INTRODUCTION Medical schools are in general over-represented by students from high socio-economic status backgrounds. The University of Western Australia Medical School has been progressively widening the participation of students from a broader spectrum of the community both through expanded selection criteria and quota-based approaches for students of rural, indigenous and other socio-educati...

In river basin management, often a range of models exist which can be used to describe underlying physical, socio-economic and ecological processes of interest. The availability of complex models as management tools is growing as the power of computers increases. Models are normally selected based on the conditions that they ‘best’ fit a particular set of data (Forster, 2000; Wasserman, 2000; B...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between education level and food purchasing behaviour and the contribution of dietary knowledge to this relationship; and the association between household income and purchasing behaviour and the contribution made by subjective perceptions about the cost of healthy food. DESIGN AND SETTING The study was conducted in Brisbane City (Australia) in 2000. The ...