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Abstract: This study explored the coping processes of couples experiencing infertility. Participants included 420 couples referred for advanced reproductive treatments. Couples were divided into groups based on the frequency of their use of eight coping strategies. Findings suggest that coping processes, which are beneficial to individuals, may be problematic for one's partner. Couples where men used high amounts of distancing, while their partner used low amounts of distancing, reported higher levels of distress when compared to couples in the other groups. Conversely, couples with women who used high amounts of self‐controlling coping, when paired with men who used low amounts of self‐controlling coping, reported higher levels of distress. Implications of study findings are discussed, and ideas for future research are proposed.

This is about families with young children aged up to 5 years in Dandenong andits surrounds. We were interested in what kind of education and care servicesfamilies want for their children, how they like the services they are getting, orwhy they are not using these services. We wanted to find out how to makeservices work in the best way possible.Therefore we did a research project in 6 neighbourhoods around Australia,including Dandenong and its neighbouring suburbs. We talked to familiesabout their early education and care services: the services that they use or not,whether they like their situation, where they find information, whether theyget any payments from government, what good care and education means tothem and what would help them with getting the care or education they wantfor their children.This booklet details what we found out in Dandenong and two surroundingsuburbs, Noble Park and Doveton. In this booklet, unless we say otherwise,when we write about Dandenong we are actually referring to Noble Park andDoveton as well as Dandenong.

This report is about families in Fitzroy (Victoria) with young children aged up to5 years. We were interested in what kind of education and care services thesefamilies want for their children, how they like the services they are getting, orwhy they are not using these services. We wanted to find out how to makeservices work in the best way possible.Therefore we conducted a research project in six neighbourhoods aroundAustralia, including Fitzroy. We talked to families about their early education andcare services: the services that they use or not, whether they like their situation,where they find information, whether they get any payments from government,what good care and education means to them and what would help them withgetting the care or education they want.This booklet says what we found out in Fitzroy.

This review presents seven national asthma programmes to support the European Asthma Research and Innovation Partnership in developing strategies to reduce asthma mortality and morbidity across Europe. From published data it appears that in order to influence asthma care, national/regional asthma programmes are more effective than conventional treatment guidelines. An asthma programme should start with the universal commitments of stakeholders at all levels and the programme has to be endorsed by political and governmental bodies. When the national problems have been identified, the goals of the programme have to be clearly defined with measures to evaluate progress. An action plan has to be developed, including defined re-allocation of patients and existing resources, if necessary, between primary care and specialised healthcare units or hospital centres. Patients should be involved in guided self-management education and structured follow-up in relation to disease severity. The three evaluated programmes show that, thanks to rigorous efforts, it is possible to improve patients quality of life and reduce hospitalisation, asthma mortality, sick leave and disability pensions. The direct and indirect costs, both for the individual patient and for society, can be significantly reduced. The results can form the basis for development of further programme activities in Europe.