General paediatrics outpatient consultation fees, bulk billing rates and service use patterns in Australia.

abstract：:Compliance of bar staff with the Western Australian liquor law prohibiting service to drunk patrons was assessed through the deployment of actors trained to behave in a drunken manner. The serving practices of 23 licensed premises (19 hotels and four nightclubs) were examined. During 120 visits to hotel and nightclub ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Rydon P,Stockwell T,Lang E,Beel A

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：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：:In Australia, there is a clear relationship (r=-0.56) between the ratio of health expenditure to burden and the ratio of mortality to disability across illness groups. Those illnesses with high mortality relative to disability (e.g. cancer and cardiovascular) are associated with lower health expenditure, relative to t...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Hickie IB,Davenport TA,Luscombe GM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 came into force to promote the safe and responsible sale, supply, and consumption of alcohol in New Zealand. The Act was intended to minimise harm caused by excessive consumption of alcohol and reduce exposure to alcohol promotion. This study assessed supermarket adhere...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： McBride-Henry K,Lui SM,Woods L,Officer TN

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the prevalence of key outcomes among Māori and non-Māori 12 months post-injury, and to estimate the risk of these outcomes for Māori compared to non-Māori. METHODS:The Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study recruited 2,856 New Zealand residents from five regions of New Zealand. This paper examines o...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Maclennan B,Wyeth E,Davie G,Wilson S,Derrett S

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:The eye health of rural Aboriginal Australians is known to be poor. Over the past 20 years, Aboriginal communities in remote parts of Australia have had increasing access to eye health services through the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program (NTEHP). Using published and unpublished data, we examined trends in the...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Stocks NP,Hiller JE,Newland H,McGilchrist CA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the associations between generational status, acculturation and substance use among immigrant and non-immigrant secondary school students in New Zealand. METHODS:A nationally representative sample of secondary school students in New Zealand was selected using a two-stage cluster sample design....

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Di Cosmo C,Milfont TL,Robinson E,Denny SJ,Ward C,Crengle S,Ameratunga SN

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the characteristics of Australian adults' experience of commercial sex. METHOD:Telephone interviews were completed by a representative sample of 10,173 men and 9,134 women aged 16-59 years (response rate 73.1%; 69.4% men, 77.6% women). Respondents were asked about their experiences both as client...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

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

更新日期：2003-01-01 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 measure the reported impact of phased-in smoke-free bar laws on bar patronage and smoking behaviour, particularly among young adults. METHODS:Cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of 2,004 South Australian adults, conducted four months into Phase I of the new laws. A comparable survey was con...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Miller CL,Hickling JA

更新日期：2006-08-01 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:The burden of notifiable diseases in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victorians cannot be accurately estimated due to under-reporting of Indigenous status. We used data linkage to improve completeness of Indigenous status in people notified with viral hepatitis and gonococcal infection. METHODS:Notific...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Rowe SL,Cowie BC

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the feasibility and acceptability of an electrocardiogram (ECG) attached to a mobile phone (iECG) screening device for atrial fibrillation (AF) in Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Services (ACCHS) and other community settings. METHODS:Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ACCHS staff i...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Macniven R,Gwynn J,Fujimoto H,Hamilton S,Thompson SC,Taylor K,Lawrence M,Finlayson H,Bolton G,Dulvari N,Wright DC,Rambaldini B,Freedman B,Gwynne K

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants born to HBsAg- (hepatitis B surface antigen) carrier mothers are highly likely to become chronic hepatitis B (HB) carriers themselves unless their status is recognised at birth and they are immunised with three doses of HB vaccine, the first within 48 hours of birth, concurrent with hepatitis B immune globulin...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Oman KM,Carnie J,Ruff T

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore factors associated with high psychological distress among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians and their contribution to the elevated distress prevalence among Aboriginal people. METHODS:Questionnaire data from 1,631 Aboriginal and 233,405 non-Aboriginal 45 and Up Study (NSW, Australia) parti...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： McNamara BJ,Banks E,Gubhaju L,Joshy G,Williamson A,Raphael B,Eades S

更新日期：2018-04-01 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 study examined the prevalence and predictors of self screening for melanoma in a large sample of young New Zealanders. A self-report questionnaire was administered to a sample of 909, 21-year-olds to investigate if young adults check their skin for changes in lesions which could be melanoma, and to identify the f...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Douglass HM,McGee R,Williams S

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study revisits disparities in health and wellbeing by sexual identity in Australia, identifying which domains demand priority policy intervention, documenting differences between gay/lesbian vs. bisexual populations, and examining change over time in the relative health and wellbeing of sexual minorities...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Perales F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes initial partnership development in PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers), a community-randomised trial to improve maternal health in the first year after birth conducted in Victoria in the period 1998--2003. First, we discuss the principles underpinning community recrui...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Small R,Brown S,Dawson W,Watson L,Lumley J

更新日期：2004-10-01 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

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 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 effect of the application, and removal, in the Northern Territory of a levy on the sale of cask wine--a beverage shown to contribute disproportionately to alcohol-related harm. METHOD:Using data on licensee purchases of alcoholic beverages and ABS population data, estimates were made of per ca...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Gray D,Chikritzhs T,Stockwell T

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether capture-recapture analysis provides more reliable estimates of the cumulative incidence and prevalence of leg ulcers in Auckland, New Zealand. METHODS:A population-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in the Central and North Auckland health districts of New Zealand in 1998. Cases ...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Walker NK,Vandal AC,Holden JK,Rodgers A,Birchall N,Norton R,Triggs CM,MacMahon S

更新日期：2002-10-01 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:Explore demographic characteristics, patterns of drug use and psychological distress among regular injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia, as a function of recent criminal activity. METHODS:Structured, face-to-face interviews with 909 regular IDUs recruited from every capital city in Australia, between Jun...

journal_title：Australian and New Zealand journal of public health

authors： Kinner SA,George J,Campbell G,Degenhardt L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00