Foreword.The 21st issue of the Social Policy Journal of New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. comes with a new cover and and a new schedule of publication--three issues per year instead of two. The journal will continue to provide a forum for debate across the spectrum of social policy topics, and will now accommodate more papers, more frequently, with the addition of occasional special-theme issues. The papers in Issue 21 cover health, social welfare, human rights, social capital, employment, training, gambling, and a range of research-oriented topics. Among the health papers are two based on a significant programme of research into the health of women on the Domestic Purposes Benefit, funded by the Health Research Council. Maureen Baker and David Tippen report on the findings of a qualitative interview study, while Heather Worth and Karen McMillan describe the results of a postal questionnaire survey. Both studies explore the impact of health on the entry of these women into the workforce. Liz Jones Liz Jones is an English journalist and writer. She is currently the fashion editor for the Daily Mail. Previously to this she was the editor of British Marie Claire. provides an update on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and the Widows Benefit, describing the changes that have been put into place under the 2002 reforms. In the employment arena, focusing on New Zealand's employment rights laws, Linda Hill discusses pay equity for women in the context of international conventions that frame this as a basic human right. A paper by Ottilie Stolte looks at the Training Opportunities programme, aimed at helping individuals overcome impediments IMPEDIMENTS, contracts. Legal objections to the making of a contract. Impediments which relate to the person are those of minority, want of reason, coverture, and the like; they are sometimes called disabilities. Vide Incapacity. 2. to employment, and examines how its training providers are evaluated. The Gambling Act 2003 provides the motivation for three of the papers in this volume, all of which delve into issues relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc problem gamblers. Lorna Dyall argues that given gambling's impact on Maori, the legislation that controls it should rather be modelled on the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996. The emergence of one-stop gambling shops and virtual gaming is explored by Bruce Curtis and Terry Austrin. The third gambling paper, by Phillida Bunkle Phillida Bunkle (1944 - ) is a former New Zealand politician. She was born in Sussex, England. She was an MP from 1996 to 2002, representing the Alliance. Bunkle joined the Green Party (a member of the Alliance) in 1992, and unsuccessfully stood as an Alliance and John Lepper, proposes that future research on gambling in New Zealand move from prevalence studies towards a focus on the socio-economic foundations of gambling behaviour. Linda Taylor reports The Taylor Report is a document, whose development was overseen by Lord Taylor of Gosforth, concerning the aftermath and causes of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. An interim report was published in August 1989, and the final report was published in January 1990. on an initiative of the Department of Child Youth and Family Services, the Stronger Communities Action fund, which encourages communities to identify their own social service needs. Her paper examines the impact of this programme on the community's levels of social capital. The development of social capital was found to be an important theme at the University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW or colloquially as New South, is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. during the annual conference run by its Social Policy Research Centre. Peter Martin, Maire Dwyer and Peter Carr review the conference, taking a distinctively New Zealand perspective on it. Primary health organisations Primary Health Organisations (PHOs), in New Zealand, are a collection of health providers, which are funded on a capitation basis by the New Zealand Government via its District Health Board. are aimed at improving access to health care, and the risks and potential of this new policy approach are discussed by Ross Barnett and Pauline Barnett. Focusing on the sexual health of young people, Sue Jackson describes the findings of a study aimed at identifying New Zealand's research needs in this area. Mervyl McPherson uses demographic analysis Demographic analysis uses administrative records to develop an independent estimate of the population [1]. Demographic analysis estimates are often considered a reliable standard for judging the accuracy of the census information gathered at any time. of successive cohorts to examine their different circumstances with respect to the availability of extended family support, state support and economic status. She discusses the implications for social policy for addressing the particular vulnerabilities of each cohort. Rewarding Service by Neill Atkinson describes the vulnerabilities of successive cohorts of public servants, in a history of the Government Superannuation Fund Noun 1. superannuation fund - a fund reserved to pay workers' pensions when they retire from service pension fund fund, monetary fund - a reserve of money set aside for some purpose reviewed by Ann Reeves from a strictly interested civil servant's point of view. Issue 21 is rounded out with a review by Peter Davis of a conference on international developments in the area of saving and sharing research data. He draws attention to some of the concerns identified by custodians
The Custodians is terminology in the Bahá'í Faith, which refers to nine Hands of the Cause assigned specifically to work at the Bahá'í World Centre in attendance to the Guardian of the Faith. of data sets in New Zealand. I invite you to enjoy this issue, and its wide range of stimulating papers. Nicholas Pole General Manager Centre for Social Research and Evaluation Te Pokapu Rangahau Arotake Hapori |
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