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Current Research COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME V. NUMBER3, 1981 (Much valuable health research information published by the various health commissions ond heolth departments and by other academic and administrotive units does not oppeor in hard-cover, standard publication form and therefore achieves a narrower audience thon it merits. Reports, handbooks and other material deserving notice should be forwarded to the Editors). Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive A.F. Connon: Obstetric Services. Assessment of Care: 5 Year Report 1976-1981. (Flinders the efficiency and effectiveness of obstetric Medical Centre, Repatriation General Hospital, services. (Final report to Deprtment of Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Canberra. Vols. 1 and 2). Adelaide, 1981). A study of availability and use of obstetric This report of Australia's only academic services in the Western Metropolitan regon of department of anaesthesia describes its structure Adelaide. It includes recommendations to the and functions over its first five years. Research Department of Health on the definition and aieas and publications are detailed. practice of obstetric services and on the recording of relevant statistics. National Research Institute for Gerontology and B.M. Margetts et al: Nutritional Intakes, Food Geriatric Medicine: Occasional Paper in Consumption Patterns and Anthropometry of Gerontology, Number 3 - Education in Ageing - Rural Western Australian Teenagers. (School of Issues and Approaches. (University of Melbourne/ Mount Royal Hospital, 198 I). Community Health, W.A.I.T. Perth, 1981). This monograph draws largely on the This study of 635 rural, mostly caucasian education session of the 1980 International children in Western Australia found nutritional Association of Gerontology (Asia and Oceania intakes to be similar to that of urban children. Lower body fat and greater muscle development in Region) Congress held in Melbourne. It these compared with urban children is tentatively demonstrates that education in aspects of thc attributed to exercise. The dietary instrument is ageing process in Australia is growing but notes appended. major deficiencies particularly in the area of sociology and social work education and research. R.J. Cameron: Australian Health Survey 1977- B. Mulligan, C. Lamb, R.D. Harris: A Study of 78. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, Behaviourally Disordered Persons in South 1981. Catalogue No. 4318-0). Australia. Problems of definition, management and placement. (Department of Primary Care and More properly called an Australian Illness Community Medicine, Flinders University, Survey, this document is the latest in the series Adelaide, I98 I. reporting the results. Reported diseases and symptoms were predominantly those of the In her book Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris respiratory, musculo-skeletal and nervous systems Lessing tells of the Ryans - an archetypal and those associated with emotional distress and multiproblem, multi-agency family. In this report, depression. Mulligan et a1 describe an even more difficult and less provided - for group: the behaviourally P.M. Tatchell: Measuring hospital output: A disordered who have never been part of or who review. Technical paper No. 2. (Health Research have run out of (in both senses) a social support Project, A.N.U., Canberra, 1980). system. This is the group that frequently blurs our nice distinctions between "sick" and "bad". General hospitals consume more than 40 The report, the result of a six week study, percent of Australian health expenditure. In order identifies some of the characteristics of the group to understand what particular resources are being and points up a lack of facilities for appropriate used and how, some measures of what hospitals responses to their needs. Illustrative case histories actually produce appears appropriate. This review are appended. of the literature concludes with some suggested Recommendations for a continuing working measures of productivity, output, and quality party with research and clearing house functions which may assist in health and health economics are made. It is suggested that consideration be planning in Amtralia. given to the establishment of specific facilities, residential and day care. VOLUME V, NUMBER 3, 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. NUMBER3, 1981 (Much valuable health research information published by the various health commissions ond heolth departments and by other academic and administrotive units does not oppeor in hard-cover, standard publication form and therefore achieves a narrower audience thon it merits. Reports, handbooks and other material deserving notice should be forwarded to the Editors). Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive A.F. Connon: Obstetric Services. Assessment of Care: 5 Year Report 1976-1981. (Flinders the efficiency and effectiveness of obstetric Medical Centre, Repatriation General Hospital, services. (Final report to Deprtment of Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Canberra. Vols. 1 and 2). Adelaide, 1981). A study of availability and use of obstetric This report of Australia's only academic services in the Western Metropolitan regon of department of anaesthesia describes its structure Adelaide. It includes recommendations to the and functions over its first five years. Research Department of Health on the definition and aieas and publications are detailed. practice of obstetric services and on the recording of relevant statistics. National Research Institute for Gerontology and B.M. Margetts et al: Nutritional Intakes, Food Geriatric Medicine: Occasional Paper in Consumption Patterns and Anthropometry of Gerontology, Number 3 - Education in Ageing - Rural Western Australian Teenagers. (School of Issues and Approaches. (University of Melbourne/ Mount Royal Hospital, 198 I). Community Health, W.A.I.T. Perth, 1981). This monograph draws largely on the This study of 635 rural, mostly caucasian education session of the 1980 International children in Western Australia found nutritional Association of Gerontology (Asia and Oceania intakes to be similar to that of urban children. Lower body fat and greater muscle development in Region) Congress held in Melbourne. It these compared with urban children is tentatively demonstrates that education in aspects of thc attributed to exercise. The dietary instrument is ageing process in Australia is growing but notes appended. major deficiencies particularly in the area of sociology and social work education and research. R.J. Cameron: Australian Health Survey 1977- B. Mulligan, C. Lamb, R.D. Harris: A Study of 78. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, Behaviourally Disordered Persons in South 1981. Catalogue No. 4318-0). Australia. Problems of definition, management and placement. (Department of Primary Care and More properly called an Australian Illness Community Medicine, Flinders University, Survey, this document is the latest in the series Adelaide, I98 I. reporting the results. Reported diseases and symptoms were predominantly those of the In her book Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris respiratory, musculo-skeletal and nervous systems Lessing tells of the Ryans - an archetypal and those associated with emotional distress and multiproblem, multi-agency family. In this report, depression. Mulligan et a1 describe an even more difficult and less provided - for group: the behaviourally P.M. Tatchell: Measuring hospital output: A disordered who have never been part of or who review. Technical paper No. 2. (Health Research have run out of (in both senses) a social support Project, A.N.U., Canberra, 1980). system. This is the group that frequently blurs our nice distinctions between "sick" and "bad". General hospitals consume more than 40 The report, the result of a six week study, percent of Australian health expenditure. In order identifies some of the characteristics of the group to understand what particular resources are being and points up a lack of facilities for appropriate used and how, some measures of what hospitals responses to their needs. Illustrative case histories actually produce appears appropriate. This review are appended. of the literature concludes with some suggested Recommendations for a continuing working measures of productivity, output, and quality party with research and clearing house functions which may assist in health and health economics are made. It is suggested that consideration be planning in Amtralia. given to the establishment of specific facilities, residential and day care. VOLUME V, NUMBER 3, 1981 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES

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