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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 26 November 2005

Table of Contents

Foreword

Policy Papers

Engaging Communities to Reduce Health Inequalities: Why Partnership?

      Anna Matheson, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Kevin Dew

Policy Development Papers

Understanding Dangerous Consumptions: Moving Forward with a National Strategy for Research on Tobacco, Alcohol, other Drugs and Gambling

      Peter Adams, Ian Hodges

Accounting for Something: Voluntary Organisations, Accountability and the Implications for Government Funders

      Jo Cribb

Bridging the Gap Between Policy, Research and Practice: Experiences from a Community Economic Development Action Research Project in New Zealand

      Meenakshi Sankar

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

      Tracy Anderson

Research Papers

Lavender Parents

      Mark Henrickson

The Needs of Pacific Women when they are Victims of Family Violence

      ’Ana Hau’alofa’ia Koloto
      Sashi Sharma

The Social Sanctioning of Partner Abuse: Perpetuating the Message that Partner Abuse is Acceptable in New Zealand

      Janice R. Giles
      Helen M. Curreen
      Carole E. Adamson

Off to a Better Start: What we Know About Early Intervention Services

      Joan Sykora

The Kindness of Strangers: Family-Based Early Intervention and Improved Outcomes for Children

     Tina E Robilliard

Family Membership in Post-Reunion Adoption Narratives

     Julee Browning
     Grant Duncan

Barriers to Employment Identified by Blind and Vision-Impaired Persons in New Zealand

      Steven J. La Grow
      Paula Daye

Associations Between Universities and the Tobacco Industry: What Institutional Policies Limit these Associations?

      George Thomson
      Louise Signal

Reviews

Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History

      Edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant
      Otago University Press
      Jane Kelsey

New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations

      Edited by J.H. Liu, T. McCreanor, T. Mcintosh and T. Teaiwa
      Victoria University Press, 2005
      Paul Spoonley

2005 PANZ Conference;People and Place: Communites, Regions, Diversity and Change

      Chungui Qiao