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Educational Issues For Family Day Care: Results Of A South Australian Survey, Peter J. Camilleri, Rosemary Kennedy
Educational Issues For Family Day Care: Results Of A South Australian Survey, Peter J. Camilleri, Rosemary Kennedy
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The training of family day care providers has been piecemeal, informal and of questionable quality. Their training has not been a serious issue because of the widely held view that family day care is an extension of the 'mothering' skills of the provider. This view of family day care as a 'home away from home' and the perception that it is essentially an extension of the normal domestic duties of women has mitigated against the development of formalised training. The push towards better and more importantly formalised training for family day care providers has arisen through a variety of reasons, …
Influence Of Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity And An Educational Brochure On Compliance With A Postal Faecal Occult Blood Test., Julie M. King, Gregory Fairbrother, Cristina J. Thompson, David Morris
Influence Of Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity And An Educational Brochure On Compliance With A Postal Faecal Occult Blood Test., Julie M. King, Gregory Fairbrother, Cristina J. Thompson, David Morris
Australian Health Services Research Institute
The study aimed to determine if socioeconomic status and ethnicity affect compliance with postal faecal occult blood test screening, and if compliance can be increased by adding an educational brochure. A pilot intervention study was used in socioeconomically defined postcodes and defined census collection districts of the Southern Sydney Area Health Service. The study population of men and women aged 45 to 75 years was selected from general practice lists in the defined postcodes. Samples were comparable for age, sex, and socioeconomic indices. Compliance, using a general practitioner letter alone, was: for the Australian middle‐socioeconomic status sample, 65.8 per cent …