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CURRENT RESEARCH

CURRENT RESEARCH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME vrrr, NUMBER^, 1984 (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 hardcover, 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). Kendig, H.L., Gibson, D.M., Rowland, D.T., Hugo, G. The Ageing of Ethnic Popuhtions in Hemer, J.M. Health Weflare and Fami& in Later Australia, with special reference to South Lue (Ageing and the Family Project, Research Australia (National Research Institute for School 01 Social Sciences, Australian National Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. Occasional University 1983) Paper in Gerontology No. 6, January 1984). This report presents the findings of a survey During the 1980’s, numbers of Australians carried out in Sydney in 1981, which included with non English-speaking backgrounds in the 1,050 elderly people living outside institutions. very old aged groups will increase greatly. This Information is presented on family structure, paper charts the recent growth of the aged health status, utilization of medical and para- population in Australia’s major ethnic groups and medical services, community care and informal indicates some likely future changes in these networks of support. The report examines also groups. The paper concentrates on the practical implications of the research, including demography and spatial distribution of the ethnic future directions for policy development. It is aged, with particular detail from South Australia, available from the New South Wales Council on and concludes with a brief discussion of some of the Ageing, 34 Argyle Place, Sydney, New South the social and economic implications of these Wales, 2000, at a cost of $5.00 (postage paid). trends . Mintoft, B., Guinlan, J., Dowland, J., Barrer, B. Mount Albert Centre for MentalHealth Care: a Plannhg and Assessment Exerche. Management The Epidemiology Review Panel of the Medical Services and Research Unit, Occasional Paper, Research Council of New Zealand. Series No. 23 (Department of Health, P.O. Box Epidemiological Research in New Z&and: 5013, Wellington, New Zealand 1983). future prospects. Special Report Series No. 9 (Medical Research Council, P.O. Box. 5541, The Mount Albert Centre for Mental Health Auckland, New Zealand, January 1984) Care began operation in Central Auckland in March 1978. This report is presented as a first step The Epidemiology Review Panel, consisting in the process of assessment and evaluation of the of Professor David Skegg, Dr Bruce Armstrong Centre’s work. It includes an account of its history, and Professor J.D.K. North, was established in and data on the population served by the Centre November 1982 to report on the Current state of and the services provided over the last five years. epidemiological research in New Zealand and to make recommendations for future developments. Flight, R. The Work of Public Health Nurses in The report from the Panel outlines work currently Northland Primary and Intermediate Schools. being done, the facilities and staff available at Management Services and Research Unit, present, an argument for the encouragement and Occasional Paper No. 24 (Department of Health, growth of epidemiology and detailed P.O. Box 5013, Wellington, New Zealand 1984) recommendations for training programmes and staffing in the future. The report also includes a Flight reports a survey of the workload of detailed proposed development of information Public Health nurses in schools in both rural and resources, and a description of seven areaS of urban areas of Northland, and the types of medical research which the Panel felt should have highest problems most commonly encountered. priority in future epidemiological research. COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 2 240 The aim of this Workshop was to examine the Julienne, A,, Smith, L., Thomson, N., Grey, A. "workforce planning process -how the workforce Summary of Aboriginal Mortality in New South is, and could be, planned". The report presents the Wales Country Regions, 1980-1 981. (Department main conclusions and recommendations agreed by of Health, New South Wales, Health Services participants at the Workshop, and a commentary Information Bulletin No. 2, 1983). on specific issues which were raised. The specific issues include the economic and political Since 1980 it has been possible in New South environment for planning, influence of health Wales to identify death amongst aboriginals from service organisations, health service occupations, the regular form of notification of deaths. This paper uses these notifications and other women in health services and the relation of education and training of health workers on information gathered by Aboriginal Health Units planning issues. in country regions of New South Wales to compare adjusted mortality rates in the aboriginal and total New South Wales populations. The findings are Child Weyare: current issues and future sadly familiar: neo-natal and stillbirth rates two directions. Jo Jarrah (ed) Social