{"title":"The NSW Health Resource Distribution Formula and health inequalities.","authors":"Andrew Gibbs, Rick Sondalini, J. Pearse","doi":"10.1071/NB02019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02019","url":null,"abstract":"A key feature of the NSW health system is its 17 geographically-based area health services (AHSs). Funding to the AHSs by the NSW Department of Health has been guided by the objective of providing the AHSs with a share of resources that allows the achievement of comparable access to health services.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121417927","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":"EpiReview: Cryptosporidiosis in NSW, 1990–2000","authors":"R. Menzies","doi":"10.1071/NB02024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02024","url":null,"abstract":"Cryptosporidium parvum is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes disease in humans and other mammals. It was first described in 1907, but was not shown to cause human illness until 1976. Transmission occurs by the faecal–oral route; consequently, person-to-person transmission can occur—especially between household members, sexual partners, and children in day-care. Animal-to-human transmission may occur, especially from farm animals.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121324277","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":"Building the evidence base to address health inequalities.","authors":"Helen Catchatoor","doi":"10.1071/NB02022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02022","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian Health Inequalities Research Collaboration (HIRC) was established by the Commonwealth Government in 1999. In the July 2001 issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin (Volume 12, Number 7), Dixon and Sibthorpe, from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, reviewed the work of HIRC in its first 18 months. Here we provide an update of its activities.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129449171","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":"Growing apart: further analysis of income trends in the 1990s.","authors":"A. Harding","doi":"10.1071/NB02023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02023","url":null,"abstract":"There has been debate in Australia about whether income in is increasing. Using annual income data, a range of studies suggested that income in increased in the 1980s. Using weekly income data, Harding found that income in had remained stable between 1982 and 1993–94, and between 1982 and 1996–97. However, it has since emerged that there may be major problems with the weekly income data collected in the 1982 Income Survey, so that there are now doubts about the reliability of results based on this data.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131584900","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":"How can evidence-based practice contribute to reducing health inequalities in NSW?","authors":"S. Leeder","doi":"10.1071/NB02020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02020","url":null,"abstract":"Health inequalities are apparent within Australia; however, they are more starkly obvious when we compare our health with that of our Pacific and Asian neighbours. In examining how evidence-based practice can help reduce health inequalities, I begin with an example of how evidence obtained from research has been useful in dealing with a cause of massive health inequalities, a problem that consigned millions to the twilight zone of mental retardation.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116206153","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":"Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities: issues of relevance for policy.","authors":"G. Turrell","doi":"10.1071/NB02021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02021","url":null,"abstract":"During the twentieth century, the health of the Australian population improved markedly: life expectancy increased; the toll of communicable disease was reduced; and, in more recent times, death rates for cardiovascular disease and a number of major cancers have begun to decline. However, against this backdrop of improving overall health, large health inequalities continue to exist between socioeconomic groups; and, for some conditions, these inequalities are increasing over time.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132847092","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":"How can primary care increase equity in health?","authors":"M. Harris, J. Furler","doi":"10.1071/NB02017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02017","url":null,"abstract":"A number of comparative studies have demonstrated an association between the provision of primary care in developed countries and favourable markers of health status. There is also evidence for an association between health-care systems that are organised around a strong primary-care sector and reduced health inequalities.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132555387","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":"Can the Families First initiative contribute to reducing health inequalities?","authors":"G. Alperstein, V. Nossar","doi":"10.1071/NB02018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02018","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the ways in which Families First—a coordinated strategy of the NSW Government that has increased the effectiveness of early intervention and prevention services in helping families to raise healthy and well adjusted children—can contribute to reducing health inequalities.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117226518","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":"Tackling health inequalities: Balancing universal and targeted approaches.","authors":"E. Harris, P. Sainsbury","doi":"10.1071/NB02016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02016","url":null,"abstract":"In 1998–99 expenditure on health services in NSW was estimated at A$17.6 billion. This is made up of contributions by the Commonwealth (A$8.3 billion), State and Local Governments (A$4 billion) and payments through medical benefits funds, personal contributions, and insurance claims, etc. (A$5.3 billion). Many tens of thousands of people work in the health system and in the course of 12 months most people will have had contact with the health system.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"75 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123156991","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":"The NSW Men's Health Information and Resource Centre","authors":"D. Crawford, Anthony M. Brown, Dennis Mcdermott","doi":"10.1071/NB01111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB01111","url":null,"abstract":"The Men’s Health Information and Resource Centre (MHIRC) aims to support the development of ways to enable boys and men to lead fulfilling lives and thereby contribute to a better quality of life for all members of society. A priority of MHIRC is to promote the health and wellbeing of those men and boys who are disadvantaged, including indigenous men, homeless men, and older men. To meet its aims and purpose, the MHIRC’s activities focus on the following key result areas: networking and resource–information brokerage; research projects; special projects; and partnerships.","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125783515","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}