Social Policy Journal of New Zealand articles from March 2004

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand archives from March 2004

Foreword.
March 1, 2004... The 21st issue of the Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 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...

Equal pay for work of equal value: making human rights and employment rights laws work together.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This paper backgrounds the policy issues concerning equal pay for work of equal value and offers some thoughts on how human rights and employment rights could work together to ensure pay equity. Renewed interest in pay equity in...

Gambling: a social hazard.
March 1, 2004... Abstract Gambling needs to be reframed as a social hazard rather than a harmless leisure pursuit. Maori are at particular risk of the adverse effects of gambling, and the government's obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi should be the...

The desegregation of gambling media and the emergence of a single form of gambling.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This paper compares the findings of government reviews of gambling in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. It focuses on the desegregation of gambling media, a process that makes possible one-stop gambling venues where different...

Primary health care in New Zealand: problems and policy approaches.
March 1, 2004... Abstract Primary health care in New Zealand has been funded by a partial fee-for-service payment from the state for consultations and pharmaceuticals, supplemented by substantial co-payments from patients. Despite some targeting according...

Building social capital through devolved decision making: the stronger communities action fund.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This paper examines the impact on community levels of social capital of an initiative by the Department of Child Youth and Family Services, the Stronger Communities Action Fund. The initiative has the goals of testing models of...

Ill-prepared for the labour market: health status in a sample of single mothers on welfare.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This paper present the results of a survey of the health of a group of lone mothers receiving the Domestic Purposes Benefit who were not exempt from work test for any reasons related to their health, to introduce a discussion of...

More than just another obstacle: health, domestic purposes beneficiaries, and the transition to paid work.
March 1, 2004... Abstract The difficulties faced by sole mothers in the welfare-to-work transition are well documented, but policy researchers tend to focus on "employability" issues rather than the known relationship between poverty and poor health. This...

Note on the 2002 domestic purposes benefit and widows benefit reforms.
March 1, 2004... Baker and Tippin's research (2004) was undertaken when the 1999 Work Test policy was in place, under which Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and Widows Benefit (WB) recipients were expected to participate in employment or employment-focused...

Identifying future research needs for the promotion of young people's sexual health in New Zealand.
March 1, 2004... Abstract An increasing focus on the sexual health status of New Zealand youth has followed in the wake of somewhat alarming statistics on abortion rates, sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy. The call for further New...

The measurement of training opportunities course outcomes: an effective policy tool?
March 1, 2004... Abstract Training Opportunities is an active labour market policy initiative, and part of a response to the entrenched problems of unemployment in Aotearoa New Zealand. The funding and implementation of Training Opportunities are...

Cohort vulnerability to lack of extended family support: the implications for social policy.
March 1, 2004... Abstract Recent decades in New Zealand and other Western countries have seen a move away from state support to increasing reliance on family and oneself. This paper presents a cohort analysis of the potential supply of and demand for...

What do we know about gambling in New Zealand?
March 1, 2004... Abstract A public health approach to gambling policy depends upon careful socioeconomic analysis to guide resource allocation to education, information provision and treatment. This paper argues that existing research does not provide the...

Australian social policy conference 2003.
March 1, 2004... The 8th Australian Social Policy Conference was held in July 2003 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. (1) The three-day conference, sponsored and run by the National Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) based at the University's...

Rewarding service: a history of the Government Superannuation Fund by Neill Atkinson.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... This slim volume, Rewarding Service, published by the Otago University Press, documents the history of the Government Superannuation Fund from its establishment in 1948 through a host of reforms, and concludes with remarks on the environment...

Saving and sharing research data: issues of policy and practice.
March 1, 2004... Late in November 2003 Wellington hosted a one-day conference on the policy and practice of saving and sharing research data. Sponsored by the Health Research Council, (1) the conference brought together speakers--both local and...