Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide +4 more
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Regional disparities in emergency medical services in Poland: a preliminary study. [PDF]
BMC Emerg MedŻuratyński P +4 more
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A Regional Economic Policy for Colombia [PDF]
This paper proposes a framework for a regional economic policy in Colombia. The regional characteristics and disparities of the country are studied, and regional disparities are shown to be both significant and persistent over time.
Gerson Javier pérez +2 more
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Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Regional disparities and predictors of childhood diarrhea in Ethiopia: a multilevel logistic regression analysis. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthAchamyeleh H +17 more
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Australian 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
Beyond the cross-sectional snapshot: longitudinal trends, regional disparities, and the pandemic-related disruption of spirometry in Brazil. [PDF]
Respir Res Clin PractBrum-Antunes M +4 more
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Regional Labour Market Developments in Transition: A Survey of the Empirical Literature [PDF]
We summarize the empirical literature on regional labour market development in transition. This literature suggests that transition has been associated with increased regional disparities and there is some indication of polarisation.
Peter Huber
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Temporal trends and regional disparities in costs and affordability of non-insulin antidiabetic drugs in China, 2015-2022: a retrospective observational study. [PDF]
BMJ OpenLiu X +7 more
europepmc +1 more source