Public health research & practice
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Public Health Res Pract · Mar 2018
Violence against ambulance personnel: a retrospective cohort study of national data from Safe Work Australia.
Objectives and importance: Paramedics have high rates of occupational injury and fatality. The objective of this study is to describe their specific risks of violence-related injury.
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Public Health Res Pract · Mar 2018
Comparative StudyInsights from linking routinely collected data across Australian health jurisdictions: a case study of end-of-life health service use.
The jurisdictional nature of routinely collected health data in Australia has created challenges for linking data across state/territory and federal government boundaries. This has impeded understanding of the interplay between service use across hospital and community care. Our objective was to demonstrate the value-add of cross-jurisdictional data using a case study of health service use and the factors associated with healthcare use towards the end of life. ⋯ In our case study, we demonstrated the value-add of Commonwealth data for understanding the drivers of hospital services use, which has implications for service delivery and resource allocation. There is an abundance of routinely collected health data in Australia that can be used to describe whole-of-healthcare use for a broad range of issues.
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Public Health Res Pract · Mar 2018
Intergovernmental collaboration for the health and wellbeing of refugees settling in Australia.
As outlined in the Department of Immigration and Border Protection Annual report 2016-17, Australia granted 21 928 humanitarian visas in 2016-17, 13 760 of them offshore. This number will increase in future to a planned offshore program of 18 750 in 2018-19. The report notes that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ranks Australia third for the number of refugees resettled. ⋯ This article outlines how collaboration between like-minded national governments can improve premigration health screening through information sharing, collaborative learning and increased capability in countries of origin to not only screen for illness and disability, but to more effectively put measures in place to address these before, during and after arrival. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US have worked together for more than a decade on migration health screening policies to ensure better management of health needs and successful resettlement. A case study about the Syrian refugee cohort, which began arriving in Australia in late 2015, illustrates how intergovernmental collaboration can improve settlement.