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- Livingston, M, et al.
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Examining Australia's heaviest drinkers
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Ingår i: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health. - : Elsevier BV. - 1753-6405 .- 1326-0200. ; 43:5, s. 451-456
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- Malakellis, Mary, et al.
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School-based systems change for obesity prevention in adolescents : outcomes of the Australian Capital Territory "It's Your Move!'
- 2017
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Ingår i: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health. - : WILEY. - 1326-0200 .- 1753-6405. ; 41:5, s. 490-496
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: The Australian Capital Territory It's Your Move!' (ACT-IYM) was a three-year (2012-2014) systems intervention to prevent obesity among adolescents. Methods: The ACT-IYM project involved three intervention schools and three comparison schools and targeted secondary students aged 12-16 years. The intervention consisted of multiple initiatives at individual, community, and school policy level to support healthier nutrition and physical activity. Intervention school-specific objectives related to increasing active transport, increasing time spent physically active at school, and supporting mental wellbeing. Data were collected in 2012 and 2014 from 656 students. Anthropometric data were objectively measured and behavioural data self-reported. Results: Proportions of overweight or obesity were similar over time within the intervention (24.5% baseline and 22.8% follow-up) and comparison groups (31.8% baseline and 30.6% follow-up). Within schools, two of three the intervention schools showed a significant decrease in the prevalence of overweight and obesity (p<0.05). Conclusions: There was some evidence of effectiveness of the systems approach to preventing obesity among adolescents. Implications for public health: The incorporation of systems thinking has been touted as the next stage in obesity prevention and public health more broadly. These findings demonstrate that the use of systems methods can be effective on a small scale.
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- Mugavin, Janette, et al.
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Strategies associated with low-risk drinking : a population-based study
- 2018
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Ingår i: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health. - : Elsevier BV. - 1326-0200 .- 1753-6405. ; 42:3, s. 315-320
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: To examine the relative frequency of use of seven strategies to moderate drinking (SMD) among low-risk and risky drinkers.Methods: Cross-sectional data from the 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey was used. The analytical sample included 11,462 Australians aged 18-64 who had consumed alcohol in the previous year. Logistic regression was used.Results: Analyses indicated a curvilinear relationship between use of SMD and alcohol consumption. Across the seven SMD, constant use of a strategy, compared with never using a strategy, was associated with low-risk drinking. Never using a strategy, compared with using one rarely, was also associated with low-risk drinking. When used occasionally, strategies that implied less alcohol consumed per hour (e.g. refuse unwanted drinks) increased the likelihood of low-risk drinking, whereas less direct strategies (e.g. counting drinks) increased the likelihood of risky drinking.Conclusions: Adult Australians who drink at low levels use a range of strategies to moderate their alcohol consumption. Overall, consistent use of one or more SMD was associated with low-risk drinking patterns.Implications: Public health responses to risky drinking may be enhanced by promoting the consistent use of SMD as a way to reduce overall alcohol consumption.
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- Ogeil, Rowan P., et al.
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Alcohol and burden of disease in Australia : the challenge in assessing consumption
- 2015
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Ingår i: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health. - : Elsevier BV. - 1326-0200 .- 1753-6405. ; 39:2, s. 121-123
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- Objective: Alcohol consumption is one of the major avoidable risk factors for disease, illness and injury in the Australian community. Population health scientists and economists use estimates of alcohol consumption in burden of disease frameworks to estimate the impact of alcohol on disease, illness and injury. This article highlights challenges associated with estimating alcohol consumption in these models and provides a series of recommendations to improve estimates. Methods: Key challenges in measuring alcohol consumption at the population level are identified and discussed with respect to how they apply to burden of disease frameworks. Results: Methodological advances and limitations in the estimation of alcohol consumption are presented with respect to use of survey data, population distributions of alcohol consumption, consideration of patterns' of alcohol use including bingeing', and capping exposure. Key recommendations for overcoming these limitations are provided. Implications and conclusion: Alcohol-related burden has a significant impact on the health of the Australian population. Improving estimates of alcohol related consumption will enable more accurate estimates of this burden to be determined to inform future alcohol policy by legislators.
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- Tinghög, Gustav, 1979-, et al.
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Public health and where its focus should be
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Ingår i: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1326-0200 .- 1753-6405. ; 35:4, s. 317-317
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- Hofflander, Malin, et al.
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Framing the Implementation Process of Video Conferencing in Discharge Planning : According to Staff Experience
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Ingår i: Informatics for Health and Social Care. - : Informa Healthcare. - 1753-8157 .- 1753-8165. ; 41:2, s. 192-209
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- Challenges of improving discharge planning have been an area of concern for many years, including problems related to lack of time for professionals to participate. In a county in South East Sweden, video conferencing was implemented in discharge planning sessions to enable distance participation of the professionals. To examine the implementation process, interviews were conducted with the implementers, who were project leaders, discharge planning coordinators in the hospital, and in home-care. The interviews were analysed qualitatively, using directed content analysis with a deductive approach to a theoretical framework that was composed from theories about implementation processes to be suitable for the healthcare sector, consisting of the factors: implementation objects; implementation actions; actors; users; inner context and outer context. The results of this study are consistent with the framework but with the addition of a new dimension – time, i.e. time to prepare; time to understand; time to run through and time to reflect. It is suggested that implementation frameworks are useful when IT is introduced in healthcare. Framing the implementation process supports the exposure of factors and highlights relationships and states of dependence between those factors which may affect implementation.
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