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  1. This study determines the trend in mental health-related mortality (defined here as the aggregation of suicide and deaths coded as "mental/behavioural disorders"), and its relative numerical importance, and to...

    Authors: Darrel P Doessel, Ruth FG Williams and Harvey Whiteford
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2010 7:3
  2. Public health educational pathways in Australia have traditionally been the province of Universities, with the Master of Public Health (MPH) recognised as the flagship professional entry program. Public health...

    Authors: Catherine M Bennett, Kathleen Lilley, Heather Yeatman, Elizabeth Parker, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Elizabeth G Hanna and Priscilla Robinson
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2010 7:2
  3. No recent Australian studies or literature, provide evidence of the extent of coverage of multicultural health issues in Australian healthcare research. A series of systematic literature reviews in three major...

    Authors: Pamela W Garrett, Hugh G Dickson, Anna Klinken Whelan and Linda Whyte
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2010 7:1
  4. Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of premature death of Indigenous Australians, and despite evidence that cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and secondary prevention can reduce recurrent disease and deaths, C...

    Authors: Sandra C Thompson, Michelle L DiGiacomo, Julie S Smith, Kate P Taylor, Lyn Dimer, Mohammed Ali, Marianne M Wood, Timothy G Leahy and Patricia M Davidson
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:29
  5. Epidemiology has a central role in public health practice, education and research, and is arguably the only discipline unique to public health. A strong perception exists among epidemiologists in Australia tha...

    Authors: Alice R Rumbold and Catherine M Bennett
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:26
  6. This paper presents Part 2 of a literature review examining medication safety in the Australian acute care setting. This review was undertaken for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care...

    Authors: Susan J Semple and Elizabeth E Roughead
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:24
  7. Workforce shortages in Australia are occurring across a range of health disciplines but are most acute in general practice. Skill mix change such as task substitution is one solution to workforce shortages. Th...

    Authors: Sarah Dennis, Jenny May, David Perkins, Nicholas Zwar, Bonnie Sibbald and Iqbal Hasan
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:23
  8. In response to the escalating burden of chronic illness in Australia, recent health policies have emphasised the promotion of patient self-management and better preventive care. A notable omission from these p...

    Authors: Tanisha Jowsey, Yun-Hee Jeon, Paul Dugdale, Nicholas J Glasgow, Marjan Kljakovic and Tim Usherwood
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:22
  9. Better communication is often suggested as fundamental to increasing the use of research evidence in policy, but little is known about how researchers and policy makers work together or about barriers to excha...

    Authors: Danielle M Campbell, Sally Redman, Louisa Jorm, Margaret Cooke, Anthony B Zwi and Lucie Rychetnik
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:21
  10. While the causes of obesity are well known traditional education and treatment strategies do not appear to be making an impact. One solution as part of a broader complimentary set of strategies may be regulato...

    Authors: Steven Allender, Erin Gleeson, Brad Crammond, Gary Sacks, Mark Lawrence, Anna Peeters, Bebe Loff and Boyd Swinburn
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:20
  11. This paper presents Part 1 of a two-part literature review examining medication safety in the Australian acute care setting. This review was undertaken for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in He...

    Authors: Elizabeth E Roughead and Susan J Semple
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:18
  12. Correction to Banks E, Jorm L, Lujic S, Rogers K. Health, ageing and private health insurance: baseline results from the 45 and Up Study cohort. ANZ Health Policy 2009; 6: 16.

    Authors: Emily Banks, Louisa Jorm, Sanja Lujic and Kris Rogers
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:17

    The original article was published in Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:16

  13. This study investigates the relationships between health and lifestyle factors, age and private health insurance (PHI) in a large Australian population-based cohort study of people aged 45 years and over; the ...

    Authors: Emily Banks, Louisa Jorm, Sanja Lujic and Kris Rogers
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:16

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:17

  14. At Independence the Government of Indonesia inherited a weak and unevenly distributed health system to which much of the population had only limited access. In response, the government decided to increase the ...

    Authors: Peter Heywood and Nida P Harahap
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:13
  15. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the public believes high cost patients should be a lower priority for public health care than low cost patients, other things being equal, in order to maximise h...

    Authors: John McKie, Bradley Shrimpton, Jeff Richardson and Rosalind Hurworth
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:11
  16. Residents of socioeconomically disadvantaged locations are more likely to have poor health than residents of socioeconomically advantaged locations and this has been comprehensively mapped in Australian cities...

