Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100228
Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo , Corey Moore , Vicki Giannopoulos , Hueiming Liu , Amber Tickle , Pejman Adily , Ferdinand C. Mukumbang , Emma Quinn , Michelle Cunich , Ilan Katz , Andrew Page , Susan Wolfenden , James Gillespie , Paul Haber , Andrew Wilson , Leena Gupta , John Eastwood , Carmen Huckel Schneider
Objective
To investigate the impact of contextual socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of residents on COVID-19 outcomes during public health measures.
Methods
Aggregated data from the NSW Notifiable Conditions Information Management System linked to Australian Census data, by periods of strict and relaxed measures, were used.
Results
During strict measures, residents of areas of lower socioeconomic status (SES) had a higher risk of infection, with the lowest areas having greater risk compared with the highest areas ((hazard ratio (HR)) 7.15, 95% confidence interval (CI) 6.24-8.19). The risk of infection was lower for those aged 40 and over and was higher for males (HR 1.34, 95% CI 1.27-1.40); those in living in areas with larger household sizes (HR 1.56, 95% CI 36-1.78); and individuals in areas with a large proportion of residents born in South Asia (HR 1.18; 95% CI 1.07-1.29), South East Asia (HR 1.20, 95% CI 1.07-1.36) and the Middle East and North Africa (HR 1.67, 95% CI 1.47-1.90). During relaxed restrictions, the impact of variables attenuated but remained significant.
Conclusions
Minorities, those residing in lower SES areas and those living in larger households had worse COVID-19 outcomes during strict public health measures.
Implications for Public Health
Decision-makers should tailor services to avoid inequities.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100221
Alexandra C. Manson , Rebecca K. Golley , Dimity C. Dutch , Brittany J. Johnson
Objective
Interest in national adoption of school-provided meals is growing across Australia; however, parent perspectives are not well understood. This study aimed to understand the most important features of a potential school-provided meal system to parents of primary school children in Australia.
Methods
Virtual Nominal Group Technique workshops with Australian caregivers of primary school-aged children were held to identify, discuss and prioritise features. Discussions were noted and collated collaboratively with participants, with quotes collected. Top voted features were scored using relative importance.
Results
Five workshops with 25 total participants identified 28 diverse features, with interest in a comprehensive, well-designed system. Priority features were nutrition (importance score 0.46), cost (0.42), stigma considerations (0.32), catering to dietary requirements (0.29) and sustainability and waste (0.25).
Conclusions
Findings demonstrated the diverse considerations for a parent-accepted school-provided meal. Prioritised features align with initiatives internationally and locally, indicating feasible strategies to inform an acceptable Australian school food transformation.
Implications for public health
Provision of universally available, accessible and nutritious meals aligns with parent values and creates opportunity for public health impact. Findings can be used to inform the design of school food programs, supported by implementation strategies used internationally and locally, conducive to optimum child and parent health outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100212
Edwina Mead , Chen-Chun Shu , Pooria Sarrami , Rona Macniven , Amy E. Peden
Objective
To quantify drowning rates and fatal to non-fatal drowning ratios on public holidays, school holidays, weekdays and long weekends in New South Wales from January 2010 to June 2022.
Methods
Using a linked administrative dataset comprising ambulance (paper-based and electronic records), emergency department presentations and death registry, rates of drowning and ratios of fatal to non-fatal drowning were calculated.
Results
Across 4,161 total drowning incidents, public holidays (14.21 incidents/100,000 person-years) and weekends (6.77 incidents/100,000 person-years) had higher population-normalised incident rates than regular weekdays (3.18 incidents/100,000 person-years). School holidays (8.58 incidents/100,000 person-years) recorded higher rates than non-school holiday days (3.46 incidents/100,000 person-years). New Year’s Day and Australia Day accounted for 4.7% of all incidents (n=197 incidents). Drowning during school holidays was higher than non-school holiday days across all seasons, aside from winter school holidays.
Conclusions
Drowning risk is higher on days typically associated with greater leisure time. This study adds to the growing literature identifying temporal variation in drowning risk and is the first to use linked data.
Implications for Public Health
Those tasked with supervising aquatic locations and the provision of water safety messaging should consider the targeted strategies for holidays and weekends such as extended patrols and media-based risk communication.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100218
Geoffrey K.P. Spurling , Deborah A. Askew , Noel E. Hayman , Philip J. Schluter
Objective
This study aimed to measure associations between protective factors associated with positive psychological outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living in an urban area.
Methods
Our primary outcome was the absence of psychological distress, reflecting a positive-outcome approach to analyse health assessment data, using modified Poisson regression, from a cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth aged 15 to 24 years attending an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health service (2016–2021).
Results
Health assessments from 710 participants were analysed, with 72.1% of young people found to not be experiencing depression. Exercise, sport, and absences of marijuana use, smoking cigarettes, difficulty getting a job, homelessness, trouble with the police and experience of violence were associated with an absence of depression.
Conclusions
Most young people were not experiencing depression. A positive-outcome approach provided evidence to support avenues to success which need to be developed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Implications for public health
Policy makers, clinicians and health services need to resource and maximise opportunities to access safe accommodation, participate in employment, exercise and play sport and to avoid marijuana, cigarettes, violence and trouble with the police.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100210
Robin Warren , Louise Young , Karen Carlisle , Ian Heslop , Beverley Glass
Objective
This study aimed to define a set of competencies for public health-related services and activities for pharmacists in Australia.
