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.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.2024.100217
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.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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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100202
Wubet Worku Takele , Lachlan L. Dalli , Siew Lim , Jacqueline A. Boyle
Objective
To examine trends of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Australia by state/territory and country of birth.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was undertaken from 2016 to 2021 using data from the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) and Australian Bureau of Statistics. The trends were assessed using Average Annual Percentage Changes (AAPCs) and the Cochrane–Armitage test.
Results
Nationally, the age-standardised incidence of GDM was 9.3% (95%CI; 9.1–9.4) in 2016 and 15.7% (95%CI; 15.4–15.9) in 2021, representing AAPC of +10.9%. The highest increase was in the Northern Territory, from 6.7% (95%CI; 5.1–8.3) in 2016 to 19.2% (95%CI; 16.9–21.6) in 2021, AAPC=+24.6%. In Southeast Asian-born women, the incidence of GDM rose from 12.2% (95%CI; 11.7–12.7) in 2016 to 22.5% (95%CI; 21.9–23.2) in 2021 (p-trend<0.001).
Conclusions
The incidence of GDM has risen in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory and Victoria, as well as among those born in Southeast Asia and South and Central Asia.
Implications for public health
This increase in GDM incidence in Australia underscores the pressing need for location and culturally responsive GDM prevention interventions. The lack of information on some risk factors of GDM (e.g. high body mass index) in the NDSS registry requires further investigation.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100227
Luke Wolfenden , Terry Slevin
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100216
Samantha J. Carlson , Charlie Holland , Valerie Swift , Catherine Hughes , Peter Richmond , Hannah C. Moore
Objective
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of respiratory infection with a higher burden in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants and children. We conducted a pilot qualitative study identifying disease knowledge and willingness to immunise following the changing immunisation landscape for infant RSV in 2024.
Methods
Yarning groups were held with a convenience sample of parents/carers of Aboriginal children attending playgroup at a metropolitan Aboriginal Health Service in Western Australia. Data collected in the form of notes were thematically analysed.
Results
We heard from nine parents/carers over two yarns in March/April 2024. Level of RSV awareness largely depended on lived experience of an RSV infection with some participants only first hearing of RSV following announcement of the immunisation program. Most participants were willing to accept immunisation. There was a strong preference for information on disease and immunisation safety coming from a ‘trusted Aboriginal voice’, but the level of information varied.
Conclusions
This pilot study provides initial insights into community views of RSV disease and immunisation. More RSV disease awareness is needed in the Indigenous community.
Implications for Public Health
These findings will help inform current and future RSV immunisation programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
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