Browsing Centre for Disability Research and Policy by subject "Australia"
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Addressing the barriers to accessing therapy services in rural and remote areas
Published 2012-08-01Purpose: Throughout the world, people with a disability who live in rural and remote areas experience difficulty accessing a range of community-based services including speech-, physioand occupational therapy. This paper ...Open AccessArticle -
Eligibility, the ICF and the UN Convention: Australian perspectives
Published 2010-04-01The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Australia, acts as a philosophical and moral statement and framework guiding integrated and strategic policy across the nation. Broad policy agreement has ...Open AccessArticle -
The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer
Published 2023As the culture of silence that once surrounded cancer has gradually given way to greater public awareness, normative visions of what cancer survivorship should entail have proliferated. These visions emphasise positivity ...Open AccessArticle -
The need for new models for delivery of therapy intervention to people with a disability in rural and remote areas of Australia
Published 2012-03-01Early therapy intervention by occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech pathologists (therapists) is recognised to yield benefits across the lifecourse (Carpenter, 2007; Law, 2002; Thomaidis, Kaderoglou, Stefou, ...Open AccessArticle -
Recruitment and retention of allied health professionals in the disability sector in rural and remote New South Wales, Australia
Published 2013-11-26Background: People with disability living in rural areas are vulnerable to the loss of access to allied health services due to a critical shortage of allied health professionals (AHPs). This study aimed to investigate ...Open AccessArticle -
Should I stay or should I go? Exploring the job preferences of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural Australia
Published 2015-01-01Introduction: The uneven distribution of allied health professionals (AHPs) in rural and remote Australia and other countries is well documented. In Australia, like elsewhere, service delivery to rural and remote communities ...Open AccessArticle