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Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Skin care, Skin lesions
Community responses (n=925, response rate=71%) of a series of eight photographs of pigmented skin lesions were compared against those of general practitioners (n=114, response rate=77%), considered to be the most relevant gold standard. The eight photographs included three melanomas, two...
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Smoking, Smoking cessation, Cigarette, tobacco
OBJECTIVE To compare two self-help smoking cessation booklets distributed to callers to a Quitline telephone service in Queensland (Australia).DESIGN Callers were randomised to receive either a structured 14-day quit programme (Time to quit) or another booklet that described four broad stages of...
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Cold weather, Living conditions, Housing, wellbeing
Community and voluntary sector contributors: Energy Action, Age Action, SVP, Irish Rural Link, Togher Social Club and Togher Retired Men's Club, Co. Wicklow Network for Older People, Older Women's Network, Age and Opportunity, ALONE, the Rural Transport Network (in particular Donegal and Cavan)....
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Self-help, Awareness, Sociodemographic variables
The impact of the timing of community surveys on some of the measures used in process evaluation.
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Child health, Adolescent health, Health status, monitoring
Abstract
The aim of the project was to develop a survey instrument to monitor relevant health status and health-related behaviors among secondary school students. The development of the instrument occurred in three main phases: collection of existing surveys, workshops with relevant health...
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Skin examination, Skin lesion
The aim of the study was to describe the appropriateness of patient-initiated skin examinations, and assess whether an awareness program leads to a greater proportion of inappropriate patient-initiated skin examinations. General practitioners (n = 27, response rate 71 per cent) from a regional town...
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Smoking cessation, Passive smoking, Pregnant Women, Pregnancy
hospitals that routinely provide effective smoking cessation programs for pregnant women. In Queensland, Australia, 70 publicly funded hospitals were matched on numbers of births and maternal socioeconomic status and randomly allocated to an awareness-only intervention group or a behaviorally based...
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Injury, Injury prevention, Emergency
Injury control is one of the four priorities of the current National Health Strategy. Injury control targets are an integral part of this strategy and these require the measurement of the incidence of selected injuries. The strategy encourages local community based injury prevention programs. These...
Publisher: Institute of Public Health
Subject: Melanoma, Skin lesion, Cancer
Queensland has the highest reported incidence of malignant melanoma in the world, and early detection offers the possibility of reducing the burden of this cancer in the short term. We report on a survey of 995 residents of the Gold Coast, Queensland, regarding behavioural aspects of the early...
