Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Prospective Association between Socioeconomic Status and Falls among Community-Dwelling Older Men.
Published 2021Background Socioeconomic status (SES) has been suggested as a risk factor for falls but the few prospective studies to test this have had mixed results. We evaluated the prospective association between SES and falls in ...Open AccessArticle -
The Association between Home Ownership and the Health of Older Men: Cross‐Sectional Analysis of the Australian Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project.
Published 2021Objective To investigate the association between home ownership and health in older men. Methods Cross‐sectional analysis of 909 community‐dwelling Australian men (mean age: 81.3 ± 4.6) from the Concord Health and ...Open AccessArticle -
Move it AUS Participation Grant: A national evaluation report
Published 2021An evaluation of the nationally-funded Move It AUS Participation Grant Program, funding organisations to design programs to reduce inactivity across target populations in Australia. The purpose of the independent national ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Mendelian Randomization in Cardiovascular Research: Establishing Causality When There Are Unmeasured Confounders
Published 2021Mendelian randomization is an epidemiological approach to making causal inferences using observational data. It makes use of the natural randomization that occurs in the generation of an individual’s genetic makeup in a ...Article -
Should response rules be used to decide continued subsidy of very expensive drugs? A checklist for decision makers
Published 2010Response rules are increasingly used by the Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme (PBS) in Australia and the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the U.K. to limit continued subsidy of very expensive drugs to ...Article