Methods
A modified Delphi technique of two rounds was used to gain consensus by public health and pharmacy professionals on a set of public health competency statements for Australian pharmacists.
Results
Delphi panellists agreed on the inclusion of 27 competency statements organised into three domains of health promotion and illness prevention, health protection and population health quality improvement. Competency statements concerning evaluation of services and reflective practice were revised to achieve agreement in the second Delphi round. Examples of practice were included to illustrate application of the competency to practice.
Conclusions
A set of competencies outlining requirements for pharmacists to bring a public health perspective to practice will assist engagement of the pharmacy profession with public health.
Implications for Public Health
As key providers of public health initiatives, it is important for health professionals, including pharmacists, to engage with public health. Identifying competencies required to deliver effective public health will raise awareness of the contribution of pharmacists to public health and inform their education and professional development.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100215
Simone Pettigrew , Asad Yusoff , Bella Sträuli , Leon Booth , Paula O’Brien , Jacquie Bowden , Aimee Brownbill , Julia Stafford , Michelle I Jongenelis , Tazman Davies , Tanya Chikritzhs , Tim Stockwell , Fraser Taylor , Alexandra Jones
Objective
Regulations to restrict alcohol promotion and requirements for mandatory display of information about health risks associated with alcohol use have been minimal and hard-won in Australia. This study (i) outlines an approach to monitoring alcohol industry use of health messages on alcohol products and (ii) reports prevalence and nature of government-mandated health-related information and voluntary health messages on alcohol products.
Methods
Images of 5,923 alcohol products sold in four large alcohol stores in Sydney were captured. Data were collected in-store and via web-scraping. Label content was extracted from the images.
Results
There was high compliance (97%-99%) with government-mandated requirements other than the pregnancy warning label (63%). Presence of voluntary health-related messages was common (65%), but typically present in the form of DrinkWise (an industry-led social aspects/public relations organisation) statements that are unlikely to be effective.
Conclusions
This study provides a unique and systematic approach to examining alcohol industry compliance with government-mandated on-product information requirements and voluntary inclusion of other health-related messages.
Implications for Public Health
The results demonstrate the need for ongoing monitoring to enforce alcohol industry compliance with Australia’s existing and future labelling regulations and to assess the industry’s voluntary use of other forms of health messaging.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100217
Alix Hall , Sam McCrabb , Michael Tong , Adyya Gupta , Brianna Poirier , Lisa McHugh , Ye In (Jane) Hwang , Alex P. Metse , Linda Murray , Lisa Gaye Smithers , Summer May Finlay , Luke Wolfenden
{"title":"Welcoming the new ANZJPH editor-in-chief","authors":"Alix Hall , Sam McCrabb , Michael Tong , Adyya Gupta , Brianna Poirier , Lisa McHugh , Ye In (Jane) Hwang , Alex P. Metse , Linda Murray , Lisa Gaye Smithers , Summer May Finlay , Luke Wolfenden","doi":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100217","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8620,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"Article 100217"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142943425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100222
Sharon L. Campbell , Janice Wormworth , Donna Green , Nigel Goodman , Sotiris Vardoulakis , Fay H. Johnston , Amanda J. Wheeler
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100219
Alexandra Head , Megan S.C. Lim , Ana Orozco , Laura Dunstan , Amy Kirwan , Julie Hennegan
Objective
Governments have announced free menstrual product provision policies. Our research aimed to inform these initiatives by understanding menstrual product insecurity amongst marginalised groups and their recommendations for product provision.
Methods
We undertook in-depth interviews with participants experiencing menstrual product insecurity, who identified as belonging to one or more marginalised groups, alongside key informants working for organisations serving these populations. Groups included those on low income, people experiencing housing insecurity, people living with disabilities, multicultural groups, gender-diverse people, and young people. Qualitative content analysis was undertaken using a framework approach.
Results
Thirty participants and five key informants participated. Participant recommendations for service delivery emphasised convenience, product choice and prioritisation of those with the greatest need whilst preventing misuse. Participants also considered the balance between the privacy and visibility of delivery mechanisms and the opportunity to address other menstrual needs including education and stigma through product provision policies.
Conclusions
No single delivery approach best suits the needs of all people. Delivery mechanisms must consider how to provide participants’ recommended features.
Implications for Public Health
To best reduce menstrual product insecurity, governments should consider delivering products through multiple mechanisms. Co-development of policy implementation methods with intended beneficiaries, and thorough evaluation, will support uptake.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100206
E. Harwood , K. Taylor , K. Clark , P. Murray , J. Stephenson , K. Bolsewicz , J. Leask , K. Crooks
Objective
This study assessed the effectiveness of Aboriginal-led vaccine workshops to enhance knowledge, confidence and supportive conversations regarding scheduled and recommended vaccinations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Hunter New England, New South Wales, Australia.
Methods
We adapted and indigenised an existing vaccine conversation program. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people were recruited to workshops delivered either online or face to face.
Results
Seventy participants attended the workshops. Most reported high satisfaction with the workshop content and format, and most reported increased confidence in having vaccine conversations. Post-workshop yarns highlighted the positive impact on community knowledge and collaboration.
Conclusions
Aboriginal-informed and -led education enables and empowers service providers and community members to engage in supportive vaccine conversations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Implications for Public Health
These findings highlight the need for localised strategies to enhance vaccine understanding with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, as well as offering valuable insights to tailor immunisation programs and rollouts of future vaccines.
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