    Authors: Elizabeth Harris, Mark F Harris, Lynne Madden, Marilyn Wise, Peter Sainsbury, John MacDonald and Betty Gill
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:10
  17. In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Tradition...

    Authors: Mary Louise Fleming, Elizabeth Parker, Trish Gould and Melinda Service
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:8
  18. Government anticipates that health economic analysis will contribute to evidence-based policy development. Early examples in Australia where this expectation has been met include the economic evaluations of br...

    Authors: Lynne Madden, Lesley King and Alan Shiell
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:6
  19. The International Health Regulations (2005) and the emergence and global spread of infectious diseases have triggered a re-assessment of how rich countries should support capacity development for communicable ...

    Authors: Mahomed S Patel and Christine B Phillips
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:5
  20. Health workforce has become a major concern and a significant health policy issue around the world in recent years. With recent international and national initiatives and models being developed and implemented...

    Authors: Vivian Lin, Rebecca Watson and Brian Oldenburg
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:4
  21. The health sector in Australia faces major challenges that include an ageing population, spiralling health care costs, continuing poor Aboriginal health, and emerging threats to public health. At the same time...

    Authors: Deborah H Gleeson, David G Legge and Deirdre O'Neill
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:3
  22. There is considerable potential for health research to contribute to improved health services, programs, and outcomes; the policies of health research funding agencies are critical to achieving health gains fr...

    Authors: Sophia Leon de la Barra, Sally Redman and Sandra Eades
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:2
  23. This article describes and evaluates some of the criteria on the basis of which food advertising to children on television could be regulated, including controls that revolve around the type of television prog...

    Authors: Elizabeth Handsley, Kaye Mehta, John Coveney and Chris Nehmy
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2009 6:1
  24. The Department of Health in Western Australia identified access to, and daily consumption of recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables, as priority health determinants. The numerous factors that influence su...

    Authors: Christina M Pollard, Janette M Lewis and Colin W Binns
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:27
  25. Worldwide, the public health community has recognized the growing problem of childhood obesity. But, unlike tobacco control policy, there is little evidence about what public policies would work to substantial...

    Authors: Stephen D Sugarman and Nirit Sandman
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:26
  26. In 2001, the New Zealand government introduced its Primary Health Care Strategy (PHCS), aimed at strengthening the role of primary health care, in order to improve health and to reduce inequalities in health. ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Cumming, Nicholas Mays and Barry Gribben
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:24
  27. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in Australia. Early detection provides the best chance of reducing mortality and morbidity from the disease. Mammographic screening is a population h...

    Authors: Carla Saunders, Monica Robotin and Sally Crossing
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:23
  28. "Joined-up' government and 'whole-of-government' approaches have evolved over the past two decades from the simple 'one-stop-shop' concept to much more formal organisational structures mandated at the highest ...

    Authors: Jim Hyde
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:22
  29. Many refugees arrive in Australia with complex health needs. In South Australia (SA), providing initial health care to refugees is the responsibility of General Practitioners (GPs) in private practice. Their c...

    Authors: David R Johnson, Anna M Ziersch and Teresa Burgess
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:20
  30. There is a severe shortage of nurses in Australia. Policy makers and researchers are especially concerned that retention levels of nurses in the health workforce have worsened over the last decade. There are a...

    Authors: Denise Doiron, Jane Hall and Glenn Jones
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:19
  31. This paper provides an historical review of physical activity policy development in Australia for a period spanning a decade since the release of the US Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health...

    Authors: Bill Bellew, Stephanie Schöeppe, Fiona C Bull and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:18
  32. In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognitio...

    Authors: Pim Kuipers, John S Humphreys, John Wakerman, Robert Wells, Judith Jones and Philip Entwistle
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:17
  33. Following her review of health systems and structures Dwyer [1] suggested that there is a need to evaluate models of care for individuals with chronic diseases. Rehabilitation services aim to optimise the activit...

    Authors: Susan K Graham, Ian D Cameron and Hugh G Dickson
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:15
  34. As obesity prevention becomes an increasing health priority in many countries, including Australia and New Zealand, the challenge that governments are now facing is how to adopt a systematic policy approach to...

    Authors: Gary Sacks, Boyd A Swinburn and Mark A Lawrence
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:13
  35. The commercial drivers of the obesity epidemic are so influential that obesity can be considered a robust sign of commercial success – consumers are buying more food, more cars and more energy-saving machines....

    Authors: Boyd A Swinburn
    Citation: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:12