People living with disability in Australia face additional challenges compared to other people within the community. These challenges include having poorer access to health services, lower levels of engagement in meaningful education and fewer employment opportunities (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010a). Consequently, Australians with disabilities are 2.5 times more likely to experience po...

OBJECTIVE To describe the nursing workforce in very remote Australia, characteristics and key issues. METHODS Data were collected from four main sources: the refined CRANAplus database of remote health facilities; the 2006 census which provided population and percentage of Indigenous people in communities in very remote Australia; a national survey on occupational stress among nurses and an e...

The article considers the need to prepare bachelors for 227 "Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy" educational and professional program on basis of competence approach.
 future specialist in physical therapy, occupational therapy is considered as a person who purposefully acquires qualifications accordance with chosen degree process specially organized activities higher education, aimed ...

BACKGROUND Although there is consistent evidence that higher levels of education are associated with better health and reduced disease risk, there is little evidence on whether this is true throughout the lifecourse. This study examines whether additional higher educational qualifications acquired later on in adulthood are associated with a reduction in coronary heart disease (CHD) risk over an...

There is no parity of esteem between academic and vocational qualifications in the labour market. Data from the Labour Force Survey show that on average men and women working full-time with academic qualifications at one level in the national qualifications framework earn about the same as men and women with vocational qualifications set notionally one level higher. So those with A levels have ...

Using secondary data to obtain results which were representative of the UK population, this research identifies the key components of the persisting gender pay gap. It then quantifies them to assess the contribution of each factor to the remaining gender pay gap in the UK, something which few studies have done before. The research finds that of the factors which explain the gender pay gap, the ...