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All drivers have to be prepared for driving with changed conditions, either intrinsic or external...
Background This study compares the formula milk advertisements that appeared in parenting magazines published in...
Objective: To determine differences in sun-protection behaviours, and incidence of sunburn, between Australian adolescent female...
Background: Good General Practice is essential for an effective health system. Good General Practice training...
This study was undertaken to determine the PDA functionalities for a problem-based learning (PBL) medical...
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"This paper examined whether work-to-family interference (WFI) and work-to-family enhancement (WFE) mediated the association between...
The Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula: Manufacturers' and Importers' Agreement prevents manufacturers and importers...
School break times provide a daily opportunity for children to be active; however, research indicates...
Background Numerous studies have shown that the majority of women overestimate both their own risk...
Objectives: To investigate occupational factors associated with sick leave over a 4-year period in Australian...
Although the advertising of infant and follow-on formula products in Australia is prohibited by the...
The aim of this study was to build on existing understanding of adolescent sun-related behavior...
Aims & rationale/Objectives Population ageing poses major challenges for health systems. Additionally, training future general...
The aims of this study were to measure the readability of Australian based informed consent...
Poor awareness of breast cancer symptoms has been associated with patient delay in seeking help;...
Introduction: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the sixth leading cause of cancer death in Australia and...
Communication in the media regarding a potential avian influenza epidemic can serve to accurately and...
A growing number of studies have identified chronic sleep restriction as a potential risk factor...
Previous research indicates that older patients may be less willing to consult general practice registrars...
Objectives: To investigate the relationship between sleep duration and obesity in older Australian adults. Method:...
This study utilised semi-structured interviews to investigate how women expecting a first baby perceived print...
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Leading medical experts have cautioned about the risk of inappropriate behavioural responses as a result...
The ageing population makes it imperative to provide appropriate training for general practice registrars (GPRs)...
Research on physical activity for cancer survivors suggests a relationship with improved quality of life....
Objective: This study investigates and provides comparative data on the relative contributions of multiple physical...
This systematic review identifies and critically evaluates instruments that have been developed to measure clinical...
Objective: To examine the nature of disease awareness advertising (DAA). Design: Therapeutic advertisements in six...
Background Research suggests that older patients may be reluctant to engage general practice registrars (GPRs)...
Introduction With the population ageing, it is imperative for training practices to provide GP registrars...
Variation in how informed consent comprehension tests have been developed may be largely due to...
The school environment has an essential role in encouraging children to exercise. This study explores...
Emerging evidence suggests that chronicsleeprestriction contributes to obesity. Targeting short sleep duration may therefore offer...
The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is widely used to assess subjective sleep quality in...
The Breast Health Surveys, conducted by the National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC) in 1996 and...
The avian influenza A (A/H5N1) virus has attracted the attention of governments and health organizations...
Background Evidence is growing on the benefit of physical activity to improve well-being following a...
The benefit of exercise for cancer patients is starting to become recognized. The purposes of...
The Workgroup on public education was brought together to formulate an international perspective on public...
BACKGROUND: Identifying environmental factors that can influence physical activity is a public health priority. We...
Both self-help print materials and telephone-assisted counseling have generally proved useful strategies to increase physical...
The objective of this study is to examine the impact of a clinical reminder generated...
Purpose: To describe the attitudes related to communication skills, confidence in using commnication skills, and...
The Sociobehavioural Cancer Research Network (SCRN) was established in 1994 by the National Cancer Institute...
The Canadian Cancer Society requested that the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation of...
Despite controversy about prostate cancer screening, administrative data show that the use of prostate specific...
The National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) conducted a survey of representatives of its stakeholder...
Carpaltunnelsyndrome is the entrapment neuropathy of the medign nerve at the wrist. It is the...
In a survey of 2,548 adolescents, 11.5 percent reported ever having had the human immunodeficiency...
Background. This article reports the results of the impact of aschool-based HIV prevention intervention on...
OBJECTIVES. This study examined the implications of annual screening mammography for cost and mortality in...
Family medicine has aspired to train residents and conduct research in settings that closely resemble...
Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women, with mammographic...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the patients and practices of family physicians in a national practice-based research...
Although progress has been made in providing cancer prevention and control services to the population,...
Presents a condensation from the September 1992 `The School Administrator.' Asserts that despite widespread media...
Because AIDS will probably remain a significant force, schools must revamp inadequate HIV prevention programs....
This study, involving 25 family practice residents and 2746 patients in a family practice residency...
This study of 3,318 outpatient visits evaluated the influence of the physician-assessed level of patient...
Total direct costs of the Women's Health Trial (WHT), alarge multicenter preventiontrial, were reduced by...
From a consecutive series of 3,847 headache patients, 1,331 patients who made first visits for...
The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) conducted an observational study of usual primary care of...
The National Cancer Institute has initiated a randomized trial to determine whether a low fat...
The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) was created to increase the knowledge of primary care....
Little is known about the accuracy of data reported in practice based primary care research....
Headache is a common symptom in primary care about which surprisingly little is known. Over...
This study compares the health belief, Fishbein/Ajzen, and PRECEDE models to predict changes in smoking,...
The nation's public schools can systematically promote the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for good...
While the medical care encounter is considered an ideal situation in which patients are encouraged...
In 1981, the Office of Health Information and Health Promotion of the U.S. Department of...
Investigators interested in conducting school health research face many important challenges. First, an appropriate research...
The history and evolution, during the past decade, of the national disease prevention and health...
The purposeful integration of school and community efforts indeed may be the critical element in...
Described are some of the national health related databases which are useful in conducting health...
Qualitative methods can play a significant role in both formative and summative evaluations. There are...
In this review we assess the recent developments in research and practice pertaining to health...
The effectiveness of health education is ultimately determined by whether it is implemented, and how...
Data were analyzed for a random sample of sixty-four juvenile participants who completed the program...
The School Health Curriculum Project(SHCP), initiated over a decade ago to provide a health education...
Since many students plan to utilize college health services, it is important that the services...
The Juvenile Intervention Program represents an attempt to intervene in the development of juvenile drug...
Therapeutic communities (TC's) have become a mainstay of the drug rehabilitation network, yet many important...
The underlying philosophical and practical problems encountered when designing drug education/prevention programs are reviewed. The...
Context: The ageing population requires training practices to provide appropriate training for future general practitioners...
Background: In Australia, where direct to consumer advertising of prescription medicines is prohibited, pharmaceutical companies...
Study background: Previous online survey-> 131 respondents -> interest and ability for private social network,...
Alcohol risks for older people transpose into considerable alcohol-related morbidity and mortality. The 2009 NHMRC...
Context: Older patients constitute an increasing proportion of the caseloads in general practice (GP) training...
The purpose of the current intervention was to target a defined segment of the adolescent...
The Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula: Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Agreement (MAIF) prevents manufacturers and...
In Australia, Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicine is prohibited; however pharmaceutical companies...
Marketing partnerships between non-profit organisations (NPOs) and industry generally bring favourable results for both parties...
Objectives The medical literature suggests that older patients may be reluctant to engage general practice...
The influenza A (H5N1) virus is currently the focus of the worlds attention and, while...
This paper presents the background to a large-scale collaborative project between researchers at the University...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in Australia. Women are faced...
This handbook provides assessment tools for systematic evaluation of health education programs in the field...