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{"title":"Correction to ‟Geographical Disparities in Faecal Immunochemical Test-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening Participation and Positivity Rates: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70181","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13484125/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147575815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Non-Indigenous Public Health Educators' Readiness to Engage With Aboriginal Elders and Knowledge-Holders: A Baseline Study Informing Indigenous-Led Consultation.","authors":"Elizabeth Curran, Rebecca Stockdale, Neetu George, Liz Cameron, Patricia Taylor","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70175","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70175","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Including Indigenous perspectives in public health curricula supports the development of culturally competent practitioners, using examples of lived experience from Indigenous Australians. Existing literature demonstrates the benefits of Indigenous Elder and knowledge-holder inclusion in tertiary settings. However, there is a need for literature that focuses on the benefits of relational partnerships with Indigenous Elders and knowledge-holders in public health education.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study aimed to understand how public health educators in a university setting perceive the benefits, barriers and enablers of collaboration with Elders and knowledge-holders for co-creating public health content that informs curriculum change. Naturalistic qualitative description was the selected methodology. Seventeen health educators were purposively recruited from a Victorian University's Faculty of Health. These participants provided de-identified data through an open-ended Qualtrics survey. This data underwent thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Inductive findings suggested that eight of the participants currently draw on Elder knowledge in their teaching. The authentic experience of Elders was perceived as important to culturally safe education for public health students. Participants identified a lack of university-wide support as a barrier to engaging with elders.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Participants were ready to engage meaningfully when supported with or enabled by policies and practices that reflect a whole-of-university approach, that is, support and investment from the university rather than a reliance on individual engagement. SO WHAT?: It is now necessary to give voice to Elders and knowledge-holders to understand how they would like to be involved in this context, as this was beyond the scope of this project.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12999545/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147482059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Availability of Falls Prevention Programmes for Diverse Communities in Greater Sydney: A Gap Analysis.","authors":"Fatemeh Abdi, Ben Harris-Roxas, Rebecca Ivers","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70172","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Falls are a major health risk for older Australians, causing most injury-related hospitalisations and deaths in this age group. Despite growth in Australia's older culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) population, limited data exist on the availability and suitability of falls prevention programmes for this group. This study examines the availability and suitability of such programmes for CALD populations in local government areas (LGAs) in Greater Sydney, NSW.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An audit of publicly available demographic data and falls prevention programme offerings from 20 LGAs was conducted, based on language diversity and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA)-Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) score. Seven LGAs with the highest and lowest SEIFA-IRSD scores, plus seven LGAs with the most and least linguistic diversity were included. Data are presented using column charts to identify trends.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fewer programmes were found in areas of greater disadvantage and higher linguistic diversity. Least disadvantaged areas offered more programmes, whilst the most disadvantaged and linguistically diverse areas offered fewer. Only one programme was offered in a language other than English, in a least disadvantaged LGA (Ku-Ring-Gai). These trends suggest that programme availability does not align with community needs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Disparities exist in falls prevention programme availability across LGAs, with fewer programmes in areas of higher disadvantage and linguistic diversity, highlighting access inequities for older CALD populations. SO WHAT?: Older CALD populations in high-need LGAs have reduced access to falls prevention programmes, signalling a need for targeted, culturally and linguistically appropriate health promotion initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70172"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12991855/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Restricting E-Cigarette Flavour Names to Reduce Youth Appeal: An Analysis of New Zealand's 2024 Regulations.","authors":"Lucy Hardie, Cohen Radich, Meghana Bandlamudi, Judith McCool","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70171","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issue addressed: </strong>Appealing e-cigarette flavours have been an important factor in experimentation and uptake among young people. In an effort to curb high rates of youth vaping, in 2024, the New Zealand Government introduced regulations to restrict e-cigarette flavours that may appeal to young people. The regulations require that e-cigarette products are described using up to two flavour names from a specified list. This research analyses whether online retailers comply with the regulations and provides insights into popular flavours.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using content analysis methods, we identified popular online retailers in New Zealand. We extracted flavour names from e-cigarette product listings on retailer websites to analyse compliance and categorised products to explore popular flavour profiles.