Search Results - "Jorm, L. R"

Examining area-level variation in service organisation and delivery across the breadth of primary healthcare. Usefulness of measures constructed from routine data by Butler, D C, Jorm, L R, Larkins, S, Humphreys, J, Desborough, J, Korda, K J

“…Australia has a universal healthcare system, yet organisation and delivery of primary healthcare (PHC) services varies across local areas. Understanding the…”
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Prospective cohort study of body mass index and the risk of hospitalisation: findings from 246 361 participants in the 45 and Up Study by Korda, R J, Liu, B, Clements, M S, Bauman, A E, Jorm, L R, Bambrick, H J, Banks, E

“…Objective: To quantify the risk of hospital admission in relation to fine increments in body mass index (BMI). Design, setting and participants:…”
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Change in smoking status during two consecutive pregnancies: a population‐based cohort study by Tran, DT, Roberts, CL, Jorm, LR, Seeho, S, Havard, A

“…Objective To investigate changes in tobacco smoking in two consecutive pregnancies and factors associated with the change. Design Population‐based cohort…”
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Exploring disparities in acute myocardial infarction events between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians: Roles of age, gender, geography and area-level disadvantage by Randall, D.A., Jorm, L.R., Lujic, S., Eades, S.J., Churches, T.R., O’Loughlin, A.J., Leyland, A.H.

“…We investigated disparities in rates of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the 199 Statistical Local Areas…”
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Watching the Games: public health surveillance for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games by Jorm, L R, Thackway, S V, Churches, T R, Hills, M W

“…Study objective: To describe the development of the public health surveillance system for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games; document its major findings; and…”
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Chronic pain in Australia: a prevalence study by Blyth, Fiona M., March, Lyn M., Brnabic, Alan J.M., Jorm, Louisa R., Williamson, Margaret, Cousins, Michael J.

“…This study reports chronic pain prevalence in a randomly selected sample of the adult Australian population. Data were collected by Computer-Assisted Telephone…”
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Parity: A key measure of confounding in data-linkage studies of outcomes after medically assisted reproduction by Chambers, Georgina M, Venetis, Christos A, Jorm, Louisa R, Vajdic, Claire M

“…Parity is a potential confounder of the association between medically assisted reproduction (MAR) and health outcomes. This concept paper describes a…”
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Prospective cohort study of body mass index and the risk of hospitalisation: findings from 246361 participants in the 45 and Up Study by Korda, R J, Liu, B, Clements, M S, Bauman, A E, Jorm, L R, Bambrick, H J, Banks, E

“…To quantify the risk of hospital admission in relation to fine increments in body mass index (BMI). Population-based prospective cohort study of 246,361…”
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Estimating the burden of pertussis in young children on hospitals and emergency departments: a study using linked routinely collected data by McCALLUM, L. K., LIU, B., McINTYRE, P., JORM, L. R.

“…Potential underestimation of the health system burden of pertussis was investigated by linking administrative datasets including pertussis notifications,…”
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Monitoring acute diseases during the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Thackway, Sarah V, Delpech, Valerie C, Jorm, Louisa R, McAnulty, Jeremy M, Visotlna, Maria

“…The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games (the XXVII Olympiad) will be the biggest peacetime event ever held in Australia. During the Games, all public health decisions…”
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Foot‐propelled scooter injuries during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games period by Jorm, Louisa R, Thackway, Sarah V

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Loglinear models using capture—Recapture methods to estimate the size of a measles epidemic by McGilchrist, C.A., McDonnell, L.F., Jorm, L.R., Patel, M.S.

“…Cases of measles reported separately by doctors, hospitals, laboratories, and others are treated as separate captures and releases of the population of…”
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Legionellosis linked with a hotel car park – how many were infected? by Bell, J. C., Jorm, L. R., Williamson, M., Shaw, N. H., Kazandjian, D. L. J., Chiew, R., Capon, A. G.

“…An outbreak of legionellosis associated with a hotel in Sydney, Australia, and the subsequent epidemiological and environmental investigations are described…”
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Strangles in horse studs: incidence, risk factors and effect of vaccination by Jorm, L R

“…A questionnaire survey of 179 horse studs in New South Wales was conducted to estimate the incidence of strangles during 1985 to 1988, to identify risk factors…”
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Communicable disease outbreaks in long day care centres in western Sydney: occurrence and risk factors by Jorm, L R, Capon, A G

“…We surveyed the directors of all 92 long day care centres in western Sydney to document the occurrence of communicable disease outbreaks during 1992 and to…”
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An epidemiological study of an outbreak of Q fever in a secondary school by Jorm, L. R, Lightfoot, N. F, Morgan, K. L

“…Five cases of clinical Q fever were identified amongst students and staff of a Somerset secondary school between 23 October 1987 and 21 December 1987. Five…”
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Prospective study of diarrhoeal outbreaks in child long-daycare centres in western Sydney by Ferguson, J K, Jorm, L R, Allen, C D, Whitehead, P K, Gilbert, G L

“…To investigate outbreaks of diarrhoeal illness in children attending long-daycare centres (LDCs), to characterise parasitic, bacterial and viral isolates from…”
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Measles outbreak in western Sydney. Vaccine failure or failure to vaccinate? by McDonnell, L F, Jorm, L R, Patel, M S

“…To determine the effectiveness of measles vaccine during a measles outbreak, and to assess whether age at vaccination was a risk factor for measles vaccine…”
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Genetic structure of populations of beta-haemolytic Lancefield group C streptococci from horses and their association with disease by Jorm, L R, Love, D N, Bailey, G D, McKay, G M, Briscoe, D A

“…The genetic structure of beta-haemolytic Lancefield group C streptococci isolated from horses in Australia was examined by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis…”
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OP08Using Linked Administrative Data and Multilevel Modelling to Identify Targets for Interventions to Tackle Health Disparities by Jorm, L R, Randall, D A, Falster, M O, Leyland, A H

“…BackgroundLinked administrative data for whole populations, combined with multilevel modelling methods, offers a powerful approach to identifying targets for…”
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