Social Policy Journal of New Zealand articles from December 2000

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand archives from December 2000

FOREWORD.
December 1, 2000... The 29th of October marked New Zealand's inaugural national Children's Day. In keeping with this event, the 15th issue of the Social Policy Journal has a strong focus on children's issues: four papers that range across the fields of health,...

CONSISTENT OR CONFLICTING? SEXUAL HEALTH LEGISLATION AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S RIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND(1).
December 1, 2000... Abstract This paper reviews current legislative provisions for young people to access sexual health services and sexual health education in New Zealand. The paper focuses specifically on access to contraceptive and abortion services, and...

HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN THE NEW ZEALAND POLICY CONTEXT.
December 1, 2000... Abstract Assessing the health impact of policy outside the health sector is a key part of public health policy making. Policy makers use health impact assessment to improve, promote and protect the health of populations. This paper defines...

REORIENTING FAMILY SERVICES: THE PROFESSIONAL RESPONSE TO SUDDEN UNEXPECTED DEATHS IN INFANCY -- ISSUES AND PROTOCOLS.
December 1, 2000... Abstract This paper discusses key service and support issues faced by families who have experienced a sudden unexplained death of an infant (SUDI), the majority of which are from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), within an environment...

DEBATING A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR CHILDREN FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
December 1, 2000... Abstract The recent "Seminar on Children's Policy" had the central objective of launching the development of a New Zealand children's policy and research agenda. This paper outlines some of the ideas and issues that have been raised as...

MAURI TU: THE TOMOANA RESOURCE CENTREAN INTERVENTION FOLLOWING JOB LOSS.
December 1, 2000... Abstract Job loss has been an all too frequent part of the New Zealand economic landscape in the past two decades. Job loss is also associated with risks to the well-being of individuals, families and communities. Central to this...

EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY: THE SPECIAL CASE OF PACIFIC STUDENTS.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Abstract A causal relationship between aspirations and achievement is widely recognised by the sociology of education. Bourdieu, for example, has argued that students "internalise the odds" of their social group and thus reproduce these...

DIVERSITY AS A PRODUCTIVE RESOURCE: EMPLOYMENT OF IMMIGRANTS FROM NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING BACKGROUNDS IN NEW ZEALAND.
December 1, 2000... Abstract The past decade has been marked by increasing diversity in the New Zealand population, principally as the result of a more open immigration policy that aims to build human capital by targeting skilled, qualified immigrants,...

MONITORING THE CHANGING SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF NEW ZEALANDERS.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Abstract An agenda for developing a systematic, comprehensive and coherent set of annual social indicators using available statistics is advanced. Such indicators would allow the changing social conditions of New Zealanders to be regularly...

THE ECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH STATUS PROJECT.
December 1, 2000... Abstract The increasing use of the Household Economic Survey for policy purposes raises issues about the assumptions that are used for transforming the unit records into aggregates that underpin the social policy analysis. This paper...

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND THE COMMUNITY.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Public Ownership and the Community is Peter McKinlay's third book prepared for the Institute of Policy Studies since 1987 on matters pertaining to public sector reform. The focus of this volume is the restructuring of New Zealand's trustee...

RISK AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The concepts of risk and risk management have a long intellectual history. Probably most people are familiar with the investment relationship between risk and financial return, with adopting a portfolio approach to spreading risk in investment,...