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CURRENT RESEARCH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1, 1982 [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). Selecki BR, Ring IT, Simpson DA, Perinatal Mortality Sub-cammittee: First Vanderfield GK, Sewell MF Injuries to the Annual Report Relating to Perinatal Deaths head, spine, and peripheral nerves. 1979. (South Australian Health Commission Epidemiology of neurotrauma in New South undated). Walee, South Australia and the Australian The report details the 258 perinatal deaths Capital Territory, 1977. [Neurological that occurred in 1979 by cause, age, sex, Society of Australasia undated). maternal factors etcetera. Classification is In two volumes, (the Report and the both by ICD and Aberdeen Systems. Summary of Findings) this study Prematurity, intrauterine anoxia, and investigated the epidemiology of mortality congenital anomalies accounted for more and morbidity resulting from injuries to the than 80% of deaths. The number of avoidable nervous system (mostly traffic crashes) deaths leads the committee to recommend largely in New South Wales, in 1977. Cranio- greater monitoring in late pregnancy and cerebral and spinal injuries are the leading labour. causes of death in age group 0-44 years and Krupinski J: Admissions, Discharges and account for about half the deaths in the 15-24 Deaths 1977-78. Statistical Bulletin No. 14. year age group. [malelfemale ratio is 3:l). [Mental Health Research Institute, Health The New South Wales rateof death from head Commission of Victoria 1980). injury (1977) was 25 per los vs 9 per lo6 for This document provides data on patient United KinBdom (1976). In about one-third of numbers in Victorian psychiatric facilities. all deaths blood alcohol was greater than 0.08%. Recommendations are made regarding Alcoholism in males and schizophrenia in prevention and initial care particularly the females are the main causes of admission. integration of first aid and accident There is evidence of a decline in residents in emergency services. psychiatric institutions but little change in the number of first admissions or persons Dougan LE, Matthews MLV, Armstrong BK: treated. Leukaemia and allied disorders in Western Australian Department of Health: Aboriginal Australia, Diagnostic incidence 1980-89. Health. Bulletin No. 1: Aboriginal vital (Leukaemia and Allied Disorders Committee, statistics; an analysis of trends. (Canberra Cancer Council of Western Australia 1980). undated). This is a report from the population based This document represents a progress report registry of neoplastic disorders of bone at the halfway mark of the National Plan for marrow and lymph tissue. It covers all Aboriginal Health first adopted in 1973. Trends in crude birth and death rates, and in patients diagnosed in Western Australia in a infant and foetal mortality rate are described. ten year period - a total of 1185 cases. Data have been collated from a variety of National Perinatal Statistics Unit: sources, and are sometimes not comparable. Congenital Malformations Monitoring If the data are accepted as accurate, there is Report No. 1, January - March; No. 2, April little prospect of lowering Aboriginal - June; No. 3, July - September, 1981. mortality rates to those of the white (University of Sydney, 1981). community by 1984. The first quarterly reports contain data Salmond CE: Data editing: methods of quality from New South Wales, Queensland, South control. Blue Book Series 11 (Management Australia and Tasmania. Victoria and Services and Research Unit, New Zealand Australian Capital Territory will be included Department of Health 1981). from 1982. As with all registries, its value to researchers and policy makers will increase Techniques of editing survey and experimental data in order to eliminate error over time. Reports will be quarterly and are usually passed by word of mouth or annual. VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1,1982 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES Wood TJ, Hughes E: An evaluation of the cost reinvented many times. This handbook effectiveness of surgical and related hospital details some ways of avoiding error and of services provided to patients at the Monash finding and correcting error in data sets. Department of Surgery. [Alfred Hospital, Simon Chapman: Understanding cigarette Victoria 1981). advertising - A new approach to anti- The cost of services, provided to patients of smoking education. [Department of one surgeon in a private and a public hospital Preventive and Social Medicine, were estimated by comparing “like” patients Commonwealth Institute of Health, Sydney. in a number of categories. Patients were Health Services Research and Teaching questioned as to their perceptions of aspects Paper No. 6. 1981). of their care. The authors argue that it is This study tested the hypothesis that possible to develop systems which accurately education about the mechanisms and appeals estimate costs in public hospitals and that of cigarette advertising would reduce such systems would increase awareness of smoking in school children. An assessment of those [largely medical practitioners) who how advertisements were recalled was generate costs in hospitals. The report is in 2 followed by evaluation of an educational volumes and available also in abridged form. intervention. After 8 months prevalence of Ducket SJ, Scarf CG, Schmeide AM, Weaver smoking was lower in the intervention vs the CJ: The organization of medical staff in control group. Recommendations regarding Australian hospitals. Report to the future use include the suggestion that the Commonwealth Department of Health. educational unit form a part of a wider health [School of Health Administration, University education program. of New South Wales undated). Howell RH, Perkins RJ: The Wellington In order to study the