Impact of a short, culturally relevant training course on cancer knowledge and confidence in Western Australia's Aboriginal Health Professionals.

abstract：:This paper argues for greater dialogue on public health ethics. There has been little discussion in Australia about the significant ethical dilemmas in this field, and there is no agreed framework for analysing and responding to these challenges. We highlight concerns about the suitability of biomedical principles-bas...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Fry CL,Peerson A,Scully AM

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the incidence, prevalence and mortality of stroke in New Zealand (NZ) in 2001, projected to 2011. METHODS:Multistate lifetable models were constructed using smoothed rates of first-ever stroke incidence and relative risks of mortality estimated from the most recent Auckland Regional Community Str...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Tobias M,Cheung J,Carter K,Anderson C,Feigin VL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine: 1) the mean, median and range of fees for initial and subsequent private outpatient consultations with a general paediatrician in Australia; 2) any variation in fees and bulk billing rates between states/territories; and 3) volume of outpatient general paediatric specialist consultations relativ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Freed GL,Allen AR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the methods and process of the Australian Study of Health and Relationships. METHODS:A computer-assisted telephone interview was developed and applied to a stratified sample of the Australian population. After initially weighting to reflect the study design, the sample was further weighted to ref...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Smith AM,Rissel CE,Richters J,Grulich AE,de Visser RO

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine variation in the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in health and age-related variations in inequalities, according to the socioeconomic status (SES) measure used. METHODS:Cross-sectional study involving 205,709 participants in the 45 and Up Study. We used the Relative Index of Inequality (RI...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Mather T,Banks E,Joshy G,Bauman A,Phongsavan P,Korda RJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of strategies designed to prevent falls among older people. METHODS:A decision analytic Markov model of interventions designed to prevent falls was developed. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) using quality adjusted life year (QALYs) as the measure, were calcula...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Church J,Goodall S,Norman R,Haas M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe trends in teenage pregnancy rates in South Australia and Australia in 1970-2000, and the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and outcomes of teenage women who gave birth in South Australia in 1995-99. METHODS:A descriptive study using population-based legislated South Australian perin...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： van der Klis KA,Westenberg L,Chan A,Dekker G,Keane RJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 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:The purpose of this study was to assess emerging trends in five characteristics: age, first ever pregnancy, contraception at time of conception, contraception choices post-operatively and referral source of women presenting for a termination of pregnancy (1996-2006) from a southern service in Adelaide, South...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Abigail W,Power C,Belan I

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An exploratory study to determine the proportion of people aged 50-76 years who have Internet access, the location of this access, predictive characteristics of such access, and preparedness to receive unsolicited health information through this medium. METHODS:A random sample of 1,000 South Australians was ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Wilson C,Flight I,Hart E,Turnbull D,Cole S,Young G

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 26 months, 223 general practitioners recorded consultations involving the management of skin naevi and some demographic details of the patients. We used data from the Health Insurance Commission and the Australian Bureau of Statistics to estimate population consultation rates. Of 749,171 consultations, 9,729 invo...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Del Mar CB,Balanda KP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To illustrate how regional variation in data quality could explain some or all of the apparent regional differences in the health status of Indigenous Australians. METHODS:A series of simple hypothetical numerical examples is provided, with varying assumptions regarding the accuracy of identification of Indi...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Cunningham J

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Does the provision of a nurse-based intervention lead to smoking cessation in hospital patients? METHODS:At tertiary teaching hospital in Newcastle, Australia, 4,779 eligible (aged 18-80, admitted for at least 24 hours, and able to provide informed consent) and consenting (73.4%) in-patients were recruited i...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Nagle AL,Hensley MJ,Schofield MJ,Koschel AJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current State of the Environment (SoE) reporting focuses primarily on indicators directly related to the physical environment such as climate, and air, water and soil quality. As the environment has both direct and indirect effects on human health, an opportunity exists to include environment-related human d...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Sladden T,Beard J,Simpson J,Luckie K

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Victorian local governments are required to develop Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans that incorporate state-level health planning priorities and address the social determinants of health. This paper describes a novel method for evaluating councils' performance against these requirements. METHODS:D...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Browne GR,Davern MT,Giles-Corti B

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine school participation in sponsorship, incentive and fundraising initiatives and to describe feedback about potential health implications and possible solutions from key stakeholders in the health and education sectors. METHODS:All secondary/area schools and 15% of primary/intermediate schools were ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Richards R,Darling H,Reeder AI

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review Australian legislation about privacy, focusing on provisions within the regulations to conduct health research using identified data and lobby for regulatory change in the ACT. METHOD:A systematic review of Commonwealth and jurisdiction health privacy regulation. RESULTS:Australia has a number of ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Lovett R,Fisher J,Al-Yaman F,Dance P,Vally H

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe and compare vaccination coverage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as Indigenous) adults in 2004-05 and 2012-13, including the impact of national vaccination funding initiatives. METHODS:National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health cross-sectional surveys ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Webster F,Gidding H,Matthews V,Taylor R,Menzies R

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes the changes in composition of mortality by major attributed cause during the Australian mortality decline this century. The principal categories employed were: infectious diseases, nonrheumatic cardiovascular disease, external causes, cancer, 'other' causes and ill-defined conditions. The data we...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Taylor R,Lewis M,Powles J

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide an overview of qualitative methodologies for health researchers in order to inform better research practices. APPROACH:Different possible goals in health research are outlined: quantifying relationships between variables, identifying associations, exploring experience, understanding process, disti...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Dew K

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the findings from the second part of a two-stage study that used both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the communication context of school-based HIV-AIDS education in state secondary schools in metropolitan and rural areas of New South Wales. The quantitative data are here descr...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Lupton D,Tulloch J

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:A large-scale survey was conducted to obtain a comprehensive picture of the range of women involved in prostitution in Victoria and to document their concerns about health in relation to sex work. There was considerable diversity in the ages, education levels, family situations and attitudes to sex work among women wo...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Pyett PM,Haste BR,Snow JD

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is widespread inappropriate use of pharmaceuticals. Problems are with the prescribing and dispensing as well as with the taking of medicines. Levels of potentially inappropriate prescribing were estimated in the population of Australian veterans and war widows. This group tends to have multiple medical condition...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Parkes AJ,Coper LC

更新日期：1997-08-01 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 describe the leading mechanisms of hospitalised unintentional injury in Australian Aboriginal children and identify the injury mechanisms with the largest inequalities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. METHODS:We used linked hospital and mortality data to construct a whole of population birt...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Möller H,Falster K,Ivers R,Falster MO,Clapham K,Jorm L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination coverage since the selective hepatitis B vaccination of neonates of high-risk group program introduced in 1987, was measured in 658 children from 301 Vietnamese families living in the south-western Sydney. The vaccination rate of children born after the introduction of the program was twice that of childre...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Lam LP,McLaws ML

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of influenza immunisation of residents within South Australian aged care homes, reasons why vaccination is not given, the policy associated with vaccination administration and the source of the vaccination. METHOD:A clustered, multistage, area sample was used to assess the provisi...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Gill T,Taylor AW,Kempe A,Pickering S,Watson M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the reservoir and risk factors of HCV infection in a hospital population. METHODS:The presence of anti-HCV in 2,119 endoscopy patients was related to putative risk factors for exposure using the SAS statistical package. RESULTS:Most of the 4.7% of anti-HCV positive patients had multiple risk fa...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Vickery K,Tawk HM,Bisset L,Selby W,Cossart YE

更新日期：2009-10-01 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