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Australian Practitioners' Beliefs, Confidence, and Training Needs for Delivering Behaviour Support to Children and Young People in Out‐of‐Home Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) frequently present with complex behavioural needs. In New South Wales (NSW), behaviour support plans (BSPs) are mandated when restrictive practices, including psychotropic medication, are used. Little research has examined whether the statutory workforce is adequately prepared to meet behaviour support ...
Manisha Abayakoon Stanborough   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contingent Valuation Method:CVM

open access: yesJournal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, 2001
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Regression Trees and Contingent Valuation

Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2007), 2007
We discuss the use of regression trees in the contingent valuation problem. A method is proposed for valuation that exploits surrogate variables. The method is applied to Boston housing data to assess the dependence of house values on a variable related to air pollution.
openaire   +1 more source

Appraising the use of contingent valuation

Health Economics, 1992
AbstractThe valuation of treatments and health states has been pursued in a number of ways. Most predominant are contingent valuation (CV), QALYs, and HYEs. CV—that is, willingness to pay and willingness to accept—is the only one of these methods that can be consistent with welfare economic theory, but, as discussed by Gafni (1990), in order to do so ...
G C, Morrison, M, Gyldmark
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Insensitivity to Scope in Contingent Valuation Studies

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2012
The credibility of contingent valuation studies has been questioned because of the potential occurrence of scope insensitivity, i.e. that respondents do not react to higher quantities or qualities of a good.The aim of this study was to examine the extent of scope insensitivity and to assess the relevance of potential explanations that may help to shed ...
Sogaard, Rikke   +2 more
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Contingent valuation and qualitative democracy

Environmental Politics, 1996
(1996). Contingent valuation and qualitative democracy. Environmental Politics: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 752-759.
openaire   +2 more sources

CONTINGENT VALUATION OF LANDSCAPE.

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport, 1999
Current methods for assessing the impact of road schemes do not incorporate a monetary value to the loss of landscape caused by a new road. The contingent valuation method (CVM) offers the opportunity to derive a value equal to the preservation benefits of alternative schemes which do not adversely affect the landscape. This study identifies the values
B R BAMBER, G A KHOURY
openaire   +1 more source

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