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“Not just students in need”: Findings from a nominal group technique study of what parents want in an Australian school-provided meal system “不只是有需要的学生”：一项名义上的小组技术研究的结果，研究了父母对澳大利亚学校提供的膳食系统的需求

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100221

Alexandra C. Manson , Rebecca K. Golley , Dimity C. Dutch , Brittany J. Johnson

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Public holidays, school holidays, and long weekends: Effects on drowning rates in New South Wales 公共假期、学校假期和长周末：对新南威尔士州溺水率的影响。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100212

Edwina Mead , Chen-Chun Shu , Pooria Sarrami , Rona Macniven , Amy E. Peden

{"title":"Public holidays, school holidays, and long weekends: Effects on drowning rates in New South Wales","authors":"Edwina Mead , Chen-Chun Shu , Pooria Sarrami , Rona Macniven , Amy E. Peden","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100212","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100212","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To quantify drowning rates and fatal to non-fatal drowning ratios on public holidays, school holidays, weekdays and long weekends in New South Wales from January 2010 to June 2022.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using a linked administrative dataset comprising ambulance (paper-based and electronic records), emergency department presentations and death registry, rates of drowning and ratios of fatal to non-fatal drowning were calculated.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Across 4,161 total drowning incidents, public holidays (14.21 incidents/100,000 person-years) and weekends (6.77 incidents/100,000 person-years) had higher population-normalised incident rates than regular weekdays (3.18 incidents/100,000 person-years). School holidays (8.58 incidents/100,000 person-years) recorded higher rates than non-school holiday days (3.46 incidents/100,000 person-years). New Year’s Day and Australia Day accounted for 4.7% of all incidents (n=197 incidents). Drowning during school holidays was higher than non-school holiday days across all seasons, aside from winter school holidays.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Drowning risk is higher on days typically associated with greater leisure time. This study adds to the growing literature identifying temporal variation in drowning risk and is the first to use linked data.</div></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><div>Those tasked with supervising aquatic locations and the provision of water safety messaging should consider the targeted strategies for holidays and weekends such as extended patrols and media-based risk communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143036313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Protective factors for psychological wellbeing: A cross-sectional study of young people attending an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare service 心理健康的保护因素：参加城市土著居民和托雷斯海峡岛民初级保健服务的年轻人的横断面研究。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100218

Geoffrey K.P. Spurling , Deborah A. Askew , Noel E. Hayman , Philip J. Schluter

{"title":"Protective factors for psychological wellbeing: A cross-sectional study of young people attending an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare service","authors":"Geoffrey K.P. Spurling , Deborah A. Askew , Noel E. Hayman , Philip J. Schluter","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study aimed to measure associations between protective factors associated with positive psychological outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living in an urban area.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Our primary outcome was the absence of psychological distress, reflecting a positive-outcome approach to analyse health assessment data, using modified Poisson regression, from a cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth aged 15 to 24 years attending an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health service (2016–2021).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Health assessments from 710 participants were analysed, with 72.1% of young people found to not be experiencing depression. Exercise, sport, and absences of marijuana use, smoking cigarettes, difficulty getting a job, homelessness, trouble with the police and experience of violence were associated with an absence of depression.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Most young people were not experiencing depression. A positive-outcome approach provided evidence to support avenues to success which need to be developed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.</div></div><div><h3>Implications for public health</h3><div>Policy makers, clinicians and health services need to resource and maximise opportunities to access safe accommodation, participate in employment, exercise and play sport and to avoid marijuana, cigarettes, violence and trouble with the police.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143063473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Identifying public health competencies for Australian pharmacists: A modified Delphi study 确定澳大利亚药剂师的公共卫生能力：一项改进的德尔菲研究。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100210

Robin Warren , Louise Young , Karen Carlisle , Ian Heslop , Beverley Glass

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The prevalence of mandated and voluntary health information on alcohol products in Australia 关于酒精产品的强制性和自愿性健康信息在澳大利亚的普及程度。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100215

