Editorial
Welcome to the July 2011 edition of i2P E-Magazine.
A range of strategic issues are looked at this month, primarily in the form of social media and its impact on pharmacy and other health professions.
Social media can adversely affect the reputations of pharmacists if forms of personal behaviour are picked up and populate various Facebook or other similar sites.
The facility for correct use to occur is even available on the i2P site when the need to share becomes important. Kay Dunkley explores these issues in her feature article “Social and Electronic Media and Health Professionals”.
Columns
Loretta Marron BSc: Health Watch
Barry Urquhart: Marketing Focus
Harvey Mackay: Strategic Thinking
Mark Neuenschwander: I`ve been thinking about...Recent Comments
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Hospital News
Staff Writer: Australia’s first fully digital hospital recognised by Private Hospitals Association of Queensland | open full screen
Staff Writer: Macquarie University Hospital opens new clinic to help weekend athletes. | open full screen
Peter Sayers: High Prescription Error Rates Prevail in E.Prescriptions and Hospital Settings | open full screen
Health Politics
Staff Writer: Ending the vaccine blame game: time for a no-fault compensation scheme | open full screen
Neil Johnston: Unlabelled Cigarettes - the Next Logical Step After ThatClimate Change
Staff Writer: New global plant database will lead to more reliable predictions of climate change effects | open full screen
EPublications
Macquarie climate change project to share in $4.2 million of research funding.
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The Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) announced a project by Macquarie University researchers as one the successful applicants to share in $4.2 million of funding.
Awarded in the category of Terrestrial Biodiversity, the project will determine future invasive plant threats under climate change.
Led by Professor Lesley Hughes and Associate Professor Michelle Leishman, the project is in collaboration with Dr Paul Downey at the University of Canberra and representatives from the Department of Primary Industry in Victoria, the NSW Department of Industry and Investment, and the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage.
Professor Hughes and her team will receive $274,150 to provide the first comprehensive,national assessment of the risks of weeds emerging from naturalised plants.
“In Australia, invasive plants cost the economy at least $4 billion annually, not inc
luding the cost to terrestrial biodiversity. As many invasive species may be advantaged by climate change, this figure will increase significantly.
With around 15 species added to this list each year, these species represent a ticking time bomb of future weed problems”, said professor Hughes.
Of the 29,000 introduced plant species in Australia, approximately 400 have become significant weeds and a further 2700 have become ‘naturalised’, establishing self-sustaining populations in the wild.
The results of this project could help to identify plant species under threat and make a significant impact on this problem.
One of the founding members of Climate Scientists Australia, Professor Hughes has been a member of the Expert Advisory Group on biodiversity and climate change for the federal Department of Climate Change and has also acted as an advisor and consultant on climate change-related issues for many organisations including WWF Australia, Earthwatch and the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority.
Return to homeResearch Reports
Dr Andrew Byrne & Associates: Is levo-methadone the answer to so-called cardiac complications? Practice Development
Peter Sayers: Pharmacist Problems -Oversupply, Reducing Salaries, Inadequate Training and Opportunities | open full screen
Kay Dunkley - BPharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, Grad Dip Health Admin, MPS, MSHPA: Social and electronic media and health professionals | open full screen
Staff Writer: Explainer – how is it that people can recover from serious brain injury? | open full screen
Staff Writer: A Call for a Moratorium on New Pharmacy Schools in Australia and Review of Accreditation Standards | open full screen
Information Technology
Staff Writer: Australia’s first fully digital hospital recognised by Private Hospitals Association of Queensland | open full screen
Dr David More: Weekly Health IT Links to 27 June 2011Preventive Medicine
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