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Pension System in Poland: Performance of Pension Funds
Studies of Applied Economics, 2020 The significant increase of the old-age-dependency ratio in Poland after the collapse of the centrally planned economy required transformation of the retirement system to adopt it to the current situation. Therefore the essential reform of the pension system in Poland took place in 1999, when the one-pillar – pay as you go system was replaced by the ...
Krzysztof Kompa, Dorota Witkowska
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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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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims GLP‐1 medicines provide substantial cardio‐renal benefits for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and are increasingly used for weight loss. Most high‐income countries subsidize access for T2D with restrictions; use outside of these restrictions occurs through private prescriptions. Despite strong consumer demand, the extent of private access to GLP‐1 medicines
Michael O. Falster +10 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims This study aimed to investigate the incidence of low‐dose quetiapine initiation and associated factors in adults newly diagnosed with depression in primary care. Methods We obtained medication dispensing records, primary and secondary care diagnoses and employment status for antipsychotic‐naïve individuals aged 16–65 newly diagnosed with ...
Laura Purra +5 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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How an Unfunded Pension System looks like Defined Benefits but works like Defined Contributions: The German Pension Reform [PDF]
This paper describes the German pension reform process 1992-2007 with a stress on a remark-able development: the public pay-as-you-go-financed pension system has almost silently moved from a traditional defined benefit system to a system which works in ...
Anette Reil-Held +2 more
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