internal organization Hospital Board Corporate Planning Process of hospitals, a Medical Administrative [Department of Health, New Zealand, Teaching and Research Advisory Group was Occasional Paper No. 13 undated). established. Information on 92 hospitals in 5 A Corporate Planning Unit was established states was collected in order to describe and in Wellington in order to assist the Hospital analyse staffing structures and recommend Board in planning, in policy, in running organization changes. The second phase services, and in administration. This unit involved interviewing senior staff members dealt initially with some specific planning of hospitals. Matters investigated included issues and more recently has established a the role of staff in policy making, role in the provision of hospital and health relationships between medical practitioners services designed “to meet health needs in the and Universities, rdationships between area served”. The corporate planning model visiting staff and the Board, and methods of described is the vehicle for this task. Some appointing staff. Rural, suburban and differences with other resource planning teaching hospitals were studied. strategies are described. Biro G, Rob M: Report of the second King BE, Fletcher MP: The work-life of computerized survey of the Accident and qualified nurses in one metropolitan hospital. Emergency Department, The Ryde Hospital, A pilot project. (New Zealand Department of Sydney 16-22 October lS80. [New South Health Special Report No. 57 1980). Wales Health Commission, Sydney 1981). A pilot project designed to test an approach Designed to demonstrate to other workers to data collection on the structure of the the range of information that can be produced nursing work force in New Zealand is from short term surveys, this report details described. The purpose was to produce a the activity of an Accident and Emergency strategy which could be generalized to other Department over one week. Data are nursing agencies and hospitals, which could presented on workload of the department, generate data appropriate to management demographic characteristics of patients, and planning, and which would allow procedures undertaken, services supplied, updating of data in future. diagnosis and referral. The system entails COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1,1982 65 samples, community and institutional, the initial recording, card-punching and methods of data collection, the prevalence of computer analysis and can be modified to disability services in institutions and the assess the activity of other hospital community. A series of specific policy departments. recommendations is presented. McCallum I, Davison A, Hobbs MST: A study Krupinski J, Mackenzie A, Banchevska R: The of the cost of non-urgent primary care in hospital emergency departments. History and Achievements of the Mental Health Research Ilutitute 1956-1@81 (Health (Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Western Australia undated). Commission of Victoria, 1981). The cost of non-urgent primary care, In a monagraph prepared to celebrate its 25th Anniversary, the Mental Health operationally defined, is assessed. Patients Research Institute of Victoria has assembled requiring such care accounted for 30-45% of patients (including outpatients) seen in a series of papers on its history and functions. Research areas documented include emergency departments of Perth hospitals. The costs are shown not to be greater than psychopharmacology, child and adolescent equivalent general practice costs. Policy psychiatry, mental retardation, forensic psychiatry, and alcohol and drug use. The implications of this finding are explored. volume contains information on past and Rienken J; de Lacey A, Salmond CE: present staff and a bibliography. Community Attitudes to Sickness and Health Stimulus and Response (New Zealand Davis M, McAllister M, Manning I: Diary of Department of Health Special Project No. 56 Social Legislation and Planning 1980. VOlS. 1-3 1979). [Institute of Applied Economic Research, University of Melbourne, Institute of Family The Porirua Community Health Project Studies, Melbourne, Social Welfare Research was designed to provide a data base for those Centre, University of New South Wales interestedin health and health service issues. 1981). Vol. 1 (JR, AdeL, CES) describes Porirua and the methods of data collection. Descriptive This publication summarizes the changes statistical data are presented in Vol. 2 [CES, in legislation and administration made in the JR, AdeL) and attitudes of users and general area of social welfare by the Commonwealth community to health and services are Government in 1980. It is a sequel to earlier explored in Vol. 3 (AdeL, JR, CES). The data similar documents. generated are similar to those available for Commonwealth Department of Health: Needs Australia from the ABS Study - Australian of Adolescents [Canberra 1981). Health Survey 1977-78. The National Youth Conference in 1979 Jack A, Dowland J: Physical disability. resolved inter alia, that the medical problems Results of a survey in the Wellington Hospital of adolescents be recognised and catered for Board Area. (New Zealand Department of in designated medical units. This report is the Health Special Project No. 59 1981). result of an investigation of that need. In order to plan services for the disabled in Current usually non-specific facilities which the Wellington Hospital Board Area, a study are available to adolescents are described. It of two thousand disabled people was is concluded that needs are sufficiently met. undertaken supported by a group of However, there are few utilization data organizatioris with interests in the welfare of available. 