Welfare Research to three times that of the total State population, all Centre Reports and Proceedings No. 34. (Social causes mortality rates four to five times greater Welfare Research Centre, University of New than the average, and estimated life expectancies of South Wales P.O. Box 1, Kensington, N.S.W. the same order as those which prevailed for white 2033, July 1983). Australians about 100 years ago. The report also includes statistics on the principal causes of death, and some additional information on the impact of This is a collection of papers presented at a alcohol on aboriginal mortality. oneday seminar at the University of New South Wales in July, 1983. It includes papers on the Foetal Alcohol Syndrome: a Bibliography. The present complexity of child-care arrangements in Eflects of Drugs on Driving Performance: a Australia, the special problems of caring for severely handicapped children, issues to be faced in Bibliography. Bibliographies Nos. 2 and 3 (Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Unit, promoting the welfare of Aboriginal children, and Alcohol and Drug Addicts Treatment Board, options for future child welfare policy. 3/ 161 Greenhill Road, Parkside, South Australia, 5063). An information system for aboriginal health services. 1 Overview. Gavin Hart, David Roder These Bibliographies are parts of a series designd to provide reference materials for health South Australian Health Commission, Technical professionals and researchers working in the area Monograph series, No. 3 of 983. of alcohol and drugs. People who wish to be placed The authors were invited by the Aboriginal on the mailing list to receive these or future Health Organization to examine the available publications in the series should write to the Senior Project Officer of the Monitoring, Evaluation and statistics on the health of Aborigines in South Research Unit at the above address. Australia, and the means of collecting those statistics, with a view to planning and evaluating Report of the Health Services Manpower Planning Aboriginal health services. This report discusses Workshop, Rotorua, September 1982. the objectives, and general features of an Department of Health, Blue Book Series No. 18 information system for Aboriginal health services. (Management Services and Research Unit, It presents also detailed information on perinatal Department of Health, P.O. Box 5013, morbidity and mortality, and hospital admissions Wellington, New Zealand, 1984). amongst Aborogines in the State. VOLUME VIIl, NUMBER 2 24 I 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 vrrr, NUMBER^, 1984 (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 hardcover, 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). Kendig, H.L., Gibson, D.M., Rowland, D.T., Hugo, G. The Ageing of Ethnic Popuhtions in Hemer, J.M. Health Weflare and Fami& in Later Australia, with special reference to South Lue (Ageing and the Family Project, Research Australia (National Research Institute for School 01 Social Sciences, Australian National Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. Occasional University 1983) Paper in Gerontology No. 6, January 1984). This report presents the findings of a survey During the 1980’s, numbers of Australians carried out in Sydney in 1981, which included with non English-speaking backgrounds in the 1,050 elderly people living outside institutions. very old aged groups will increase greatly. This Information is presented on family structure, paper charts the recent growth of the aged health status, utilization of medical and para- population in Australia’s major ethnic groups and medical services, community care and informal indicates some likely future changes in these networks of support. The report examines also groups. The paper concentrates on the practical implications of the research, including demography and spatial distribution of the ethnic future directions for policy development. It is aged, with particular detail from South Australia, available from the New South Wales Council on and concludes with a brief discussion of some of the Ageing, 34 Argyle Place, Sydney, New South the social and economic implications of these Wales, 2000, at a cost of $5.00 (postage paid). trends . Mintoft, B., Guinlan, J., Dowland, J., Barrer, B. Mount Albert Centre for MentalHealth Care: a Plannhg and Assessment Exerche. Management The Epidemiology Review Panel of the Medical Services and Research Unit, Occasional Paper, Research Council of New Zealand. Series No. 23 (Department of Health, P.O. Box Epidemiological Research in New Z&and: 5013, Wellington, New Zealand 1983). future prospects. Special Report Series No. 9 (Medical Research Council, P.O. Box. 5541, The Mount Albert Centre for Mental Health Auckland, New Zealand, January 1984) Care began operation in Central Auckland in March 1978. This report is presented as a first step The Epidemiology Review Panel, consisting in the process of assessment and evaluation of the of Professor David Skegg, Dr Bruce Armstrong Centre’s work. It includes an account of its history, and Professor