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CURRENT RESEARCH

CURRENT RESEARCH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME V, NUMBER 2, 1981 [Much valuable health research information published by the 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). L. Young and I. Reynolds: Evaluation of Royal South Sydney Hospital Selected Psychiatric Admission Wards Vol. 1. Rehabilitation Centre: Migrant Health 1981. Workers: Evaluation of the Impact of a New (Division of Health Services Research, Health Type of Migrant Health Worker on Migrant Commission of N.S.W., Sydney). Health Costs. A comparison of psychiatric admission (Royal South Sydney Hospital Rehabilitation wards in psychiatric, general and private Centre, Sydney, 1980). hospitals. The researchers obtained An investigation of the effect of specifically information from patients, relatives and trained migrant health-workers on recovery medics, and determined the relationships of migrants injured in the work place. Neither between bed-day cost and outcome in each degree of recovery nor treatment time was setting. Despite the finding that the majority affected by presence/absence of such of patients expressed satisfaction with persons. The investigators conclude however hospital treatment, this had little effect on that access to health care was facilitated. The post-hospitalization status and needs either report includes a detailed section particularly social and economic (largely unchanged) or aimed at those considering the establishment psychiatric (after-care inadequate and of a similar program. readmission frequent]. Costs varied widely J.E. Dulley: Hospital Inpatient Statistics 1978 and were unrelated to satisfaction with New South Wales. treatment. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, N.S.W. Health Planning and Research Unit, Office, Sydney, 1981). Christchurch: Annual Report 1979-80. (P.O., Hospital morbidity data have been Box 1876, Christchurch, New Zealand). available for Tasmania, Western Australia This report explains the objectives of the and Queensland on a regular basis since the unii which was established to support the early 1970s. N.S.W. data for 1978 have just activities of planning groups in the North become available. A three-year delay in Canterbury area. Current research is outlined publication would not add to the usefulness and a list of papers and publications of such data should this persist as a regular appended. practice. Australian Foundation on Alcoholism and G. Palmer and Y. Jayawardena: Information Drug Dependence: Newslink, Occupational Systems for Hospital Bed Utilization Review Drug and Alcohol Programs. using New South Wales Hospital Inpatient (P.O., Box 477, Canberra, 2601). Statistics Report Number 1. A regular newsletter (superficial reporting (School of Health Administration, University rather than considered journalism or review) of N.S.W., Sydney, 1980). providing information on alcohol and drug A preliminary report on a system for use and abuse in Australianindustry. It notes monitoring use of hospital resources using other health and occupational issues from separation data from Hospital Inpatient time to time. It is up-tempo, conservative and Statistics Systein in 1977 [public hospitals frequently vacillates between a punitive and only). Bed use and its marked variability are a totally laissez fai're model of community examined for specific common procedures response to drug abuse. and diagnoses including cholecystlectomy VOLUME V, NUMBER 2, 1981 172 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES hysterectomy, tonsillectomy. Ways of motivate this 92 page review of information determining inappropriate use are available on health problems of migrant workers in Australian industry. It has been considered. prepared by the Centre for Multicultural Workers Health Centre: Work Hazards. Studies at University of Wollongong. An (27 John Street, Lidcombe, N.S.W., 2141). annotated bibliography, it underlines rather This is a periodical which disseminates than resolves the problem of lack of data. information about hazards in the work place Directions for research are suggested. to those directly exposed. Necessarily political in nature, it bridges the gap between J. Carter: States of Confusion: Australian research and action. The first issue (October Policies and the Elderley Confused. SWRC 1977) contained an excellent article on Reports and Proceedings No. 4. asbestos. The second issue began a series on (SWRC University of N.S.W., Sydney, 1981). "do-it-yourself" work place investigation. This report describes a research project commissioned by the SWRC. It addresses two Multilanguage articles are now published questions: What and where are the resources (issue No. 6, December 1980, on solvents). for old people with brain failure? and: What M. McAllister (ed.): SWRC Newsletter. policies sustain the availability and [SWRC, University of N.S.W.). placement of these resources? It finds The Social Welfare Research Centre, a evidence for its apt title. Commonwealth-funded University of N.S.W. unit, began operations in January 1980. Its D.J. Crack, W.A. McDougall, A.J. Spencer: functions include sponsorship and Dental Needs of the Handicapped and dissemination of social welfare research. The Homebound in the Melbourne Statistical newsletter provides a summary of recent, Division current, and future activity: research (Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, 1980). projects, publications and seminars. Some This report establishes that the dental publications of the unit are noted below. needs of around 44,000 handicapped persons in a metropolitan area are not being met M. Morrissey and A. Jakubowicz: Migrants within the current system, a major problem and Occupational Health A Report. SWRC being transport. The authors recommend the Reports and Proceedings No. 3. establishment of a domiciliary dental service (SWRC University of N.S.W., Sydney, 1980). and increased provision for the needs of. Lack of a coherent data base and the handicapped persons. relationship between ethnicity and class VOLUME V, NUMBER 2, 1981 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Wiley

