Grace Arnot , Hannah Pitt , Simone McCarthy , Chloe Cordedda , Sarah Marko , Samantha L. Thomas
{"title":"Australian youth perspectives on the role of social media in climate action","authors":"Grace Arnot , Hannah Pitt , Simone McCarthy , Chloe Cordedda , Sarah Marko , Samantha L. Thomas","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>The climate crisis poses a significant public health threat to current and future generations. Limited research has examined young people’s perspectives about the role of social media for climate awareness, action, and policy change.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Qualitatively led online survey of <em>n</em>=500 young Australians (aged 15–24). Questions focused on the effectiveness of social media platforms in communicating the need for climate action, with TikTok videos used to prompt about appeal strategies and campaigns. Data were analysed using a reflexive approach to thematic analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Participants perceived that social media platforms were a powerful and inclusive communication mechanism for climate action. Social media had the ability to reach diverse audiences and connect young people globally. Limitations included influencing key decision makers and risks associated with misinformation and disinformation. Participants supported messages that highlighted the urgent need for action, trusted celebrity and youth voices, and practical information to engage in action.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Social media presents a powerful opportunity for engaging young people in discussions and decisions made about the climate crisis.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for public health</h3><p>The public health community should be guided by young people in developing a range of social media mechanisms to empower them to have a seat at the table in public health responses to climate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"48 1","pages":"Article 100111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052883/pdfft?md5=42ee38c3696a3f6625d2cd83be16c8fb&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052883-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032136","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}
Janet L. Fanslow , Brooklyn M. Mellar , Pauline J. Gulliver , Tracey K.D. McIntosh
{"title":"Ethnic-specific prevalence rates of intimate partner violence against women in New Zealand","authors":"Janet L. Fanslow , Brooklyn M. Mellar , Pauline J. Gulliver , Tracey K.D. McIntosh","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100105","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>This study presents age-standardised ethnic-specific prevalence rates of intimate partner violence against women in New Zealand, by physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, psychological intimate partner violence, controlling behaviours and economic abuse.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data are from 1,431 ever-partnered women in the representative and cross-sectional He Koiora Matapopore, the 2019 New Zealand Family Violence Study.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>High lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence is present across all ethnic groups in NZ, with over half of all women reporting any intimate partner violence (55.8%). Substantial ethnic disparities exist in intimate partner violence rates, with Māori women reporting the highest prevalence of intimate partner violence (64.6%), followed by NZ European women (61.6%).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Intimate partner violence prevention and intervention services are needed at the population-level, and services must be culturally responsive and attuned to the needs of communities that bear the greatest burden.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><p>Ethnic differences in intimate partner violence prevalence likely contribute to health disparities at the population-level, reinforcing calls for prevention and necessitating healthcare systems to be culturally informed and mobilised to address intimate partner violence as a priority health issue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100105"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052822/pdfft?md5=75d5b9fb4a265cbfd21c57d61bc231c5&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052822-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138484799","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}
Simone Pettigrew , Leon Booth , Tahnee McCausland , Kelly Kennington , Danica Keric
{"title":"Evaluation outcomes of a Western Australian campaign designed to reduce alcohol use in pregnancy","authors":"Simone Pettigrew , Leon Booth , Tahnee McCausland , Kelly Kennington , Danica Keric","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To assess (i) the effectiveness of a mass media campaign communicating the potential harms associated with consuming even small amounts of alcohol in pregnancy and (ii) changes in females’ intentions to abstain during pregnancy after campaign exposure.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Independent samples of ∼400 Western Australian adults (18-45 years) were recruited at two time points (before and after the ‘One Drink’ campaign) to complete online surveys. Attitudinal and behavioural intention outcomes were assessed at both time points. Descriptive analyses and generalised linear models were used to assess outcomes.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Three-quarters (76%) of the post-campaign sample members reported awareness of the campaign. In the descriptive analyses there were significant improvements in three of the seven attitudinal items. The regression models yielded significant increases in agreement that pregnant women should not drink alcohol (assessed among females and males) and intentions to abstain during pregnancy (assessed among females only).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The results indicate favourable understanding and behavioural intention effects from exposure to a campaign promoting alcohol abstinence during pregnancy.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for public health</h3><p>This study demonstrates that investment in campaigns warning about alcohol use in pregnancy is likely to be a worthwhile approach to reduce the burden of alcohol-related harms to individuals and society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100102"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052792/pdfft?md5=c1aa386e30c796e74abc1d8ae0ea49e3&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052792-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138294556","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}
