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Using Federal Nondiscrimination Laws to Avoid ERISA: Securing Protection From Transgender Discrimination in Employee Health Benefit Plans [PDF]
, 2018 Recent attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the potential rollback of the interpretation of the protections the Act affords transgender people put transgender people at risk of being denied services and coverage for gender-affirming care. This
Schaaff, Bridget
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Access to healthcare for people seeking and refused asylum in Great Britain: a review of evidence [PDF]
, 2018 This research report is a review of evidence looking at the barriers people seeking or refused asylum face in trying to access healthcare services in the UK, and what may help them to do so more easily.
Friedland, J +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Securing a Healthy Future: The Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard on Child Health System Performance, 2011 [PDF]
, 2011 Ranks states on twenty indicators of healthcare access, affordability, prevention and treatment, potential for healthy lives, and health system equity for children.
Ashley-Kay Fryer +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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Comparative analysis of mental capacity legislation within the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017 with the devolved nations of the United Kingdom. [PDF]
Indian J Psychiatry, 2023 Dalvi MM, Mudholkar S, Dhadphale M.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison +5 more
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Mental health law profile: the United Arab Emirates
BJPsych International, 2015 There are two federal laws in the UAE from 1981 that are specific to people with mental illnesses and disabilities. Efforts are presently being made to develop other laws addressing the protection of the vulnerable population, including women, children ...
Ghanem Alhassani, Ossama T. Osman
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