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COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME V, NUMBER 2, 1981 [Much valuable health research information published by the 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). L. Young and I. Reynolds: Evaluation of Royal South Sydney Hospital Selected Psychiatric Admission Wards Vol. 1. Rehabilitation Centre: Migrant Health 1981. Workers: Evaluation of the Impact of a New (Division of Health Services Research, Health Type of Migrant Health Worker on Migrant Commission of N.S.W., Sydney). Health Costs. A comparison of psychiatric admission (Royal South Sydney Hospital Rehabilitation wards in psychiatric, general and private Centre, Sydney, 1980). hospitals. The researchers obtained An investigation of the effect of specifically information from patients, relatives and trained migrant health-workers on recovery medics, and determined the relationships of migrants injured in the work place. Neither between bed-day cost and outcome in each degree of recovery nor treatment time was setting. Despite the finding that the majority affected by presence/absence of such of patients expressed satisfaction with persons. The investigators conclude however hospital treatment, this had little effect on that access to health care was facilitated. The post-hospitalization status and needs either report includes a detailed section particularly social and economic (largely unchanged) or aimed at those considering the establishment psychiatric (after-care inadequate and of a similar program. readmission frequent]. Costs varied widely J.E. Dulley: Hospital Inpatient Statistics 1978 and were unrelated to satisfaction with New South Wales. treatment. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, N.S.W. Health Planning and Research Unit, Office, Sydney, 1981). Christchurch: Annual Report 1979-80. (P.O., Hospital morbidity data have been Box 1876, Christchurch, New Zealand). available for Tasmania, Western Australia This report explains the objectives of the and Queensland on a regular basis since the unii which was established to support the early 1970s. N.S.W. data for 1978 have just activities of planning groups in the North become available. A three-year delay in Canterbury area. Current research is outlined publication would not add to the usefulness and a list of papers and publications of such data should this persist as a regular appended. practice. Australian Foundation on Alcoholism and G. Palmer and Y. Jayawardena: Information Drug Dependence: Newslink, Occupational Systems for Hospital Bed Utilization Review Drug and Alcohol Programs. using New South Wales Hospital Inpatient (P.O., Box 477, Canberra, 2601). Statistics Report Number 1. A regular newsletter (superficial reporting (School of Health Administration, University rather than considered journalism or review) of N.S.W., Sydney, 1980). providing information on alcohol and drug A preliminary report on a system for use and abuse in Australianindustry. It notes monitoring use of hospital resources using other health and occupational issues from separation data from Hospital Inpatient time to time. It is up-tempo, conservative and Statistics Systein in 1977 [public hospitals frequently vacillates between a punitive and only). Bed use and its marked variability are a totally laissez fai're model of community examined for specific common procedures response to drug abuse. and diagnoses including cholecystlectomy VOLUME V, NUMBER 2, 1981 172 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES hysterectomy, tonsillectomy. Ways of motivate this 92 page review of information determining inappropriate use are available on health problems of migrant workers in Australian industry. It has been considered. prepared by the Centre for Multicultural Workers Health Centre: Work Hazards. Studies at University of Wollongong. An (27 John Street, Lidcombe, N.S.W., 2141). annotated bibliography, it underlines rather This is a periodical which disseminates than resolves the problem of lack of data. information about hazards in the work place Directions for research are suggested. to those directly exposed. Necessarily political in nature, it bridges the gap between J. Carter: States of Confusion: Australian research and action. The first issue (October Policies and the Elderley Confused. SWRC 1977) contained an excellent article on Reports and Proceedings No. 4. asbestos. The second issue began a series on (SWRC University of N.S.W., Sydney, 1981). "do-it-yourself" work place investigation. This report describes a research project commissioned by the SWRC. It addresses two Multilanguage articles are now published questions: What and where are the resources (issue No. 6, December 1980, on solvents). for old people with brain failure? and: What M. McAllister (ed.): SWRC Newsletter. policies sustain the availability and [SWRC, University of N.S.W.). placement of these resources? It finds The Social Welfare Research Centre, a evidence for its apt title. Commonwealth-funded University of N.S.W. unit, began operations in January 1980. Its D.J. Crack, W.A. McDougall, A.J. Spencer: functions include sponsorship and Dental Needs of the Handicapped and dissemination of social welfare research. The Homebound in the Melbourne Statistical newsletter provides a summary of recent, Division current, and future activity: research (Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, 1980). projects, publications and seminars. Some This report establishes that the dental publications of the unit are noted below. needs of around 44,000 handicapped persons in a metropolitan area are not being met M. Morrissey and A. Jakubowicz: Migrants within the current system, a major problem and Occupational Health A Report. SWRC being transport. The authors recommend the Reports and Proceedings No. 3. establishment of a domiciliary dental service (SWRC University of N.S.W., Sydney, 1980). and increased provision for the needs of. Lack of a coherent data base and the handicapped persons. relationship between ethnicity and class VOLUME V, NUMBER 2, 1981 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES

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