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 22 retailers included in the sample, only 4 (18.0%) fully complied with the restrictions. Of the 6939 total e-cigarette products (e-liquids, pods and disposables), 25.9% (n = 1794) did not comply with the regulations. Most flavours in the sample were fruity or sweet (78.9%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>New Zealand retailers frequently breach the flavour regulations. Despite many permitted options, retailers often attempt workarounds to bypass regulations, including listing products under previous names or descriptors that are not permitted, such as 'ice' or 'cola'. Sweet and fruit flavours dominate the online market. SO WHAT?: E-cigarette flavour restrictions should include sweet and fruit flavours to reduce appeal to youth and be supported by rigorous enforcement to prevent common retail workarounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12991852/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Planning and Implementing Social Media Communication in a Public Health Crisis: An Analytical Perspective.","authors":"Babatunde A Balogun, A Hogden, L Yang, M Agaliotis, N Kemp","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70179","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issue addressed: </strong>The use of social media as a public communication tool by public health service organisations (PHSOs) gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as the pandemic evolved into a prolonged public health crisis, PHSOs faced challenges in effectively engaging the public with crisis directives. Despite its growing importance, there is scant research on how PHSOs formulated and implemented their social media communication plans as part of their pandemic management.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Textual analysis and quality appraisal of the first COVID-19 pandemic management plans and the post-COVID reports of Australia's foremost federal and jurisdictional PHSOs were undertaken. The Prevention-Preparedness-Response-Recovery framework for emergency management informed the analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Sixteen documents were identified as relevant for inclusion in the review. Textual analysis revealed that Australia's PHSOs initially exhibited inertia in recognising social media as a strategic tool for public communication, as the documents were primarily focused on the response phase of the pandemic. The documents contained insufficient evidence of goals and metrics that could have informed how social media was used for public engagement. Jurisdictions varied in their perception of pandemic risks and in their use of social media to communicate public health directives.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The content of the PHSOs' strategic pandemic management plans for COVID-19 played a major role in how social media communication of public health directives was implemented. SO WHAT?: This study offers actionable insights on public health communication for pandemic management to practitioners, highlighting aspects of social media communication plans to support timely implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13051203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Views of Swim School Providers on Impacts of a Population-Level Swimming Lesson Voucher Program.","authors":"Amy E Peden, Edwina Mead, Rona Macniven","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70177","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issue addressed: </strong>Learning to swim reduces drowning risk and facilitates access to lifetime health benefits of aquatic activity. Amid cost-of-living pressures and disparities in swimming lesson access, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have invested in strategies to foster access and participation. This study examines the swim school industry's perceived impacts of the NSW government First Lap voucher program to subsidise swimming lessons for young children.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A mixed-methods approach analysed anonymous survey responses of 100 swim schools. Quantitative analysis calculated frequencies with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI), and thematic analysis was applied to open-ended qualitative responses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most providers (63%) reported increased enrolment (95% CI 53%-72%) and 58% noted boosted income (95% CI 48%-67%) since program commencement. Sixty-nine percent observed more new enrolments (95% CI 60%-78%), leading to additional classes (57%; 95% CI 47%-67%) and teaching staff hours (59%; 95% CI 49%-68%). Increased pool space usage (36%; 95% CI 27%-46%) and non-teaching staff hours (36%; 95% CI 26%-45%) were noted. Key themes derived from open-ended question responses included swim schools' operational impacts (such as promotional opportunities, student retention and increased administration) and family effects, such as improved affordability and earlier enrolment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings highlight benefits such as increased enrolment and income, alongside industry challenges in staffing and resourcing. Future research should explore voucher programs' impact on participant retention and long-term enrolment outcomes. SO WHAT?: This study details impacts of a population-level voucher program on the aquatic industry, addressing a knowledge gap around the role and views of industry, which can inform future health promotion strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13005089/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147494111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Regulation to Health Promotion: Leveraging Australia's Social Media Restriction to Advance Digital Wellbeing for Young People.","authors":"Emma Heard, Carmel Williams, Meg Crawford, Anikka Way","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.70182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147595726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment and Use of Electronic Patient Records for Smoking Cessation Support in Hospital Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Stephen Barrett, Gabrielle Barrett, Tim Milroy","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70167","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70167","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issue addressed: </strong>Tobacco use remains a leading cause of preventable illness and death. Hospital admissions offer a critical opportunity to support smoking cessation. Electronic patient record (ePR) systems can enable systematic identification and coordination of cessation care; however, clinician engagement with smoking-related ePR functionality is not well understood. This study examined smoking-related assessment and documentation practices, and determinants influencing use of the ePR for smoking cessation support in a regional Australian hospital.