New regulations to improve the quality of early childhood education and care came into force in Australia in 2012. Using a simultaneous, structural model of labour supply and child care demand we predict the effects on the labour supply of partnered women, on demand for child care and on household finances for two-parent households in Australia. Using estimated cost impacts of this new National...

OBJECTIVE To describe a disaster recovery model focused on developing mental health services and capacity-building within a disparities-focused, community-academic participatory partnership framework. DESIGN Community-based participatory, partnered training and services delivery intervention in a post-disaster setting. SETTING Post-Katrina Greater New Orleans community. PARTICIPANTS More ...

BACKGROUND Filipino Americans have low rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and high CRC mortality. To reduce this disparity, we conducted a dissemination trial in which we offered two levels of technical assistance to community organizations to disseminate an evidence-based CRC screening promotion program among their Filipino American members. This report describes the recruitment of org...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Enrollment into acute stroke clinical trials is limited to experienced tertiary centers with emergency research infrastructure. Feasibility of remote enrollment via telemedicine into an acute thrombolytic clinical trial has never been demonstrated. METHODS Using telemedicine, our hub stroke research center partnered with two spoke community hospitals to jointly particip...

Providers, Clinicians, and CIOs Personas: detailed portraits of fictional characters representing the real viewpoints expressed by participants Executive Summary In April of 2012, the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) partnered with researchers from Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology to conduct research and gather community input on the goals, motivations, and concern...

The NUbots are an interdisciplinary RoboCup team from The University of Newcastle, Australia. The team has a history of strong contributions in the areas of machine learning and computer vision. The NUbots have participated in RoboCup leagues since 2002, placing first several times in the past. In 2014 the NUbots also partnered with the University of Newcastle Mechatronics Laboratory to partici...

Background The current literature proposing criteria and guidelines for collaborative health system research often fails to differentiate between: (a) various types of partnerships, (b) collaborations formed for the specific purpose of developing a research proposal and those based on long-standing relationships, (c) researcher vs. decision-maker initiatives, and (d) the underlying drivers for ...

Recommendations for implementing tango classes for persons with Parkinson disease" (2010). Physical Therapy Faculty Publications. Paper 35. 2 Abstract Several studies have recently been published regarding the physical and emotional benefits of Argentine tango dance for individuals for Parkinson disease (PD). These papers focused on the effects of the tango interventions rather than methods use...