Teaching Immigration: Informing and Elevating the Debate

Racism, Multiculturalism and the Immigration Debate

The past decade has seen the development of a major consensus within Australian society which has encompassed the reiteration that Australia is a tolerant and multicultural society. Moreover, it has been argued that the vestiges of racism that exist do so amongst only a small minority of the older Anglo-Australians, and that attitudes such as theirs are increasingly reprehensible in the eyes of...

Informing the Public Debate: Academic Research on Crime and Casinos

[The parliamentary debate on immigration and health in Spain].

OBJECTIVE Describing and analysing the Spanish Parliamentary debate on immigration and health. METHODS A systematic search regarding parliamentary initiatives (PI) on immigration and immigration and health was conducted from the beginning of the Spanish democratic period (1979 to 2007). A protocol for collecting information was used to identify the parliamentary debate's main characteristics ...

Improving access to hospice care: informing the debate.

The most frequently cited policy solution for improving access to hospice care for patients and families is to expand hospice eligibility criteria under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. However, the substantial implications of such a policy change have not been fully articulated or evaluated. This paper seeks to identify and describe the implications of expanding Medicare Hospice Benefit eligibili...

Changing times, changing opinions: history informing the family presence debate.

Significant debate currently exists within emergency medicine over whether a patient’s family should be allowed to observe a critical resuscitation in the emergency department (ED) (‘‘family presence’’). Proponents of this practice would like family members to have the choice to be present during these desperate efforts that are often the final moments of patients’ lives. However, many medical ...