{"title":"Report on the use of communication technology by a sample of public health professionals in NSW","authors":"Carlie J Naylor, D. Madden, Deborah J. Oong","doi":"10.1071/NB09S21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09S21","url":null,"abstract":"Executive summary A qualitative survey was carried out with a small sample of senior public health professionals to describe: the types of communication technology that they currently use; the situations in which they apply these at work; and their interest in pursuing these techniques in the future. Six techniques were investigated: teleconferencing, web bulletin boards, web conferencing, videoconferencing, media streaming and satellite television.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126708867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bug Breakfast in the Bulletin: Tuberculosis","authors":"M. Cretikos, Pamela Banner, G. Marks","doi":"10.1071/NB08046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08046","url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. In 2006, 9.2 million people worldwide acquired tuberculosis, 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis, and an additional 200 000 people died from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated tuberculosis.1 Tuberculosis is important because of this global burden of disease and the emerging risk of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, often in association with HIV infection in developing countries.1","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121922684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved oral health information for NSW","authors":"F. Wright, A. Blinkhorn, V. Saberi","doi":"10.1071/NB09010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"1988 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125487431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. O'connor, Lindy L. Fritsche, A. Christensen, J. McAnulty
{"title":"Tuberculosis in NSW, 2003-2007","authors":"B. O'connor, Lindy L. Fritsche, A. Christensen, J. McAnulty","doi":"10.1071/NB09001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09001","url":null,"abstract":"must report all cases to their local public health unit. Public health unit or chest clinic staff enter case details into the Notifiable Diseases Database (NDD), which is maintained by the Communicable Diseases Branch of the NSW Department of Health. Cases were assigned to their corresponding year of notification using a specific tuberculosis field in NDD called year of diagnosis. This field was added to NDD in 2004 to assist the assignment of cases where dates of onset, specimen collected, notification and treatment overlap years. Cases in 2003 and earlier were assigned to their corresponding year if their date of onset, date of report or date of notification fell between 1 January and 31 December of the relevant year. We analysed the characteristics of cases for the period 2003–2007 and examined trends in incidence since 1991. Incidence rates were calculated using the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimated mid-year population for the relevant year. Estimates for different resident populations by country of birth were provided by the Health Outcomes Information Statistical Toolkit (HOIST) and were calculated from a number of ABS datasets. 7","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122936434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mothers and Babies 2006","authors":"Barbara Bejuk, L. Taylor","doi":"10.1071/NB09S01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09S01","url":null,"abstract":"This is the tenth annual report on mothers and babies in NSW. The report draws information from a variety of sources including: the NSW Midwives Data Collection (MDC), the NSW Birth Defects Register (BDR), the Neonatal Intensive Care Units’ Data Collection (NICUS), and the Neonatal Intensive Care Units’ Follow-up Data Collection.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128225794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9. Neonatal intensive care","authors":"Barbara Bejuk, L. Taylor","doi":"10.1071/NB09S11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09S11","url":null,"abstract":"There were 2,296 infants registered in NICUS in 2006. The most common reasons for registration of an infant were assisted ventilation for four hours or more (46.5 per cent) and gestational age less than 29 weeks (16.2 per cent). Infants generally met more than one of the registration criteria.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116125311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"8. Maternal country of birth","authors":"Barbara Bejuk, L. Taylor","doi":"10.1071/NB09S10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09S10","url":null,"abstract":"Between 2005 and 2009, the percentage of mothers who were born in non–English speaking countries rose from 20.8% to 24.3% (Table 89). The increase was mainly among mothers born in Asian countries and the Middle East and Africa. There was a decline in the percentage of mothers born in Southern European countries and Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133964605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate change: an emerging health issue","authors":"A. Capon, E. Hanna","doi":"10.1071/NB08068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08068","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization chose climate change as the theme for last year’s World Health Day in an explicit attempt to attract policy-makers to the compelling evidence about the impacts of climate change on health. The reality of humaninduced climate change can no longer be doubted, but the extent of its consequences for health can still be reduced. Consideration of the health impacts of climate change can enable political leaders to act with the required urgency.1","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"295 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116587515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic and infectious diseases in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples","authors":"Patricia M. Morton, Jenny Hunt, Richard J. Weston","doi":"10.1071/NB07114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07114","url":null,"abstract":"Aboriginal Australians are hospitalised for endocrine, skin and respiratory conditions, external causes, circulatory diseases, infectious and parasitic diseases, mental and behavioural causes and complications of pregnancy at between 1.5 and 2.9 times the rate of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 Note that hospitalisation data have limitations as measures of morbidity: disparities between morbidity in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians are likely to be greater than indicated by these data. The premature mortality and higher morbidity in Aboriginal Australians are mainly due to chronic diseases primarily attributable to social, economic and educational disadvantage, with associated higher prevalence of negative health-related behaviours.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125937104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulation for chronic disease control: the pathfinder role of tobacco.","authors":"Andrew Penman","doi":"10.1071/NB08055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08055","url":null,"abstract":"Regulation for health in the modern era has its foundations in the English Public Health Act of 1848. Early legislation was concerned with controlling environmental causes of disease. However, the focus on regulation today within health departments has diminished, displaced by a focus on services and related programs. The regulatory debate is now centred on what degree of protection, or safety margin, is required, and how regulatory efficiency may be improved. The example of tobacco control is reviewed to show how regulation can play a large role in chronic disease control, and consideration given to how regulatory tools could be further diversified and regulatory effectiveness improved.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115177554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}