Simone Pettigrew , Asad Yusoff , Bella Sträuli , Leon Booth , Paula O’Brien , Jacquie Bowden , Aimee Brownbill , Julia Stafford , Michelle I Jongenelis , Tazman Davies , Tanya Chikritzhs , Tim Stockwell , Fraser Taylor , Alexandra Jones

{"title":"The prevalence of mandated and voluntary health information on alcohol products in Australia","authors":"Simone Pettigrew , Asad Yusoff , Bella Sträuli , Leon Booth , Paula O’Brien , Jacquie Bowden , Aimee Brownbill , Julia Stafford , Michelle I Jongenelis , Tazman Davies , Tanya Chikritzhs , Tim Stockwell , Fraser Taylor , Alexandra Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Regulations to restrict alcohol promotion and requirements for mandatory display of information about health risks associated with alcohol use have been minimal and hard-won in Australia. This study (i) outlines an approach to monitoring alcohol industry use of health messages on alcohol products and (ii) reports prevalence and nature of government-mandated health-related information and voluntary health messages on alcohol products.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Images of 5,923 alcohol products sold in four large alcohol stores in Sydney were captured. Data were collected in-store and via web-scraping. Label content was extracted from the images.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>There was high compliance (97%-99%) with government-mandated requirements other than the pregnancy warning label (63%). Presence of voluntary health-related messages was common (65%), but typically present in the form of DrinkWise (an industry-led social aspects/public relations organisation) statements that are unlikely to be effective.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study provides a unique and systematic approach to examining alcohol industry compliance with government-mandated on-product information requirements and voluntary inclusion of other health-related messages.</div></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><div>The results demonstrate the need for ongoing monitoring to enforce alcohol industry compliance with Australia’s existing and future labelling regulations and to assess the industry’s voluntary use of other forms of health messaging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100215"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143254470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Community cleaner air spaces during landscape fire events: What do we know? 在景观火灾事件期间，社区更清洁的空气空间：我们知道什么？

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100222

Sharon L. Campbell , Janice Wormworth , Donna Green , Nigel Goodman , Sotiris Vardoulakis , Fay H. Johnston , Amanda J. Wheeler

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Welcoming the new ANZJPH editor-in-chief 欢迎新上任的澳新公共卫生研究所总编辑及其加强公共卫生研究的战略发展计划。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100217

Alix Hall , Sam McCrabb , Michael Tong , Adyya Gupta , Brianna Poirier , Lisa McHugh , Ye In (Jane) Hwang , Alex P. Metse , Linda Murray , Lisa Gaye Smithers , Summer May Finlay , Luke Wolfenden

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“Basically, my answer is, there needs to be options!” Recommendations for the delivery of free menstrual products to the public: A qualitative exploration among marginalised groups in Victoria, Australia “基本上，我的答案是，需要有选择！”向公众提供免费月经产品的建议：对澳大利亚维多利亚州边缘群体的定性探索。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100219

Alexandra Head , Megan S.C. Lim , Ana Orozco , Laura Dunstan , Amy Kirwan , Julie Hennegan

{"title":"“Basically, my answer is, there needs to be options!” Recommendations for the delivery of free menstrual products to the public: A qualitative exploration among marginalised groups in Victoria, Australia","authors":"Alexandra Head , Megan S.C. Lim , Ana Orozco , Laura Dunstan , Amy Kirwan , Julie Hennegan","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100219","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100219","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Governments have announced free menstrual product provision policies. Our research aimed to inform these initiatives by understanding menstrual product insecurity amongst marginalised groups and their recommendations for product provision.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We undertook in-depth interviews with participants experiencing menstrual product insecurity, who identified as belonging to one or more marginalised groups, alongside key informants working for organisations serving these populations. Groups included those on low income, people experiencing housing insecurity, people living with disabilities, multicultural groups, gender-diverse people, and young people. Qualitative content analysis was undertaken using a framework approach.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Thirty participants and five key informants participated. Participant recommendations for service delivery emphasised convenience, product choice and prioritisation of those with the greatest need whilst preventing misuse. Participants also considered the balance between the privacy and visibility of delivery mechanisms and the opportunity to address other menstrual needs including education and stigma through product provision policies.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>No single delivery approach best suits the needs of all people. Delivery mechanisms must consider how to provide participants’ recommended features.</div></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><div>To best reduce menstrual product insecurity, governments should consider delivering products through multiple mechanisms. Co-development of policy implementation methods with intended beneficiaries, and thorough evaluation, will support uptake.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100219"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143021824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Yarning about vaccinations: Empowering individuals to have supportive conversations with Aboriginal peoples about vaccinations, using a community-engaged approach 关于接种疫苗的讨论：利用社区参与的方法，授权个人与土著人民就接种疫苗进行支持性对话。

