Cigarette smoking, menstrual symptoms and miscarriage among young women.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the magnitude, 10-year temporal trends and treatment cost of intentional injury hospitalisations of children aged ≤16 years in Australia. METHOD:A retrospective examination of linked hospitalisation and mortality data for children aged ≤16 years during 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2012 with self-harm or...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Mitchell RJ,Seah R,Ting HP,Curtis K,Foster K

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the age-specific population prevalence and predictors of uptake of home modifications and exercise to prevent falls in the NSW older population. METHODS:A total of 5,681 respondents were asked questions on fall prevention activities as part of the 2009 NSW Falls Prevention Survey. RESULTS were wei...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Harvey LA,Mitchell RJ,Lord SR,Close JC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the accuracy of the hospital discharge coding of heart failure (HF) in the Western Australian (WA) Hospital Morbidity Data (HMD). METHODS:A retrospective medical chart review of a sample of 1,006 patients with a principal diagnosis code indicating HF in the WA HMD was undertaken. Validation was ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Teng TH,Finn J,Hung J,Geelhoed E,Hobbs M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether workers at Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre (LHSTC) have different levels of mortality from the New South Wales (NSW) and Australian populations. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was undertaken at LHSTC. Data on 7,076 workers employed between 1957-98 were abstracted from per...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Habib RR,Abdallah SM,Law M,Kaldor J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the cost-effectiveness of adding school based Mantoux screening programs to the New South Wales current TB prevention strategy. METHOD:A decision analysis model compared the costs and consequences of screening strategies against the current no-screen strategy. Costs associated with screening and wi...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Lowin A,Slater J,Hall J,Alperstein G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine how OTDs and staff in rural and remote Indigenous health contexts communicate and negotiate identity and relationships, and consider how this may influence OTDs' transition, integration and retention. METHOD:Ten case studies were conducted in rural and remote settings across Australia, each of an ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Durey A,Hill P,Arkles R,Gilles M,Peterson K,Wearne S,Canuto C,Pulver LJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate written policies, equipment, strategies and barriers to children's activity in early childhood education settings, including participation in health promotion programs and reported time children spend in active play and using screens while in care. METHODS:Cross-sectional online survey of lice...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Gerritsen S,Morton SM,Wall CR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore caregiver perspectives of their children's journey through the specialist paediatric service, the Aboriginal Ambulatory Care Coordination Program (AACC), and non-AACC services at the Perth Children's Hospital. METHODS:Eighteen semi-structured interviews with families of Aboriginal children were co...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Strobel N,Moylan C,Durey A,Edmond K,McAuley K,McAullay D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Measure the self-reported prevalence of HIV, history of HIV testing and associated risk factors among injecting drug users (IDUs) attending the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC). METHODS:Cross-sectional survey of IDUs attending the Sydney MSIC (n=9,778). RESULTS:The majority of IDUs had be...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Salmon AM,van Beek I,Amin J,Grulich A,Maher L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma are important chronic diseases posing serious public health issues in Australia with associated medical, economic, and societal burdens. Pollen are significant sources of clinically relevant outdoor aeroallergens, recognised as both a major trigger for, and cause of, alle...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Beggs PJ,Katelaris CH,Medek D,Johnston FH,Burton PK,Campbell B,Jaggard AK,Vicendese D,Bowman DM,Godwin I,Huete AR,Erbas B,Green BJ,Newnham RM,Newbigin E,Haberle SG,Davies JM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify and describe caregiver perspectives on factors important for the health and wellbeing of urban Aboriginal children. METHODS:Caregivers of Aboriginal children participating in the Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH) were asked to describe the single most importa...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Miller HM,Young C,Nixon J,Talbot-McDonnell M,Cutmore M,Tong A,Craig JC,Woolfenden S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore antecedents of health service engagement and experience among urban Aboriginal people with comorbid physical and mental health conditions. METHODS:Focus groups and interviews were conducted with Aboriginal people who had comorbid health conditions and were accessing Aboriginal and/or mainstream se...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Jobling K,Lau P,Kerr D,Higgins RO,Worcester MU,Angus L,Jackson AC,Murphy BM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antipsychotics are commonly used in the elderly despite limited efficacy and safety data from randomised controlled trials. Observational comparative safety studies of antipsychotics vary, which may be due to confounding. OBJECTIVE:To compare the characteristics of typical and atypical antipsychotic initiat...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Pratt N,Roughead E,Salter A,Ryan P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although Torres Strait Islanders (TSIs) are often combined with Aborigines, they are a distinct group and would prefer to be considered separately. The Queensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC) has been the only population-based, perinatal collection in Australia that has distinguished between Aboriginal a...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Coory M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate changing patterns in the provision of maternity care in Victoria based on data collected in three statewide surveys conducted in 1989, 1994 and 2000. METHODS:Postal surveys were mailed to all women who gave birth in Victoria in one week in 1989, and in two weeks in 1993 and 1999, excluding tho...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Brown S,Darcy MA,Bruinsma F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide Australian health-related quality of life (HRQoL) population norms, based on utility scores from the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) measure, a participant-reported outcomes (PRO) instrument. METHODS:The data were from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. AQoL scores were ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Hawthorne G,Korn S,Richardson J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine reported outcomes of health services delivered by telehealth to Indigenous Australians. METHODS:Systematic review of the literature. Searches were conducted to identify articles that reported a telehealth service used to provide clinical services to Indigenous Australians. Articles were screened f...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Caffery LJ,Bradford NK,Wickramasinghe SI,Hayman N,Smith AC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess mothers' intentions to introduce their adolescent to alcohol and to examine whether their own alcohol use influences their intentions. METHODS:Mothers (N = 161) of children aged 12.5 years (SD = 0.8) completed measures of their alcohol use and their intentions and attitudes towards their children b...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Roberts R,Beckwith M,Watts D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the trends of all-cause natural mortality for people aged 15 years and over in a remote Australian Aboriginal community between 1996 and 2010. METHODS:The annual population in the community by gender and age group was obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). All known deaths and al...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Wang Z,Hoy WE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Guidelines for vaccination of health care workers (HCWs) have been available in Victoria since 1998. We estimated knowledge and attitudes towards vaccination among HCWs as well as self-reported vaccination status in a tertiary adult hospital in Melbourne, Australia. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was cond...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Murray SB,Skull SA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Protecting the skin from ultraviolet (UV) radiation is critical during adolescence to reduce the risk of developing skin cancer later in life, but adolescents tend to be less likely to engage in sun-protective behaviours than adults. The present study examined changes and trends (2001/02-2011/12) in sun-prote...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Koch S,Pettigrew S,Hollier LP,Slevin T,Strickland M,Minto C,Jalleh G,Lin C

