoria, Australia." International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters 20, no. 3 (November 2002): 293–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/028072700202000302.

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In Australia, local government plays an essential role in emergency management, although not a provider of emergency services. The role of supporting emergency services and the community both during and after emergencies has been a traditional role. Added to this is an increasing responsibility as the focal point for the conduct of local mitigation using risk analysis, prioritization, and treatment under the methodology of emergency risk management. This role is part of a shift in the emphasis of emergency management in Australia away from the strong focus on emergencies and the emergency services, towards an emphasis on the sustainability of the community and its life in the context of the risk of loss posed by natural and other hazards. Models of municipal emergency risk management planning are presented to assist municipalities to connect or even integrate their emergency management planning processes with other similar community safety activities such as crime and injury prevention.

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