Browsing Sydney School of Public Health by publication year
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Very good punter-speak. How journalists frame the news on public health
Published 1995-01-01This is a monograph commissioned by NSW Health in 1995 to inform the "Smog Summit". It reports on interviews with 9 Sydney journalists. Each interview focused on five often inter-related issues: 1. News gathering routines ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Defining chronic conditions for primary care with ICPC-2
Published 2004Background: With the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions, there is need for a standardized definition of chronicity for use in research, to evaluate the population prevalence and general practice management of ...Open AccessArticle -
NSW Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (SPANS) 2004 - Summary Report
Published 2004-01-01Open AccessReport, Technical -
Creating Healthy Environments - a review of links between the physical enviornment, physical activity and obesity
Published 2005-10-01Open AccessReport, Technical -
Workplace projects: Recurrent Event Survival Analysis Models for Assessing Factors
Published 2006-01-01This thesis contains two workplace projects submitted as requirements for the master of biostatistics degree.Open Access -
The Weight of Time: Time influences on overweight and obesity in women
Published 2006-01-01We know that adults’ weight increases with age, at least until around the age of 55 years or older. Recent National Australian surveys show that men and women of all age groups were heavier in 2000 than in 1995 or 1990. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
The Weight of Time: Time influences on overweight and obesity in men
Published 2006-01-01We know that adults’ weight increases with age, at least until around the age of 55 years or older. Recent National Australian surveys show that men and women of all age groups were heavier in 2000 than in 1995 or 1990. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Mid-point evaluation of Prevention of Obesity in Children and Young People: NSW Government Action Plan 2003-2007
Published 2006-06-01Open AccessReport, Technical -
The Weight of Opinion - The early childhood sector's perceptions about childhood overweight and obesty
Published 2006-06-01Early childhood is a critical time in a child’s development when the foundations for good or poor eating habits and self-regulation of appetite are laid. Because long day care centres and preschools structure the daily ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Workplace Project Portfolio: Project 1 Design and Data Management, Project 2 Analysis and Interpretation
Published 2007-08-10Open AccessOther -
Australian Communications and Media Authority Children's Television Standards Review 2007
Published 2007-08-30Open AccessReport, Technical -
Use of randomised trials to decide when to monitor response to new treatment.
Published 2008Is monitoring initial response to treatment always helpful in clinical management of patients? Bell and colleagues have developed a framework for deciding whether surrogate outcomes should be used to monitor initial response ...Open AccessArticle -
Building solutions for prevneting childhood obesity. Overview module
Published 2008-01-01Open AccessReport, Technical -
Mixed models showed no need for initial response monitoring after starting antihypertensive therapy.
Published 2009The objective of this study was to demonstrate how mixed models may be used to estimate treatment effects, and inform decisions on the need for monitoring initial response. Mixed models were used to analyze data from ...Open AccessArticle -
Value of routine monitoring of bone mineral density after starting bisphosphonate treatment: secondary analysis of trial data.
Published 2009To assess the value of monitoring response to bisphosphonate treatment by means of measuring bone mineral density. In this paper we investigate the effects of alendronate on bone density at the individual level. We compare ...Open AccessArticle