Showing papers in "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health in 1977"

TL;DR: Results suggest symptom occurrence was associated with duration of contact with water containing cyanobacteria, and with cyanobacterial cell density, and the current safety threshold for exposure of 20 000 cells per mL may be too high.

TL;DR: Within the exercise group, improvements in memory span were associated with concomitant improvements in both reaction time and muscle strength, which suggests that the program may have normalised mood states in subjects who had high initial depression, anxiety and stress levels, rather than inducing improvements in all subjects.

TL;DR: The predictors of discrepancy suggest that more complex cases are more prone to coding discrepancy, and in areas where the database is less reliable, use of a supplementary data source, such as linkage studies, would improve reliability.

TL;DR: Characteristics that predispose older residents of Adelaide to falling are identified and medical histories suggest some possible opportunities for reducing the risk of falls in the elderly by managing the symptoms and risk factors of underlying conditions such as stroke and loss of vision.

TL;DR: Social surveys have established dose–response relationships between aircraft noise and annoyance, with a number of psychological symptoms being positively related to annoyance, and evidence that exposure to aircraft noise is associated with higher psychiatric hospital admission rates is mixed.

TL;DR: Some of the important features of the philosophical perspective of Aboriginal Australians are outlined and ways in which the recognition of these views can inform changes in treatment settings and methods that can contribute to improvements in the health care outcomes of Aboriginal people are suggested.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need to create valid research tools to support the development and implementation of the health–promoting school model, which offers a comprehensive, systematic approach to health promotion in the school setting.

TL;DR: Logistic regression analysis showed that the strongest predictor of walking activity was school type, and after adjusting for this, lesser car ownership, non–English–speaking background and lower occupational category were associated with walking to school, while a different set of predictors–age, sex and maternal education–was associated with the unaccompanied crossing of streets.

TL;DR: Improved infrastructure, education and employment, and reinvigoration of preventive and primary health care programs, assumption of responsibility for health by the community and by individuals themselves, and better management of existing morbidities are essential to rectifying this shameful situation.

TL;DR: Significant inverse associations between acculturation and preferences for patient (versus family) involvement in medical decision making were found and Mechanisms for how Acculturation affects health need to be explored.

TL;DR: There is a need to increase awareness of this disease and its prevention and an extension program in rural communities and provision of vaccine to all abattoir workers would appear to be sensible public health approaches.

TL;DR: An overview of trends in workplace health promotion shows that current thinking has changed from a narrowly based risk–factors approach aimed at individual behaviour changes, to an integrative approach aimed for creating health–promoting workplaces.

TL;DR: It is estimated that their knowledge of the association between folate and spina bifida increased from 8.2 per cent before the project to 67.5 per cent 2.5 years later, and doctors were a major source of information for women.

TL;DR: A sociodemographic profile of Australian caregivers is presented, showing the heterogeneity of both caregivers and care recipients and the diversity of caregiving roles and circumstances.

TL;DR: For Aboriginal births in the Darwin Health Region, maternal malnutrition and smoking are key elements in the prevention of low birthweight and intrauterine growth retardation.

TL;DR: The highest–priority communities were targeted in a program of major works and minor works, which have been commenced and the remote–area environmental health workers' program is being expanded.

TL;DR: Compared response distributions in health surveys for two inteniew modes: face‐to‐face household interviews and telephone interviews, there was significantly lower reporting of smoking and lower unsafe alcohol consumption in the telephone sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present guidelines to assist non-indigenous health and public policy professionals whose information gathering in these communities includes the use of unstructured interviewing or survey questionnaires.

TL;DR: It was found that risk of food insufficiency was most highly associated with age and income, unemployment and snared accommodation and one–adult households, and being single versus separated, widowed or divorced.

TL;DR: The high incidence and prevalence of hepatitis C infection among clients of a methadone program in Queensland emphasises the need for effective early intervention strategies to prevent the transmission of hepatitisC among injecting drug users.

TL;DR: Investigation of additional factors of health status, social connections and satisfaction with local area facilities by analysing data from a 1987 community health survey of 1765 residents of Adelaide finds factors associated with low activity were age group, education, general health, reduced mobility, number of social connections, and degree of satisfaction with recreation facilities.

TL;DR: The three main factors preventing Aboriginal health workers from attaining a key role within the health service are the standard of training they receive, their low literacy and numeracy levels, and their lack of participation in decision making within thehealth service.

TL;DR: The most commonly used drugs were tobacco, alcohol and cannabis among young Aboriginal people aged 8 to 17 in the town of Albany, Western Australia as discussed by the authors, and use of drugs increased with age: 48 per cent of those aged 15 to 17 were frequent polydrug users.

TL;DR: Although this study found no clear indications of excess mortality in the Rotorua area likely to have been associated with geothermal emissions, there were limitations in the data that could have prevented the recognition of causal associations, which suggested that SMRs based on ethnicity are likely to be spuriously high.

TL;DR: The author concludes that, at least at the macro level of priority setting, the community ought to have a say in what their health services are about and decision makers ought to be cognisant of the expectation that they act as the community’s agents.

TL;DR: Researchers using the telephone directory and electoral roll to select subjects for study should be aware of the potential selection bias these sampling frames incur and need to take care when generalising their findings to the wider community.

TL;DR: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a multifaceted dissemination strategy compared with a simple mail–out strategy in promoting the adoption of comprehensive SunSmart skin protection policies and practices in primary and secondary schools in New South Wales.

TL;DR: The contributions to this special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health describe progress, show gaps and make many important conceptual and strategic contributions, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings to the strategic priorities.

TL;DR: It is recommended that the NSW and Victorian governments accept some responsibility for the behaviour of young people attending Schoolies Week, and a coordinated intervention strategy is required because there are significant prior indicators of youngPeople's risk practices in Surfers Paradise during Schoolie Week.