Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Being Healthy, Staying Healthy. A project to develop language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills through health improvement topics
Published 2015These are two manuals from the "Being Healthy Staying Healthy: The Australian adult education-based Health Literacy Program", which were used as part of an adult education curriculum for adults with low literacy and numeracy.Open AccessOther -
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 -
Heuristics and biases in cardiovascular disease prevention: How can we improve communication about risk, benefits and harms?
Published 2018Objective Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines recommend medication based on the probability of a heart attack/stroke in the next 5–10 years. However, heuristics and biases make risk communication challenging ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding vaccine‐induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT)
Published 2022Vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) is a rare, but serious, syndrome characterised by thrombocytopenia, thrombosis, a markedly raised D-dimer and the presence of anti-platelet factor-4 (PF4) antibodies ...Article -
"Scary to get, more scary not to": COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers in Central Queensland, Australia, a cross-sectional survey.
Published 2022Background: Behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine acceptance among Australian healthcare workers (HCW) living and working in regional areas are not well studied. Understanding ...Article