Kathryn Trees

This chapter focuses on the factors influencing Mekong Delta farmers’ satisfaction with health insurance services in the context of agricultural practice. The study identifies three key factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction with health insurance services: participation and payment procedures, hospital service quality, and the support of hospital and social insurance staff. Statistical analysis indicates that these factors significantly impact farmers’ satisfaction levels, with women rating health insurance services higher than men. Moreover, the study underscores the importance of improving access to quality care and enhancing client satisfaction to address the challenges faced by farmers in accessing healthcare services. The research employs a mixed-method approach, including surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions, to gather empirical data from 180 farming households in An Giang, Can Tho, and Soc Trang provinces. The chapter recommends policy reforms to address the socio-economic and environmental changes in the Mekong Delta, advocating for the integration of technological innovations such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic tools to enhance healthcare accessibility. The study’s implications extend to the Vietnam Ministry of Health and Social Security Agency, providing insights to identify areas for improvement in health insurance policies and social security systems. The research contributes to the ongoing discourse on enhancing healthcare services for rural populations, with implications for policymakers, healthcare providers, and social security agencies.

At the time of writing, the global pandemic COVID-19 is an ongoing world health crisis. One of the many ramifications of the pandemic is the impact on universities and colleges worldwide (Leung et al. 2020; UNESCO 2020; WHO Regional Office for Europe 2020). The disruption to classes that would usually involve face-to-face learning, the discontinuation of exchange programmes, and the spread of the virus, in general, has led to alternative methods of education using distance or online learning…

The procedures and practice of law in any state can often only be found stored in the heads of established legal practitioners. This hard earned knowledge of lawyers who practise on a daily basis is shared with subscribers to the Lawyers Practice Manual Western Australia. The manual 19s overall aim is to assist subscribers to gain practical insight quickly by providing a step-by-step guide with an overview of the law relevant to each practice area covered, supported by tools, eg, practical hints, precedents, letters and standard forms. This manual is becoming well established as an integral part of the legal fraternity in Western Australia.

This chapter discusses how community processes may be facilitated through the use of information systems (IS), developed via a highly participative methodology. It examines the utility of several approaches to modeling community information requirements. By way of illustration, it describes progress on the participative development of the Ieramugadu Cultural Information System (ICIS). This project is designed to develop and evaluate innovative procedures for elicitation, analysis, storage and communication of indigenous cultural heritage information. It is investigating culturally appropriate IS design techniques, multimedia approaches, and ways to ensure protection of secret/sacred information. Development of ICIS is being carried out in close cooperation with an indigenous community in Western Australia.

In this volume, an international group of scholars address the multiplicity of issues concerning the presentations to students of post-colonial literature. This collection focuses upon specific strategies for teaching post-colonial literature within particular political environments. The contributors offer specific course outlines covering the literature of a number of post-colonial regions, as well as articles on teaching post-colonialism. The individual chapters survey the changes and ideas in the discourse of "Commonwealth literature" since the emergence of this particular field. The essays are historical, formulating a cohesive sense of past and present.

When Sally Morgan's My Place was first published in 1987 it was described as "the sort of Australian history which hasn't been written before, and which we desperately need"; as a "triumphant story" and "profoundly moving". The story of her family's recovery of Aboriginal identity has struck a powerful chord with all Australians. The book has sold thousands of copies in many editions. Whose Place? is the first book to examine why Sally Morgan's story matters so much. Its essays discuss the many ways My Place can be read: as autobiography; as history, oral history and counter-history; as a political intervention in the 'story' of white Australia; as a detective story that discovers an Aboriginal identity for its writer.