Toni Shearing , Leda Sivak , Gloria Mejia , Nikki Clinch , Kim O’Donnell , Nari Sinclair , Jared Kartinyeri , Kelli Owen , Douglas Clinch Jr. , Kim Morey
{"title":"A pilot place-based renal dialysis model of care responding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander priorities in South Australia","authors":"Toni Shearing , Leda Sivak , Gloria Mejia , Nikki Clinch , Kim O’Donnell , Nari Sinclair , Jared Kartinyeri , Kelli Owen , Douglas Clinch Jr. , Kim Morey","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100107"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052846/pdfft?md5=5de9f04f0b4b3eb7d07c11e2e5797cad&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052846-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138549053","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}
Timothy A. Carey , Mikaela Cibich , Margaret Carey , Sonia Hines
{"title":"Meet us where we are: non-Indigenous young peoples’ ideas on how to reduce alcohol-related harm in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)","authors":"Timothy A. Carey , Mikaela Cibich , Margaret Carey , Sonia Hines","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>This research sought to understand the strategies young people in a remote central Australian town believed would reduce alcohol-related harms amongst their peers.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A total of 38 non-Indigenous residents of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), aged between 14 and 18 years, participated in focus groups at their school. Participants discussed strategies they thought would reduce alcohol-related harms among people their age. Data were analysed using thematic analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Participants suggested that young peoples’ drinking behaviour developed with peers. Through social learning in peer groups, drinking alcohol was perceived as fun and normal. Participants indicated a willingness to learn about strategies to stay safe around alcohol. Their ideas for doing so reflected their existing social methods of learning about alcohol: having comfortable conversations and storytelling with a small group of peers and a relatable role model.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Young residents of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) advised that alcohol-related harm reduction strategies would be most effective if focussed on safety, rather than abstinence, and applied social-learning strategies.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><p>Young people value their burgeoning self-determination. Youth health interventions must engage youth in intervention co-design and aim to assist young people to make safer decisions, rather than making decisions on their behalf.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100100"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052779/pdfft?md5=836baf9c6ee77761e51fb05fdb06019c&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052779-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138457507","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}
Chicky Clements , Christine Hoy , Louis Bin-Maarus , Sarah Morris , Ray Christophers
{"title":"Aboriginal peoples’ lived experience of household overcrowding in the Kimberley and implications for research reciprocity in COVID-19 recovery","authors":"Chicky Clements , Christine Hoy , Louis Bin-Maarus , Sarah Morris , Ray Christophers","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>Household overcrowding was identified early in the COVID-19 pandemic as a risk factor increasing transmission and worsening outcomes. Nirrumbuk Environmental Health and Services designed this project to deepen understanding of Aboriginal peoples’ experiences of overcrowding in social housing.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Our household survey explored overcrowding, capacity to respond to COVID-19 directives and the Canadian National Overcrowding Standard (CNOS).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>For 219 participating Aboriginal households, usual number of residents per household ranged from 1 to 14, increasing with short- and long-term visitors. 17.8% had occupants who themselves were on waiting lists for their own home. Nearly one-third of houses had three generations under one roof. 53.4% indicated isolation of COVID-19 cases as ‘extremely’ difficult. 33.8% indicated their community could not manage COVID-19 at scale. Overcrowding was defined by interpersonal dynamics or consequences such as plumbing blockages or conflict rather than the number or people or ratio of people to bedrooms. 64.8% welcomed CNOS to determine acceptable and healthy occupancy levels. Participants encouraged research about environmental health in Aboriginal hands.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Cultural obligations, poverty and social housing waitlist management impose extreme demand on remote housing. CNOS relevance was endorsed but tempered by lived experience.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><p>Aboriginal-led research is directly accountable to communities through reciprocity and kinship. Nirrumbuk has already modified service planning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100104"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052810/pdfft?md5=4989434f10db0c0b490364ad3637b407&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052810-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138549052","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}
Alexandra Chung , Judith Myers , Helen Skouteris , Kathryn Backholer