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine trends in health status over a 10-year interval in a high-risk remote Australian Aboriginal community. METHODS:Two health surveys were performed, one between 1992 and 1997 and the other between 2004 and 2006, on people aged five years or older. Outcomes were compared across age-matched and sex-m...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Wang Z,Scott J,Wang Z,Hoy WE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the effectiveness and costs of follow-up phone calls in improving response rates to a community survey. METHODS:Non-responders to a postal survey were randomly allocated to receive a phone call or no phone call. The resources used for the development and implementation of the survey were ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Breen CL,Shakeshaft AP,Doran CM,Sanson-Fisher RW,Mattick RP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To elicit community preferences for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening by faecal occult blood test (FOBT) using discrete choice modeling (DCM). To provide policymakers with information that would assist them in designing the future national screening program. METHODS:301 participants in central Sydney, aged ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Salkeld G,Solomon M,Short L,Ryan M,Ward JE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on terminations of pregnancy done in New South Wales (NSW) for NSW residents, using routinely collected data from the Health Insurance Commission (HIC) and the NSW Inpatient Statistics Collection (ISC). The HIC and ISC recorded 29,348 terminations for NSW residents in 1990, representing a terminat...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Adelson PL,Frommer M,Weisberg E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine access and equity to induced abortion services in Australia, including factors associated with presenting beyond nine weeks gestation. METHODS:Cross-sectional survey of 2,326 women aged 16+ years attending for an abortion at 14 Dr Marie clinics. Associations with later presentation assessed using...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Shankar M,Black KI,Goldstone P,Hussainy S,Mazza D,Petersen K,Lucke J,Taft A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated mothers' perceptions of vaccine-preventable diseases and associated vaccines in terms of perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits and barriers. A purposive sampling strategy was used to choose mothers whose only or youngest child was completely, incompletely (behind the recommended immunisa...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Bond L,Nolan T,Pattison P,Carlin J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the epidemiological differences between culture-positive and culture-negative (but ipaH PCR-positive) cases of shigellosis in Sydney Local Health District (SLHD), NSW, to inform whether changes to the national case definition for shigellosis are required. METHODS:An audit of all cases of shigellosi...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Quinn E,Najjar Z,Huhtinen E,Jegasothy E,Gupta L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the contribution of trends in three risk factors--systolic blood pressure (SBP), total blood cholesterol (TBC) and cigarette smoking--to the decline in premature coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in New Zealand from 1980-2004. METHOD:Risk factor prevalence data by 10-year age group (35-64 ye...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Tobias M,Taylor R,Yeh LC,Huang K,Mann S,Sharpe N

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To conduct a critical and systematic analysis of descriptive studies regarding the health, development and wellbeing status of Indigenous children in Australia and to map them according to 1) Reported Indigenous involvement in the research process; 2) Domains of the life-course model of health; and 3) Geogra...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Priest N,Mackean T,Waters E,Davis E,Riggs E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00