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CURRENT RESEARCH

CURRENT RESEARCH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME XI, NUMBER 3, 1987 (Much valuable health research information published by various health commissions and health departments and by other academic and administrative units does not appear in hard-cover, standard publication form and therefore achieves a narrower audience than it merits. Reports, handbooks and other material deserving notice should be forwarded to the Editors.) European Consumer Product Safety Association, illness are emphasised (!or example the data linking Prevention of Burns and Scalds. Proceedings of health status with income level) and intervention is Conference 27-28 November, 1986, Brussels. recommended at four levels: the individual, The papers presented at this Conference were organisational, community and societal. concerned almost exclusively with the problem of burns and scalds in Europe. However, many of the issues translate readily to the Australian and New Zealand context. A paper on the epidemiology of South Australian High Blood Pressure Project burns and scalds indicates how informative simple Group, Public and Environmental Health Division, descriptive statistics may be (an example, is the very South Australian Health Commission, G.P.O. Box large range of death rates within Europe: childhood 1313, Adelaide, 5001. deaths from burns are twenty times more common in What hypertensive patients don’t know about Portugal and Scotland than in Norway and hypertension Sweden). Other papers examine the relationship of research findings (for example, the flammability of This is the first report from a long-term study of fabrics) to safety standards, the process of regulating hypertension control, with emphasis on moderate product safety, and priority setting for injury and severe high blood pressure. One component of prevention programmes. A piece of arresting and the control programme involves the development of not inconsequential information: in 1983 out of 100 appropriate high blood pressure education materials Danes killed in home fires, 62 died after smoking in bed, and 59 were very drunk. which are of use to both the patient and the general practitioner. To explore patients’ knowledge of hypertension, and their views of educational materials from The Northcote Health Report, 2 Volumes: doctors, 47 individuals with hypertension were Community Health Priorities and Community enrolled in focus group discussions. Topics which Edition were explored included knowledge of lifestyle by Janet Taylor, Cavan Thornson and Meredith factors associated with hypertension, the risks Lun.rence following from uncontrolled high blood pressure, These companion volumes, one targeted at the the extent of information on hypertension received community and one at professional workers. report from their doctors, and ‘compliance’ with on a survey of the health needs of the population of instructions on medications. the Northcote Community Health Centre in It was reported that information from doctors Melbourne. They include recommendations for was provided in an ad hoc and unsystematic fashion, style and priority of service provision for the Health to become an active and seldom invited the patient Centre when it moves into its permanent and participant in his or her own treatment. Not expanded premises with an increased staff. Together surprisingly perhaps, there were serious gaps in these publications provide an excellent model for patients’ knowledge of hypertension, and 40 per cent community health needs assessment, combining as of the patients in the group had blood pressures in they do a mix of qualitative and quantitative the hypertensive range. More information can be research approaches. The approach is firmly within obtained from Mr. David Wilson at the above a social health model. Thus the social origins of address. CO VM UNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME XI. NUMBER 3. 1987 266 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Wiley

CURRENT RESEARCH

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COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME XI, NUMBER 3, 1987 (Much valuable health research information published by various health commissions and health departments and by other academic and administrative units does not appear in hard-cover, standard publication form and therefore achieves a narrower audience than it merits. Reports, handbooks and other material deserving notice should be forwarded to the Editors.) European Consumer Product Safety Association, illness are emphasised (!or example the data linking Prevention of Burns and Scalds. Proceedings of health status with income level) and intervention is Conference 27-28 November, 1986, Brussels. recommended at four levels: the individual, The papers presented at this Conference were organisational, community and societal. concerned almost exclusively with the problem of burns and scalds in Europe. However, many of the issues translate readily to the Australian and New Zealand context. A paper on the epidemiology of South Australian High Blood Pressure Project burns and scalds indicates how informative simple Group, Public and Environmental Health Division, descriptive statistics may be (an example, is the very South Australian Health Commission, G.P.O. Box large range of death rates within Europe: childhood 1313, Adelaide, 5001. deaths from burns are twenty times more common in What hypertensive patients don’t know about Portugal and Scotland than in Norway and hypertension Sweden). Other papers examine the relationship of research findings (for example, the flammability of This is the first report from a long-term study of fabrics) to safety standards, the process of regulating hypertension control, with emphasis on moderate product safety, and priority setting for injury and severe high blood pressure. One component of prevention programmes. A piece of arresting and the control programme involves the development of not inconsequential information: in 1983 out of 100 appropriate high blood pressure education materials Danes killed in home fires, 62 died after smoking in bed, and 59 were very drunk. which are of use to both the patient and the general practitioner. To explore patients’ knowledge of hypertension, and their views of educational materials from The Northcote Health Report, 2 Volumes: doctors, 47 individuals with hypertension were Community Health Priorities and Community enrolled in focus group discussions. Topics which Edition were explored included knowledge of lifestyle by Janet Taylor, Cavan Thornson and Meredith factors associated with hypertension, the risks Lun.rence following from uncontrolled high blood pressure, These companion volumes, one targeted at the the extent of information on hypertension received community and one at professional workers. report from their doctors, and ‘compliance’ with on a survey of the health needs of the population of instructions on medications. the Northcote Community Health Centre in It was reported that information from doctors Melbourne. They include recommendations for was provided in an ad hoc and unsystematic fashion, style and priority of service provision for the Health to become an active and seldom invited the patient Centre when it moves into its permanent and participant in his or her own treatment. Not expanded premises with an increased staff. Together surprisingly perhaps, there were serious gaps in these publications provide an excellent model for patients’ knowledge of hypertension, and 40 per cent community health needs assessment, combining as of the patients in the group had blood pressures in they do a mix of qualitative and quantitative the hypertensive range. More information can be research approaches. The approach is firmly within obtained from Mr. David Wilson at the above a social health model. Thus the social origins of address. CO VM UNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME XI. NUMBER 3. 1987 266

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