Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy in South Australia: a case for ‘centralized decentralization’

Ideas for Extending the Approach to Evaluating Health in All Policies in South Australia; Comment on “Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”

Since 2008, the government of South Australia has been using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to achieve their strategic plan (South Australia Strategic Plan of 2004). In this commentary, we summarize some of the strengths and contributions of the innovative evaluation framework that was developed by an embedded team of academic researchers. To inform how the use of HiAP is evaluated mo...

Centralization versus Decentralization 1 Running head: CENTRALIZATION VERSUS DECENTRALIZATION Centralized versus Decentralized Information Systems in Organizations

It has been discovered that in many organizations the information technology department is a separate entity, while in others each business unit incorporates their own information technology department. The former represents a centralized approach while the latter represents a decentralized approach. The centralized IT department suits some organizations better than others. However, it is becom...

A case of infant botulism in South Australia.

On 25 May 1998 a case of infant botulism was notified to the Communicable Disease Control Branch. The 6 month old female, from a northern country area of South Australia, was admitted to hospital with paralysis and was diagnosed initially on clinical grounds. She had decreased spontaneous movement, reduced anti-gravity movements, no head movements, and gag and cough reflexes were absent. She wa...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

The Case for Centralized Collections