Australian community sport extreme heat policies: Limitations and opportunities for improvement

Australian immunisation registers: established foundations and opportunities for improvement.

The National Immunisation Program Schedule in Australia is formulated and funded nationally under the population-wide Medicare system. The policy is implemented by the eight state and territory jurisdictions. The national immunisation registers consist of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR), and, more recently, the National Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program Regist...

Extreme heat events--a community calamity.

a growing global concern that teeming millions might be at greater risk of death, disease and disability due to extreme heat events in the tropics and other regions. It has been estimated that about 48 million people were affected in Asia during the year 2008, due to climatological, geophysical, hydrological and meteorological events. Despite projection of changing climate and occurrence of inc...

Extreme heat changes post-heat wave community reassembly

Climate forecasts project further increases in extremely high-temperature events. These present threats to biodiversity, as they promote population declines and local species extinctions. This implies that ecological communities will need to rely more strongly on recovery processes, such as recolonization from a meta-community context. It is poorly understood how differences in extreme event in...

Social drug policies for sport.

Polymer recycling: opportunities and limitations.

The disposal of polymer solid waste by means other than landfilling is necessary. The various approaches-source reduction, incineration, degradation, composting, and recycling-all have their roles and must be employed in an integrated manner. Where appropriate, recycling has ecological advantages, but its application is dependent upon the feasibility of collection, sorting, and/or compatibiliza...