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A Review into eHealth Services and Therapies: Potential for Virtual Therapeutic Communities - Supporting People with Severe Personality Disorder

, 2013
eHealth has expanded hugely over the last fifteen years and continues to evolve, providing greater benefits for patients, health care professionals and providers alike.
Good, Alice, Sambhanthan, Arunasalam
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Vulnerability to risky sexual behavior among patients with severe mental illness in Uganda

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Background The relationship between severe mental illness and risky sexual behaviors, defined as acts associated with a higher risk level is notably significant in sub-Saharan Africa.
C. Birungi, J. Ssebunnya, N. Kiwanuka, N. Nakasujja, E. Kinyanda   +4 more
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Assessment of functional disability and associated factors among people with severe mental illness attending care at public hospitals in Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open
Objective This study aimed to assess functional disability and associated factors among people with severe mental illness attending public hospitals in Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia.Setting An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted in ...
Betelhem Mulugeta Worku, Niguse Yigzaw, Getachew Tesfaw, Seblewongel Tinsae, Abiy Mulugeta   +4 more
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Do financial incentives increase treatment adherence in people with severe mental illness? A systematic review [PDF]

, 2010
Published by CUP from 2011.
Burton, A, Marougka, S, Priebe, S
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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, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Barriers and facilitators of accessing primary healthcare for patients with severe mental illness: a mixed-methods systematic review using framework synthesis

BMC Psychiatry
Background Serious Mental Illness (SMI) is associated with significant physical health inequalities and a shortened life expectancy of approximately 20 years compared to the general population.
Elena Malogianni, Modhie F. Alenezi, Laoise Renwick   +2 more
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Stigma and public attitudes toward euthanasia or assisted suicide for psychiatric conditions: results from a general population survey in Germany

BJPsych Open
Background With growing numbers of countries legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide (EAS), there is a debate as to whether EAS should also be available to people with severe, treatment-resistant mental illness. Excluding mental illness as a legitimate
Georg Schomerus, Stephanie Schindler, Eva Baumann, Matthias C. Angermeyer   +3 more
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Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty, Jessica Hill, Jennifer Smith‐Merry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source