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Barriers
to Service Delivery for Young Pregnant Women and Mothers
This
report shows that the barriers to service delivery for young
pregnant women and mothers fall into three main categories:
Common barriers; Barriers specific to particular services;
and Barriers specific to vulnerable subgroups.
The
report also finds that the above barriers occur in complex
relationships with each other that can become self-perpetuating.
The more barriers a young woman faces, and/or the more vulnerabilities
that she experiences, the more difficult it is for her to
access services, and the more difficult it will be for service
providers to accommodate her needs. To read the report visit
www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/VIA/nyars/$file/NYARS.pdf
Cyberbullying
and Online Teens
This
report from the Pew Internet & American Live Project
looks at the burgeoning worldwide issue of cyberbullying.
Although the focus is on 12–17-year-olds, this is such
an important issue that we believe it falls under the umbrella
of the care and education of children. This doument may
be of help to families with older children.
According
to the report:
'About
one third (32%) of all teenagers who use the internet say
they have been targets of a range of annoying and potentially
menacing online activities – such as receiving threatening
messages; having their private emails or text messages forwarded
without consent; having an embarrassing picture posted without
permission; or having rumors about them spread online.'
Visit
www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%20Cyberbullying%20Memo.pdf
Where
to seek help for a mental disorder?
National survey of the beliefs of Australian youth and
their parents
Anthony
F Jorm, Annemarie Wright and Amy J Morgan
To determine
the intentions that young people have for seeking help if
they were to develop a mental disorder. A National survey
of the beliefs of Australian youth and their parents has
been conducted and the results appear in a recent edition
of the Medical Journal of Australia.
Visit
www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_10_191107/jor10336_fm.pdf
to read the report.
Northern
Territory Intervention
Protecting little children’s health — or not?
Peter W Tait
The
timing of the federal government’s intervention to
protect little children in the Northern Territory has been
viewed by some with cynicism. And well it might be. The
intervention needs to be seen in the broader context of
what could be called the “white blindfold” view
of history. The white blindfold obscures the benefits that
modern Australians have inherited as a consequence of European
colonisation of this country. It hides any understanding
of how dispossession of the Aboriginal first nations has
resulted in the poverty, illness and violence that the government
is now, belatedly, seeking to rectify.
Read
the report at www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/tai11292_fm.html
Pain
in children
Dr Lisa Nissen
‘Are
we under treating pain in children? This is a question that
has been raised in the medical and lay press at various
times over the past few years. Yet it has been more than
25 years since the first reports were published highlighting
the inadequate treatment of children’s pain. Dr Lisa
Nissen asks if anything has changed in our understanding,
assessment and management of pain in children
over the past 25 years.
Read
the report at www.psa.org.au/site.php?id=2032
Improving
services for children in hospital
Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
This
improvement review of services for children in hospital
was based on aspects of the hospital standard of the National
Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity
Services, published by the Government in 2003. The national
service framework sets the standards for services across
health, education and social care for children and their
families over the next 10 years.
The
review looked at services received by children throughout
hospitals – not just in paediatric departments. It
focused on those areas in which healthcare organisations
(trusts) should have already made improvements. In particular
the review asked:
- are
children treated in environments that are child friendly,
specifically dedicated to children or on children’s
surgical lists?
- are
services available at a number of locations which are
close to patients’ homes?
- do
services have appropriate cover from a range of staff?
For example, nurses, play staff, pain teams and those
able to provide emergency life support?
- are
nursing, surgical, anaesthetist and paediatric medical
staff trained in a number of essential or desirable skills
for caring for children in hospital?
- are
services organised so that staff who come into contact
with children can maintain their skills, by seeing sufficient
numbers of cases involving children?
The
review found that some parts of the NHS needs to do more
to deliver consistent high quality care for children. It
showed that the quality of care provided to children in
inpatients’ services was good, with 71% of trusts scoring
good or excellent and almost all children (99%) are treated
in children-only wards. It also showed that trusts have
made a number of improvements to hospital environments to
meet the needs of children.
To read
the full report visit: www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/_db/_documents/
children_improving_services_Tagged.pdf
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