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional survey was distributed to clinicians working on inpatient wards. The survey assessed how often clinicians asked about smoking, what information they collected and documented, and clinicians' knowledge and use of ePR functionality to support cessation. Barriers and enablers were explored using the NASSS (Non-adoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread, Sustainability) framework, which considers technology use across clinical, organisational and system levels.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 101 respondents, 93% reported routinely asking about smoking status. However, only 50% indicated that they knew how to identify smoking status within the ePR, and fewer than 20% reported confidence in using the system to assess nicotine dependence or provide structured cessation support. Only 6% had received relevant training. Reported barriers included lack of knowledge, limited training, low system usability and competing priorities within workflows.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>While most clinicians ask about smoking, effective use of the ePR to deliver comprehensive cessation support remains limited. SO WHAT?: Improving smoking cessation support in hospital settings requires more than clinician intent. Training, embedded decision support and better system integration are needed to close the gap between clinical opportunity and evidence-based care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13051030/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Usefulness of Australian Screen Time Guidelines for Toddlers and Preschoolers.","authors":"George Thomas, Samara Lau, Sjaan Gomersall, Michalis Stylianou, Matthew Bourke, Stephanie L Duncombe, Ineke Vergeer, Alina Morawska, Stewart Trost, John Cairney, Stuart Biddle","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70178","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70178","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issue addressed: </strong>Managing screen use is a major concern for Australian parents of young children. However, little is known about how parents perceive, understand and appraise national screen time guidelines for children aged between 1 and 5 years. This study examined parental knowledge, attitudes and perceived usefulness of the Australian screen time guidelines and explored associations with sociodemographic factors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were drawn from a cross-sectional online survey of Australian parents (n = 229) of young children aged between 1 and 5 years. Knowledge of screen time guidelines (multiple-choice item), attitudes (4 items; 5-point scale) and perceived usefulness (3 items; 5-point scale) were examined. Descriptive statistics were calculated for independent variables and regression models estimated to examine sociodemographic factors associated with knowledge, attitudes and perceived usefulness.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Parents of toddlers were 4.45 times (p < 0.001) more likely to know the screen time guidelines than parents of preschoolers. Knowledge was lower among parents in full-time employment and those living in major cities (p < 0.05). Attitudes did not differ by demographics, but parents of girls rated the guidelines as more useful than parents of boys (p = 0.038). Higher attitude scores (p = 0.017) and greater perceived usefulness (p = 0.047) were associated with correctly identifying the guidelines.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Knowledge gaps exist, particularly among parents of preschoolers, those employed full-time and those living in major cities. Targeted education with diverse parent groups is needed to ensure guidelines are both understood and perceived as useful. SO WHAT?: Inclusive guidelines, supported by tailored education and implementation strategies for key parent groups, may improve understanding and uptake in realistic family contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13036367/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147582761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating Occupational Health and Safety and Health Promotion: A Qualitative Study in Australia.","authors":"Yanming Lu, Nektarios Karanikas, Julie-Anne Carroll","doi":"10.1002/hpja.70173","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hpja.70173","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issue addressed: </strong>Growing evidence supports integrating occupational health and safety (OHS) and workplace health promotion (WHP) to enhance worker health, safety and wellbeing. This study aimed to explore in Australia: (1) the reasons for implementing OHS and WHP separately or concurrently/jointly; and (2) potential preferences and implementation contexts of integrated OHS-WHP approaches.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This qualitative study involved focus groups (n = 3) and individual interviews (n = 40) with 47 OHS professionals, health promotion (HP) professionals, occupational health professionals and employers in Australia. Data were collected between October 2024 and March 2025. A thematic inductive analysis was employed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Several important insights include: (1) knowledge and attitudes of professionals towards OHS or WHP, particularly regarding OHS professionals' limited understanding of WHP and HP professionals' difficulties with OHS terminology; (2) reasons for inadequate integration implementation, including scarce WHP implementation, invisible WHP benefits, poor WHP evaluation, differing views of OHS professionals about WHP, debate about worker health and WHP quality and implementation issues; (3) trends and examples of integration, often motivated by factors like COVID-19 and occurring more successfully in large organisations, though often hindered by departmental siloing; and (4) roles, attitudes and knowledge of employers, with varying support for integration across management levels and organisational sizes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Limited implementation of integrated OHS-WHP approaches in Australia stems from lack of policy emphases, professional knowledge gaps, and WHP implementation and evaluation concerns. SO WHAT?: Urgent educational opportunities for employers and OHS professionals are needed to foster a holistic consideration of worker health and wellbeing, encouraging meaningful collaboration with health professionals and applying systems thinking to contemporary WHP.</p>","PeriodicalId":47379,"journal":{"name":"Health Promotion Journal of Australia","volume":"37 2","pages":"e70173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12993110/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}