{"title":"Front-of-pack marketing on infant and toddler foods: Targeting children and their caregivers","authors":"Alexandra Chung , Judith Myers , Helen Skouteris , Kathryn Backholer","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To identify and quantify child- and caregiver-appeal on front-of-pack marketing on infant and toddler foods in the Australian food supply.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Content analysis of the presence and type of front-of-pack marketing techniques displayed on the front-of-pack of infant and toddler foods (for children aged up to 36 months) available in Australia’s two major supermarkets’ online stores.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Infant and toddler foods are promoted by up to 15 unique marketing techniques on the front-of-pack with an average of eight unique features per pack. A majority of food packages included marketing techniques targeting children, and all food packages included marketing techniques targeting caregivers, most commonly promoting health and nutrition.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Infant and toddler food packages are saturated with front-of-pack marketing features that target children and caregivers. To adequately protect young children’s diets from the harmful influence of food marketing, and to promote the development of optimal feeding behaviours, government-led controls of all marketing intended to influence children’s diets are required. In the context of marketing infant and toddler foods, this includes regulation of front-of-pack marketing techniques targeted to children and their caregivers.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><p>Comprehensive government-led food marketing controls are required to protect children’s diets from the harmful influence of marketing. The scope of these controls must include all unhealthy food marketing that children are exposed to and all other forms of unhealthy food marketing intended to influence children’s diets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100101"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052780/pdfft?md5=ec17177533f0d0da5d0e287e26a8d8c4&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052780-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138457578","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}
William A. Koon , Amy E. Peden , Jasmin C. Lawes , Robert W. Brander
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Mortality trends and the impact of exposure on Australian coastal drowning deaths, 2004–2021” [Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 47 (2023) 100034]","authors":"William A. Koon , Amy E. Peden , Jasmin C. Lawes , Robert W. Brander","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100125"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023053025/pdfft?md5=5de2f4a05490bbc50f9d32dc1ec6ab21&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023053025-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138839101","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}
Tilda N. Thomson , Rayiky Rupasinghe , Daneeta Hennessy , Marion Easton , Tony Stewart , Vanora Mulvenna
{"title":"Population vulnerability to heat: A case-crossover analysis of heat health alerts and hospital morbidity data in Victoria, Australia","authors":"Tilda N. Thomson , Rayiky Rupasinghe , Daneeta Hennessy , Marion Easton , Tony Stewart , Vanora Mulvenna","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>From 2010 to 2022, the Victorian Department of Health operated a heat health alert system. We explored whether changes to morbidity occurred during or directly after these alerts, and how this differed for certain population groups.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We used a space-time-stratified case-crossover design and conditional logistic regression to examine the associations between heat health alerts and heat-related and all-cause emergency department (ED) presentations and hospital admissions at the state-wide level, with models created for the whole population and subgroups. Data were included for the warm season (November-March) from 2014 to 2021.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Increases occurred in heat-related ED presentations (OR 1.73, 95% CI: 1.53-1.96) and heat-related hospital admissions (OR 1.23, 95% CI: 1.16-1.30) on days on or after heat health alerts. Effect sizes were largest for those 65 years and older, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and those living in the most disadvantaged areas.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>We confirm that increases in morbidity occurred in Victoria during heat health alerts and describe which population groups are more likely to require healthcare in a hospital.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for Public Health</h3><p>These findings can inform responses before and during periods of extreme heat, data-driven adaptation strategies, and the development of heat health surveillance systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100092"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S132602002305269X/pdfft?md5=ba8539eceeab398e152108f20ef3f31b&pid=1-s2.0-S132602002305269X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49673796","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}
{"title":"Type and prevalence of nutrition-related claims on alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages","authors":"Bella Sträuli , Leon Booth , Nadia Laznik , Simone Pettigrew","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To examine the extent of nutrition-related claims on ready-to-drink (RTD) alcohol products to provide insights into the types and prevalence of claims across the category.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Product type, alcohol content, and presence/type of nutrition-related claims (n=491) information was collected, March-May 2022. Chi-square analyses with pairwise z-tests were used to identify differences in claim prevalence by product type. Spearman’s correlation was used to assess the relationship between alcohol content and number of claims.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Approximately half (52%) of RTDs displayed at least one claim, with the most common claims referring to naturalness (32%), sugar- (31%), and energy-content (32%). Hard seltzers displayed the most claims (96%, M=3.4 claims/product, SD=1.6). There was a moderate negative correlation between alcohol content and number of claims (r =-.43, p<.001).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Results show the extensive use of nutrition-related claims on RTDs in Australia, particularly for hard seltzers.</p></div><div><h3>Implications for public health</h3><p>Nutrition-related claims have the potential to mislead consumers about the healthiness of alcohol products and more stringent regulation of nutrition-related claims is needed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"47 6","pages":"Article 100106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020023052834/pdfft?md5=f51e3632ea0a8711aadaf20da1240fc0&pid=1-s2.0-S1326020023052834-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138469808","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}