Increasing violence in Australian general practice is a public health issue. Med J Aust 2007; 187: 118-119.Rowe L, Kidd MR. Increasing violence in Australian general practice is a public health issue. Med J Aust 2007;2:118-9.Rowe L, Kidd M. Increasing violence in Australian general ...
However, only 2 percent of the government's budget for financial year 2019/20 has been allocated to preventative health. A group of experts on Thursday banded together to urge the government to take greater action on what they said was Australia's most serious public health issue. Terry Slevin...
• The national public health care system in Australia, known as Medicare, was established in 1984. This system is funded by an overall 1.5% income tax that is allocated for Medicare (with an extra 1% tax imposed on high-income earners who do not get their own private insurance). Moreov...
Health policy-makers in Australia face a broad range of entrenched (and in some cases, worsening) public health problems, as well as emerging issues that create challenges for the health system into the future. These include, inter alia: continuing poor Aboriginal health [1,2]; widening inequal...
The theme for this year's event was 'Obesity: Progress through partnerships', reflecting the need for health practitioners, academics and industry to work together to address the growing public health issue of obesity. There were over 63 poster presentations and 50 oral presentations in several ...
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Volume 95, Issue 2, March–April 2001, Pages 202Book reviewPublic health in Papua New Guinea 1870–1939: Margaret Spencer. Brisbane: Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, 1999. xiv+295pp. Price A...
With the rapid increase of e-cigarette or vaping use in adolescents, parents can provide unique perspectives to assist in addressing this issue. As research regarding parent experiences of adolescent vaping is generally limited, this study therefore expl
et al. Multimorbidity - not just an older person's issue. Results from an Australian biomedical study. BMC Public Health 10, 718 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-718 Download citation Received17 March 2010 Accepted22 November 2010 Published22 November 2010 DOIhttps://doi.org/...
et al. Multimorbidity - not just an older person's issue. Results from an Australian biomedical study. BMC Public Health 10, 718 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-718 Download citation Received17 March 2010 Accepted22 November 2010 Published22 November 2010 DOIhttps://doi.org/...
Recent Australian health care reform in all jurisdictions of government, have attempted to address the need to curtail the burden of chronic disease by adopting and or referring to a primary health care (PHC) approach. In this way, community health nurse