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Addressing men's health policy concerns in Australia: what can be done?
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2007-10-10)There is a lack of consensus about what men's health constitutes in Australia. The absence of a widely accepted definition has been problematic for establishing state and national men's health policies. I consider that one ... -
Addressing nutrition and social connection through community gardening: A South Australian study
(Wiley, 2019-02-11)Background This research aimed to evaluate the benefits of the community gardening program called ‘‘Magic Harvest (MH)” with respect to its key elements: social interaction; gardening skills; and, healthier eating. The ... -
Agreement between pre-exercise screening questionnaires completed online versus face-to-face
(Public Library of Science, 2018-06-26)Objectives To investigate the levels of agreement between self-reported responses to the Adult Preexercise Screening System (APSS) questionnaire using online versus face-to-face (F2F) modalities. Design Convenience ... -
Alcohol Consumption Change of English, French and Chinese Speaking Immigrants in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada
(Springer-Verlag, 2015-04-03)Aim: The multicultural study aimed at examining alcohol consumption change or drinking change of English, French and Chinese speaking immigrants in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada, and identifying demographic factors that ... -
Assessing Viewing Pattern Consistency in Mammogram Readers
(Australian Computer Society, 2009)Breast cancer screening programs typically require very large volumes of x-ray images (mammograms) to be viewed by highly experienced human readers. The readers can recognise a wide range of different visible features ... -
Associations between quality of life and duration and frequency of physical activity and sedentary behaviour: Baseline findings from the WALK 2.0 randomised controlled trial
(Public Library of Science, 2017-06-29)While physical and mental health benefits of regular physical activity are well known, increasing evidence suggests that limiting sedentary behaviour is also important for health. Evidence shows associations of physical ... -
The background and development of quality of life and family quality of life: applying research, policy, and practice to individual and family living
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)This article introduces the concepts of quality of life and family quality of life and shows how they have developed in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities in terms of concepts and principles. The ... -
Characterizing Image Properties for Digital Mammograms
(Australian Computer Society, 2009)Adoption of computed radiology (CR) and direct radiology (DR) imaging for screening mammograms in many countries alongside digitally scanned film mammograms has resulted in a wide range of different intrinsic (physical) ... -
CJCheck Stage 1: development and testing of a checklist for reporting community juries – Delphi process and analysis of studies published in 1996–2015
(Wiley, 2016-10-05)Background Opportunities for community members to actively participate in policy development are increasing. Community/citizen's juries (CJs) are a deliberative democratic process aimed to illicit informed community ... -
Cloud-based Medical Image Collection Database with Automated Annotation
(IARIA, 2016)Typical medical image annotation systems use manual annotation or complex proprietary software such as computer-assisted-diagnosis. A more objective approach is required to achieve generalised Content Based Image Retrieval ... -
Clustering Multivariate Time Series Using Hidden Markov Models
(MDPI, 2014-03-06)In this paper we describe an algorithm for clustering multivariate time series with variables taking both categorical and continuous values. Time series of this type are frequent in health care, where they represent the ... -
Comparing Data Mining with Ensemble Classification of Breast Cancer Masses in Digital Mammograms
(AIH, 2012)Medical diagnosis sometimes involves detecting subtle indi-cations of a disease or condition amongst a background of diverse healthy individuals. The amount of information that is available for discover-ing such indications ... -
A conceptual framework for secure mobile health
(International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth, 2013)Mobile health is characterised by its diversity of applicability, in a multifaceted and multidisciplinary healthcare delivery continuum. In an environment of rapid change with the increasing development of mobile health, ... -
Constructing a Synthetic Longitudinal Health Dataset for Data Mining
(IARIA, 2012)The traditional approach to epidemiological research is to analyse data in an explicit statistical fashion, attempting to answer a question or test a hypothesis. However, increasing experience in the application of data ... -
Criterion validity of the activPALTM and ActiGraph for assessing children’s sitting and standing time in a school classroom setting
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background Few studies have investigated the accuracy of the ActiGraph (AG) GTX3 accelerometer for assessing children’s sitting and standing time. The activPAL (aP) has an inclinometer function that enables it to distinguish ... -
The cultural relations of water in remote South Australian towns
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)Water is an increasingly scarce resource and the decline in rainfall presupposes people and communities adapting to live in drier, and very different, social and environmental conditions. In rural and remote South Australia ... -
The cycle of student and staff wellbeing: Emotional labour and extension requests in Higher Education. A Practice Report
(Student Success, 2016-03-02)This paper suggests that the sociological theory of emotional labour is a useful way to interpret how teaching practices in Higher Education often involve the simultaneous management of both staff and student wellbeing. ... -
Dietary Change of English, French and Chinese Speaking Immigrants in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada
(SciMed Central, 2015-05-15)Objectives: The multicultural study aims at examining Dietary Change (Dietary Behaviour Change and Dietary Belief Change) of English, French and Chinese speaking immigrants in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada, and identifying ... -
e-Research Meets e-Health
(Australian Computer Society, 2008)This paper considers some key aspects of e-Research methodology and infrastructure which are relevant to e-Health, and identifies some promising areas in e-Health where these aspects could be used beneficially . -
The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis
(Elsevier, 2018-11-07)Involvement in voluntary associations is a key form of social capital and plays an especially important role following disaster as a venue for coordination and decision-making for the wider community. Yet, relatively little ...