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COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1, 1982 [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). Selecki BR, Ring IT, Simpson DA, Perinatal Mortality Sub-cammittee: First Vanderfield GK, Sewell MF Injuries to the Annual Report Relating to Perinatal Deaths head, spine, and peripheral nerves. 1979. (South Australian Health Commission Epidemiology of neurotrauma in New South undated). Walee, South Australia and the Australian The report details the 258 perinatal deaths Capital Territory, 1977. [Neurological that occurred in 1979 by cause, age, sex, Society of Australasia undated). maternal factors etcetera. Classification is In two volumes, (the Report and the both by ICD and Aberdeen Systems. Summary of Findings) this study Prematurity, intrauterine anoxia, and investigated the epidemiology of mortality congenital anomalies accounted for more and morbidity resulting from injuries to the than 80% of deaths. The number of avoidable nervous system (mostly traffic crashes) deaths leads the committee to recommend largely in New South Wales, in 1977. Cranio- greater monitoring in late pregnancy and cerebral and spinal injuries are the leading labour. causes of death in age group 0-44 years and Krupinski J: Admissions, Discharges and account for about half the deaths in the 15-24 Deaths 1977-78. Statistical Bulletin No. 14. year age group. [malelfemale ratio is 3:l). [Mental Health Research Institute, Health The New South Wales rateof death from head Commission of Victoria 1980). injury (1977) was 25 per los vs 9 per lo6 for This document provides data on patient United KinBdom (1976). In about one-third of numbers in Victorian psychiatric facilities. all deaths blood alcohol was greater than 0.08%. Recommendations are made regarding Alcoholism in males and schizophrenia in prevention and initial care particularly the females are the main causes of admission. integration of first aid and accident There is evidence of a decline in residents in emergency services. psychiatric institutions but little change in the number of first admissions or persons Dougan LE, Matthews MLV, Armstrong BK: treated. Leukaemia and allied disorders in Western Australian Department of Health: Aboriginal Australia, Diagnostic incidence 1980-89. Health. Bulletin No. 1: Aboriginal vital (Leukaemia and Allied Disorders Committee, statistics; an analysis of trends. (Canberra Cancer Council of Western Australia 1980). undated). This is a report from the population based This document represents a progress report registry of neoplastic disorders of bone at the halfway mark of the National Plan for marrow and lymph tissue. It covers all Aboriginal Health first adopted in 1973. Trends in crude birth and death rates, and in patients diagnosed in Western Australia in a infant and foetal mortality rate are described. ten year period - a total of 1185 cases. Data have been collated from a variety of National Perinatal Statistics Unit: sources, and are sometimes not comparable. Congenital Malformations Monitoring If the data are accepted as accurate, there is Report No. 1, January - March; No. 2, April little prospect of lowering Aboriginal - June; No. 3, July - September, 1981. mortality rates to those of the white (University of Sydney, 1981). community by 1984. The first quarterly reports contain data Salmond CE: Data editing: methods of quality from New South Wales, Queensland, South control. Blue Book Series 11 (Management Australia and Tasmania. Victoria and Services and Research Unit, New Zealand Australian Capital Territory will be included Department of Health 1981). from 1982. As with all registries, its value to researchers and policy makers will increase Techniques of editing survey and experimental data in order to eliminate error over time. Reports will be quarterly and are usually passed by word of mouth or annual. VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1,1982 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES Wood TJ, Hughes E: An evaluation of the cost reinvented many times. This handbook effectiveness of surgical and related hospital details some ways of avoiding error and of services provided to patients at the Monash finding and correcting error in data sets. Department of Surgery. [Alfred Hospital, Simon Chapman: Understanding cigarette Victoria 1981). advertising - A new approach to anti- The cost of services, provided to patients of smoking education. [Department of one surgeon in a private and a public hospital Preventive and Social Medicine, were estimated by comparing “like” patients Commonwealth Institute of Health, Sydney. in a number of categories. Patients were Health Services Research and Teaching questioned as to their perceptions of aspects Paper No. 6. 1981). of their care. The authors argue that it is This study tested the hypothesis that possible to develop systems which accurately education about the mechanisms and appeals estimate costs in public hospitals and that of cigarette advertising would reduce such systems would increase awareness of smoking in school children. An assessment of those [largely medical practitioners) who how advertisements were recalled was generate costs in hospitals. The report is in 2 followed by evaluation of an educational volumes and available also in abridged form. intervention. After 8 months prevalence of Ducket SJ, Scarf CG, Schmeide AM, Weaver smoking was lower in the intervention vs the CJ: The organization of medical staff in control group. Recommendations regarding Australian hospitals. Report to the future use include the suggestion that the Commonwealth Department of Health. educational unit form a part of a wider health [School of Health Administration, University education program. of New South Wales undated). Howell RH, Perkins RJ: The Wellington In order to study the internal organization Hospital Board Corporate Planning Process of hospitals, a Medical Administrative [Department of Health, New Zealand, Teaching and