J.D.K. North, was established in and data on the population served by the Centre November 1982 to report on the Current state of and the services provided over the last five years. epidemiological research in New Zealand and to make recommendations for future developments. Flight, R. The Work of Public Health Nurses in The report from the Panel outlines work currently Northland Primary and Intermediate Schools. being done, the facilities and staff available at Management Services and Research Unit, present, an argument for the encouragement and Occasional Paper No. 24 (Department of Health, growth of epidemiology and detailed P.O. Box 5013, Wellington, New Zealand 1984) recommendations for training programmes and staffing in the future. The report also includes a Flight reports a survey of the workload of detailed proposed development of information Public Health nurses in schools in both rural and resources, and a description of seven areaS of urban areas of Northland, and the types of medical research which the Panel felt should have highest problems most commonly encountered. priority in future epidemiological research. COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 2 240 The aim of this Workshop was to examine the Julienne, A,, Smith, L., Thomson, N., Grey, A. "workforce planning process -how the workforce Summary of Aboriginal Mortality in New South is, and could be, planned". The report presents the Wales Country Regions, 1980-1 981. (Department main conclusions and recommendations agreed by of Health, New South Wales, Health Services participants at the Workshop, and a commentary Information Bulletin No. 2, 1983). on specific issues which were raised. The specific issues include the economic and political Since 1980 it has been possible in New South environment for planning, influence of health Wales to identify death amongst aboriginals from service organisations, health service occupations, the regular form of notification of deaths. This paper uses these notifications and other women in health services and the relation of education and training of health workers on information gathered by Aboriginal Health Units planning issues. in country regions of New South Wales to compare adjusted mortality rates in the aboriginal and total New South Wales populations. The findings are Child Weyare: current issues and future sadly familiar: neo-natal and stillbirth rates two directions. Jo Jarrah (ed) Social Welfare Research to three times that of the total State population, all Centre Reports and Proceedings No. 34. (Social causes mortality rates four to five times greater Welfare Research Centre, University of New than the average, and estimated life expectancies of South Wales P.O. Box 1, Kensington, N.S.W. the same order as those which prevailed for white 2033, July 1983). Australians about 100 years ago. The report also includes statistics on the principal causes of death, and some additional information on the impact of This is a collection of papers presented at a alcohol on aboriginal mortality. oneday seminar at the University of New South Wales in July, 1983. It includes papers on the Foetal Alcohol Syndrome: a Bibliography. The present complexity of child-care arrangements in Eflects of Drugs on Driving Performance: a Australia, the special problems of caring for severely handicapped children, issues to be faced in Bibliography. Bibliographies Nos. 2 and 3 (Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Unit, promoting the welfare of Aboriginal children, and Alcohol and Drug Addicts Treatment Board, options for future child welfare policy. 3/ 161 Greenhill Road, Parkside, South Australia, 5063). An information system for aboriginal health services. 1 Overview. Gavin Hart, David Roder These Bibliographies are parts of a series designd to provide reference materials for health South Australian Health Commission, Technical professionals and researchers working in the area Monograph series, No. 3 of 983. of alcohol and drugs. People who wish to be placed The authors were invited by the Aboriginal on the mailing list to receive these or future Health Organization to examine the available publications in the series should write to the Senior Project Officer of the Monitoring, Evaluation and statistics on the health of Aborigines in South Research Unit at the above address. Australia, and the means of collecting those statistics, with a view to planning and evaluating Report of the Health Services Manpower Planning Aboriginal health services. This report discusses Workshop, Rotorua, September 1982. the objectives, and general features of an Department of Health, Blue Book Series No. 18 information system for Aboriginal health services. (Management Services and Research Unit, It presents also detailed information on perinatal Department of Health, P.O. Box 5013, morbidity and mortality, and hospital admissions Wellington, New Zealand, 1984). amongst Aborogines in the State. VOLUME VIIl, NUMBER 2 24 I COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES

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