Sailing SCHIP through troubled waters.

Sailing on Troubled Waters: Diversional Therapy in Australia

This paper seeks to explore the notion of Therapeutic Recreation (TR) in an Australian context. It does so through first reviewing the historical development of Diversional Therapy (DT) services in Australia and then examining the impact on service delivery of ongoing national reform in the health and community care sectors. The paper suggests that such reforms have created a somewhat fluid sta...

Aquaculture Navigates Through Troubled Waters

Fishing in the ‘Troubled’ Waters: Recognizing, Respecting, and Rewarding Local Ecological Knowledge, Innovations and Practices Concerning Aquatic Biological Diversity

Studies of indigenous ecological knowledge are getting attention not only among resource managers, policy-planners and Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) but also within and among local and indigenous communities themselves. During modernization, many of these communities have realized the threat of knowledge erosion and are attempting to take control of such knowledge, whi...

Troubled waters: remaining a beacon amid change.

The Effects of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on Children’s Health Insurance Coverage

This paper analyzes the effects of availability of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on children’s SCHIP enrollment and Medicaid enrollment in addition to more commonly focused overall public and private coverage and the uninsured rate. Linear probability models with controls for state and quarter of year fixed effects were estimated using data from the National Health Inter...