Research Advisory Group was Occasional Paper No. 13 undated). established. Information on 92 hospitals in 5 A Corporate Planning Unit was established states was collected in order to describe and in Wellington in order to assist the Hospital analyse staffing structures and recommend Board in planning, in policy, in running organization changes. The second phase services, and in administration. This unit involved interviewing senior staff members dealt initially with some specific planning of hospitals. Matters investigated included issues and more recently has established a the role of staff in policy making, role in the provision of hospital and health relationships between medical practitioners services designed “to meet health needs in the and Universities, rdationships between area served”. The corporate planning model visiting staff and the Board, and methods of described is the vehicle for this task. Some appointing staff. Rural, suburban and differences with other resource planning teaching hospitals were studied. strategies are described. Biro G, Rob M: Report of the second King BE, Fletcher MP: The work-life of computerized survey of the Accident and qualified nurses in one metropolitan hospital. Emergency Department, The Ryde Hospital, A pilot project. (New Zealand Department of Sydney 16-22 October lS80. [New South Health Special Report No. 57 1980). Wales Health Commission, Sydney 1981). A pilot project designed to test an approach Designed to demonstrate to other workers to data collection on the structure of the the range of information that can be produced nursing work force in New Zealand is from short term surveys, this report details described. The purpose was to produce a the activity of an Accident and Emergency strategy which could be generalized to other Department over one week. Data are nursing agencies and hospitals, which could presented on workload of the department, generate data appropriate to management demographic characteristics of patients, and planning, and which would allow procedures undertaken, services supplied, updating of data in future. diagnosis and referral. The system entails COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1,1982 65 samples, community and institutional, the initial recording, card-punching and methods of data collection, the prevalence of computer analysis and can be modified to disability services in institutions and the assess the activity of other hospital community. A series of specific policy departments. recommendations is presented. McCallum I, Davison A, Hobbs MST: A study Krupinski J, Mackenzie A, Banchevska R: The of the cost of non-urgent primary care in hospital emergency departments. History and Achievements of the Mental Health Research Ilutitute 1956-1@81 (Health (Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Western Australia undated). Commission of Victoria, 1981). The cost of non-urgent primary care, In a monagraph prepared to celebrate its 25th Anniversary, the Mental Health operationally defined, is assessed. Patients Research Institute of Victoria has assembled requiring such care accounted for 30-45% of patients (including outpatients) seen in a series of papers on its history and functions. Research areas documented include emergency departments of Perth hospitals. The costs are shown not to be greater than psychopharmacology, child and adolescent equivalent general practice costs. Policy psychiatry, mental retardation, forensic psychiatry, and alcohol and drug use. The implications of this finding are explored. volume contains information on past and Rienken J; de Lacey A, Salmond CE: present staff and a bibliography. Community Attitudes to Sickness and Health Stimulus and Response (New Zealand Davis M, McAllister M, Manning I: Diary of Department of Health Special Project No. 56 Social Legislation and Planning 1980. VOlS. 1-3 1979). [Institute of Applied Economic Research, University of Melbourne, Institute of Family The Porirua Community Health Project Studies, Melbourne, Social Welfare Research was designed to provide a data base for those Centre, University of New South Wales interestedin health and health service issues. 1981). Vol. 1 (JR, AdeL, CES) describes Porirua and the methods of data collection. Descriptive This publication summarizes the changes statistical data are presented in Vol. 2 [CES, in legislation and administration made in the JR, AdeL) and attitudes of users and general area of social welfare by the Commonwealth community to health and services are Government in 1980. It is a sequel to earlier explored in Vol. 3 (AdeL, JR, CES). The data similar documents. generated are similar to those available for Commonwealth Department of Health: Needs Australia from the ABS Study - Australian of Adolescents [Canberra 1981). Health Survey 1977-78. The National Youth Conference in 1979 Jack A, Dowland J: Physical disability. resolved inter alia, that the medical problems Results of a survey in the Wellington Hospital of adolescents be recognised and catered for Board Area. (New Zealand Department of in designated medical units. This report is the Health Special Project No. 59 1981). result of an investigation of that need. In order to plan services for the disabled in Current usually non-specific facilities which the Wellington Hospital Board Area, a study are available to adolescents are described. It of two thousand disabled people was is concluded that needs are sufficiently met. undertaken supported by a group of However, there are few utilization data organizatioris with interests in the welfare of available. Recommendations include the the disabled. The report describes the study provision of a number of additional facilities. VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1,1982 COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES 60

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