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100206

E. Harwood , K. Taylor , K. Clark , P. Murray , J. Stephenson , K. Bolsewicz , J. Leask , K. Crooks

{"title":"Yarning about vaccinations: Empowering individuals to have supportive conversations with Aboriginal peoples about vaccinations, using a community-engaged approach","authors":"E. Harwood , K. Taylor , K. Clark , P. Murray , J. Stephenson , K. Bolsewicz , J. Leask , K. Crooks","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study assessed the effectiveness of Aboriginal-led vaccine workshops to enhance knowledge, confidence and supportive conversations regarding scheduled and recommended vaccinations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Hunter New England, New South Wales, Australia.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We adapted and indigenised an existing vaccine conversation program. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people were recruited to workshops delivered either online or face to face.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Seventy participants attended the workshops. Most reported high satisfaction with the workshop content and format, and most reported increased confidence in having vaccine conversations. Post-workshop yarns highlighted the positive impact on community knowledge and collaboration.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Aboriginal-informed and -led education enables and empowers service providers and community members to engage in supportive vaccine conversations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.</div></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><div>These findings highlight the need for localised strategies to enhance vaccine understanding with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, as well as offering valuable insights to tailor immunisation programs and rollouts of future vaccines.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100206"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142998863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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National, state and territory trends in gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia, 2016-2021: Differences by state/territory and country of birth 2016-2021年澳大利亚全国、州和地区妊娠糖尿病趋势：各州/地区和出生国的差异

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100202

Wubet Worku Takele , Lachlan L. Dalli , Siew Lim , Jacqueline A. Boyle

{"title":"National, state and territory trends in gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia, 2016-2021: Differences by state/territory and country of birth","authors":"Wubet Worku Takele , Lachlan L. Dalli , Siew Lim , Jacqueline A. Boyle","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To examine trends of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Australia by state/territory and country of birth.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A cross-sectional study was undertaken from 2016 to 2021 using data from the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) and Australian Bureau of Statistics. The trends were assessed using Average Annual Percentage Changes (AAPCs) and the Cochrane–Armitage test.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Nationally, the age-standardised incidence of GDM was 9.3% (95%CI; 9.1–9.4) in 2016 and 15.7% (95%CI; 15.4–15.9) in 2021, representing AAPC of +10.9%. The highest increase was in the Northern Territory, from 6.7% (95%CI; 5.1–8.3) in 2016 to 19.2% (95%CI; 16.9–21.6) in 2021, AAPC=+24.6%. In Southeast Asian-born women, the incidence of GDM rose from 12.2% (95%CI; 11.7–12.7) in 2016 to 22.5% (95%CI; 21.9–23.2) in 2021 (<em>p</em><sub>-<em>trend</em></sub><0.001).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The incidence of GDM has risen in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory and Victoria, as well as among those born in Southeast Asia and South and Central Asia.</div></div><div><h3>Implications for public health</h3><div>This increase in GDM incidence in Australia underscores the pressing need for location and culturally responsive GDM prevention interventions. The lack of information on some risk factors of GDM (e.g. high body mass index) in the NDSS registry requires further investigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142806063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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