New South Wales Public Health Bulletin最新文献

{"title":"Ensuring safe drinking water in regional NSW: the role of regulation.","authors":"P. Byleveld, M. Cretikos, Sandy D Leask, D. Durrheim","doi":"10.1071/NB08031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08031","url":null,"abstract":"In regional and rural areas of NSW, drinking water is provided by 107 local water utilities serving a total population of some 1.7 million and operating 323 water supply systems. NSW Health exercises public health oversight of these regional water utilities through the NSW Health Drinking Water Monitoring Program, which provides guidance to water utilities on implementing elements of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines 2004, including drinking water monitoring.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"14 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":"115423190","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":"Public health and regulation of the built environment.","authors":"S. Corbett","doi":"10.1071/NB08048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08048","url":null,"abstract":"The earliest public health statutes contrived to develop effective controls of the excesses of the rapid urban development that accompanied the industrial revolution. By the end of the 20th century, much responsibility for the regulation of the built environment has been dispersed across government and in so doing has moved beyond the gaze of everyday public health concern. This paper argues firstly that there is a strong justification for greater public health involvement in the ongoing regulation of the built environment and secondly that a much broader range of health impacts needs to be considered in the conception of these regulatory measures.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"31 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114105163","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 of research through research governance: within and beyond NSW Health.","authors":"Geof Bloom, Deborah Frew","doi":"10.1071/NB08032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08032","url":null,"abstract":"Research governance takes a broad approach to the regulation of human research encompassing: (a) frameworks and systems over ad hoc policy making; (b) quality standards as well as regulatory requirements; and (c) definition of roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in research. The effective and consistent implementation of research governance plays a role in the promotion of quality research. NSW Health has recently issued several policies and procedures in relation to research governance. However, for regimes of research governance to achieve optimal effectiveness, they must be consistent with each other in both the public and private sectors and across Australian jurisdictions.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"9 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":"128963196","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":"Enforcing law on tobacco sales to minors: getting the question and action right.","authors":"D. Tutt","doi":"10.1071/NB08033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08033","url":null,"abstract":"There is a substantial history of health-related law in Australia, but only recently has this included a significant amount of state regulation pertaining to tobacco promotion, sale and public use. The important question is: under what circumstances do regulation and law enforcement work? Rigorous, energetic, long-term local law enforcement on the supply of tobacco to minors demonstrates success in preventing uptake. A model for success combines education, enforcement and publicity; a model used to some effect in alcohol law. Future directions in regulation might include on-the-spot penalties; ensuring the law is simple and has community support; striving for sufficient resources, enthusiasm and skills; and making the tobacco retail industry pay some of the costs of regulating that industry.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"4 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":"115257154","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: Legionnaires","authors":"Ingrid A. Evans, A. Marich, P. Harding","doi":"10.1071/NB08008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116891320","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":"Influencing urban environments for health: NSW Health's response","authors":"S. Thackway, A. Milat, E. Develin","doi":"10.1071/NB07105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07105","url":null,"abstract":"At all levels of the urbanisation debate – global, national and local, it is apparent that health must become actively engaged in order to enhance the sustainability of planning activities. HIA is now established as one tool to facilitate that engagement. This issue of the Bulletin shows that NSW is now in a position, as a world leader on HIA, to support the pivotal future role that urbanisation will play in influencing the health of populations and communities.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114572460","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":"Health impact assessment in urban settings","authors":"P. Harris, Ben Harris-Roxas, L. Kemp","doi":"10.1071/NB07104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07104","url":null,"abstract":"Health impact assessment is being used to support and deliver healthy and sustainable communities in major urban areas around the world. This article discusses some of the latest international developments in the use of health impact assessment in urban settings: in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. It outlines the implications of this work and describes some of the challenges facing practitioners in predicting health impacts and providing solutions to protecting and enhancing health and wellbeing in urban settings. Salim Vohra Centre for Health Impact Assessment, Institute of Occupational Medicine, UK Email: salim.vohra@iom-world.org North America Unlike the USA, Canada has a longstanding record in the field of HIA, healthy public policy and the consideration of the health impacts of policies, plans, programs and projects.3,4 Only in the last few years has HIA gathered momentum in the USA, with the growing recognition that health and wellbeing are critical issues for major urban areas.5 Leading institutions, notably the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, have begun to carry out HIAs on urban development plans and projects.6–8 One example of the imaginative work happening in North America is the work of the Design for Health initiative. This collaboration between the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, two major health insurance associations, aims to bridge the gap between community design, healthy living and land development planning.9 The Design Center’s work is done by an interdisciplinary team with backgrounds in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, public health and landscape ecology. They have created a HIA tool and a set of HIA materials and information for other agencies and organisations in Minnesota to use when developing new urban plans and projects. Europe HIA has been practised in Europe for almost a decade with the UK, Finland and the Netherlands among others being major proponents.10 In Europe the major driving forces for the way HIA is being used in urban settings have been the health inequalities, sustainability and climate change agendas. One example of the leading edge HIA activity in Europe is the work of the London Healthy Urban Development Unit. This Unit is investigating the links between urban planning and health and has developed a range of HIA tools to help improve health and wellbeing in London.11 Their financial model is the first of its kind internationally to estimate the capital and revenue costs of health-care services for new housing developments and extensions to existing urban areas. It is also pioneering the use of Geographical Information Systems to map existing health, social, leisure and cultural facilities and plan the situation of new facilities to ensure that they are evenly distributed and accessible to all.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114136716","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: Q fever","authors":"Melissa J Irwin, A. Lloyd, P. Massey","doi":"10.1071/NB07037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07037","url":null,"abstract":"Human transmission occurs through inhalation of aerosols of infected body fluids, the ingestion of unpasteurised milk or dairy products, or by inhalation of dried infectious dusts. Person-to-person transmission is rare. Those most at risk of Q fever are abattoir workers, livestock workers and veterinarians, farmers, shearers and laboratory workers. The Australian annual notification rate peaked at 4.9 per 100000 persons in 1993 and decreased to 1.7 per 100000 persons in 2005.3 The highest incidence of Q fever occurs in south and central-western Queensland and northern NSW areas with men aged 40–44 years having the highest age-specific rate.4,5","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"s3-19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130083853","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: Ross River virus.","authors":"P. Spokes, S. Doggett, C. Webb","doi":"10.1071/NB07020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07020","url":null,"abstract":"Ross River virus (RRV) is the most common mosquitoborne disease notified within Australia and is a significant public health issue for NSW. There have been more than 7500 notifications of RRV in NSW over the past 10 years. Peak seasons occurred in 1996–97 (1547 notified cases) and 2005–06 (1268 notified cases), with an average of 683 notifications for the 11 seasons before this.1 The November 2006 Bug Breakfast topic focussed on RRV and outlined a joint regional approach to mosquito management called ‘Living with Mosquitoes’.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124417372","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: refugee health.","authors":"K. Kardamanidis, Mitchell M Smith, S. Vagholkar","doi":"10.1071/NB07015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07015","url":null,"abstract":"Refugees are people living outside of their country of nationality because of a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a certain social group or political opinion.1 Asylum seekers are people who have applied for recognition as refugees and are awaiting a decision on their application.2 If their application is successful they receive refugee status.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126476449","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}