Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to infectious agents.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This research explores food insecurity among asylum seekers who are members of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) in Melbourne, Australia. METHODS:Structured person-assisted questionnaires were conducted with 56 asylum seekers. The questionnaires examined issues around access to food, cultural appropr...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： McKay FH,Dunn M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The World Health Organization calls upon local government worldwide to play a greater role in improving public health by improving the social determinants of health. This research aimed to determine how local governments in Victoria, Australia, conceptualised their organisational efficacy to address public he...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

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

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate alcohol consumption, substance use and risky and harmful behaviour among young people attending 'schoolies' week in Victoria. METHODS:Breathalyser tests and brief surveys (n=558) measuring alcohol, energy drink and illicit drug use, and experience of aggressive incidents, alcohol-related injur...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Lubman DI,Droste N,Pennay A,Hyder S,Miller P

更新日期：2014-12-01 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:We describe the methods used to trace and recruit a cohort (including injecting drug users) 25 years after admission to hospital in Melbourne with hepatitis. METHODS:Information recorded in the original medical record was used for tracing purposes. Subjects were located using the electoral roll, CD-ROM telep...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Rodger A,Lanigan A,Hocking J,Crofts N

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Life and Living in Advanced Age: A Cohort Study in New Zealand (LiLACS NZ) aims to determine the predictors of successful advanced ageing and understand the trajectories of wellbeing in advanced age. This paper reports recruitment strategies used to enrol 600 Māori aged 80-90 years and 600 non-Māori aged 85 ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Dyall L,Kepa M,Hayman K,Teh R,Moyes S,Broad JB,Kerse N

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：:The population of Halls Creek, a small town in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia, is predominantly Aboriginal. After many years of high alcohol consumption, a number of measures were taken in an effort to redress its negative influence on the community. Key among these was a restriction on the trading h...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Douglas M

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Kava is marketed as a herbal anxiolytic in several countries and is consumed recreationally in high doses in many indigenous Pacific and Australian Aboriginal communities. We reviewed the published literature examining the association (if any) between kava use and motor vehicle crashes (MVCs), MVC-related inj...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Wainiqolo I,Kool B,Nosa V,Ameratunga S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In response to inquiries regarding the processes of developing a Tobacco Control Plan (TCP) for the Central Sydney Area Health Service (which in 1997 allocated dedicated funding of $ 800,000 over 2 1/2 years to implement the plan), this article describes the strengths and weaknesses of the TCP and outlines th...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Rissel C,McMaugh K,O'Connor D,Balafas A,Ward J

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：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 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：:It has been recognised that the Australian National HIV Database may contain multiple reports for some individuals, mainly because of incomplete or inaccurate recording of name codes. The number of distinct individuals diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was estimated from the dates of birth of cases of ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Law MG,McDonald AM,Kaldor JM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Testing is the first step in treatment and care for blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). As new treatments for viral hepatitis emerge, it is important to document effective models for BBV/STI testing. A nurse-led intervention was implemented across three prisons in Victoria ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Winter RJ,White B,Kinner SA,Stoové M,Guy R,Hellard ME

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate time trends in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence disparities, and ethnic differences in risk factors, comorbidity and treatment pathways among HCC patients. METHODS:Cohorts of the NZ population (1981-2004) were created and probabilistically linked to cancer registry records to investiga...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Chamberlain J,Sarfati D,Cunningham R,Koea J,Gurney J,Blakely T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1993, New Zealand implemented radical health sector reform, separating purchaser from provider and creating a competitive market. This paper reports on a 1994 survey of senior managers' perceptions of how well public health services were adapting to this more commercial environment. An initial questionnaire to chie...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Malcolm L,Barnett P,Nuthall J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the evidence for a national policy response to depression among gay, lesbian and other homosexually active people in Australia. METHODS:A literature review using database searches on depression among non-heterosexual people then a web-based search of national policy investigating how mental health...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Carman M,Corboz J,Dowsett GW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a trial of the provision of community-service information to family carers, general practitioners and pharmacists from the Western region of Melbourne were supplied with tear-off pads listing suburb-specific community services, and were encouraged to discuss service needs with carers of people with disabilities and...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Murphy B,Nankervis J,Schofield H,Herrman H,Bloch S,Singh B

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:To determine age group- and cause-of-death-specific contributions to area socioeconomic status (SES), sex and remoteness life expectancy inequalities. METHODS:Mortality and estimated residential population data from New South Wales, Australia, over 2010-2012 was used to calculate life expectancy. Inequaliti...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Stephens AS,Blyth F,Gupta L,Broome RA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe and critique methodological aspects of school-based interventions that involve a broader community initiative. METHODS:An electronic search of 11 databases and manual search of references for intervention studies published in peer-reviewed journals from January 2000 to August 2004. To be included...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Wood E,Shakeshaft A,Gilmour S,Sanson-Fisher R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effectiveness of the National Death Index (NDI) in identifying deaths among different populations has been studied before. Prisoners represent a segment of the population that might be expected to be difficult to link. The objective of this research was to evaluate the accuracy of the Australian NDI to as...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Kariminia A,Butler T,Corben S,Kaldor J,Levy M,Law M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with diabetes do not regularly utilise eye services for the early prevention of vision loss due to diabetic eye disease. A community-based screening program has been initiated in Victoria to address this issue. To encourage people to take preventive eye health care measures, the most effective health ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Livingston PM,McCarty CA,Wood CA,Harper AC,Keeffe JE,Taylor HR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The efficiency of regulation of public health risks has been questioned on the grounds that the costs of regulation may outweigh the benefits. There are strong arguments that risk management is best left to the market place, where individual consumers can make the trade-off between risk and the forgone benefi...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Harris A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Timor-Leste is one of the world's newest nations and became a democracy in 2002. Ranked 150 out of 177 in the 2007 UNDP Human Development Index, the country has the worst health indicators in the Asia-Pacific region. The objective of this study was to collect and analyse data on subjectively assessed general ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Earnest J,Finger RP

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the interaction of computed tomography (CT) use, dose and radiation risk of Australian Medicare-funded CT scanning and the impact on cancer incidence and mortality. METHODS:This retrospective cohort study used records of Medicare subsidised CT scans in Australia (2006/07 to 2011/12) and Australia...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Gibson DA,Moorin RE,Semmens J,Holman DJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00