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Population vulnerability to heat: A case-crossover analysis of heat health alerts and hospital morbidity data in Victoria, Australia
CONCLUSIONS: 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.IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: These findings can inform responses before and during periods of extreme heat, data-driven adaptation strategies, and the development of heat health surveillance systems.PMID:37852815 | DOI:10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100092 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health)
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tilda N Thomson Rayiky Rupasinghe Daneeta Hennessy Marion Easton Tony Stewart Vanora Mulvenna Source Type: research

The enduring harm from permanent offshore processing arrangements in the Pacific Islands
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2023 Oct 10;47(6):100095. doi: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100095. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37826983 | DOI:10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100095 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health)
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kyli Hedrick Rohan Borschmann Source Type: research

Area-level geographic and socioeconomic factors and the local incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Queensland between 2020 and 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Queensland experienced its highest proportion of COVID-19 cases once domestic and international borders opened. However, geographic and socioeconomic factors may have still contributed to a higher incidence of COVID-19 cases across some Queensland areas.IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: Although Australia has moved from the emergency response phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to ensure ongoing prevention strategies target groups and areas that we have identified with the highest incidence.PMID:37820533 | DOI:10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100094 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health)
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Selina Ward Angela Cadavid Restrepo Lisa McHugh Source Type: research

Mapping pandemic responses in urban Indigenous Australia: Reflections on systems thinking and pandemic preparedness
CONCLUSIONS: Systems thinking provides a useful tool in identifying the complexities associated with navigating health challenges, but further research is needed to develop frameworks that work in conjunction with Indigenous Australian methodologies.IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: Indigenous voices and communities must lie central to health responses/policies for Indigenous peoples. When systems thinking is done by or in collaboration with stakeholders it provides a visual language that can help design public health policy. What can be ascertained is that their effectiveness is predicated on systems thinking's integration ...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bronwyn Fredericks Abraham Bradfield James Ward Sue McAvoy Shea Spierings Agnes Toth-Peter Troy Combo Source Type: research

Changing conversations about family violence in regional Western Australia: A primary prevention communication case study
CONCLUSION: The communications strategy increased awareness of the drivers of FDV among the members of the Leading Lights. In turn, this group produced media content that made visible each organisation's commitment to addressing the attitudes and behaviours that enable FDV.IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: Community collaborations need time, resourcing, and coordination to sustainably prompt changes in social norms that underpin violence.PMID:37801858 | DOI:10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100089 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health)
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Helen Fordham Heath Greville Monica Moran Dane Waters Sandra C Thompson Source Type: research

Dimensions of the diet-exercise relationship in later life: A qualitative study
CONCLUSIONS: Diet and physical activity are linked in complex ways, highlighting the need for multi-factorial interventions.IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: When developing communications strategies designed to encourage older people to both improve their diets and increase their physical activity, consideration could be given to leveraging existing perceived alignments between healthy eating and being active.PMID:37783034 | DOI:10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100090 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health)
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simone Pettigrew Michelle I Jongenelis Zenobia Talati Gael Myers Nina Sapountsis Source Type: research