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Background
Covid-19 related lockdowns in Victoria, Australia, have increased the time spent at home. It is not known how this increased exposure to injury hazards around the home have affected injury rates.
Aims
To provide an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on hospital-treated injury during the 2020 lockdown period in Victoria, compared to the...
Background
Workplace violence and aggression is an important occupational health and safety concern. It can occur in any industry but is most common in the health, aged care, disability, youth services, education, law enforcement, retail trade and food services, hospitality, security and cash-handling industries.
Aims
To provide an overview of wor...
Truck drivers are a vulnerable population due to the high number of workplace injuries and fatalities predominant in their occupation. In Australia, the road freight transportation industry has been identified as a national priority area in terms of creating preventative measures to improve the health and safety of its workers. With an environment...
To investigate the effectiveness of tai-chi in preventing falls among community-dwelling older people.
Multisite parallel group individually randomized controlled trial.
Melbourne, Australia.
Preclinically disabled community-dwelling people 70 + years (n = 503), without major medical conditions or moderate to severe cognitive impairment.
Sixty-minu...
Background Integration of falls prevention with promotion of independence for older people will enhance uptake of effective programs.
Objective To test the effect of tai-chi on both progression of disability and falls prevention in the elderly.
Methods Multi-site parallel group individually randomised controlled trial. Participants were pre-clinica...
Background Integration of falls prevention with promotion of independence for older people will enhance uptake of effective programmes.
Objective To test the effect of tai-chi on both progression of disability and falls prevention in the elderly.
Methods Multi-site parallel group individually randomised controlled trial. Participants were pre-clini...
Hospital emergency departments are common recruitment sites for injury studies. Yet recruitment method details, capture rates and response fractions are not consistently reported. As privacy legislation increasingly impinges on research activity, these parameters become even more important. The authors describe their experience with recruitment via...
To describe the motorcycle fleet and rider characteristics on Victorian farms.
Cross-sectional postal survey.
Victorian agricultural industries.
A total of 1382 randomly selected farmers in 2001.
Farm motorcycle characteristics, use and maintenance schedule; motorcycle rider characteristics, respondent demographics and property characteristics.
A t...
To examine trends in rates of firearm related deaths in Victoria, Australia, over 22 years in the context of legislative reform and describe and investigate impact measures to explain trends.
Mortality data were extracted from vital statistics for 1979-2000. Data on firearm related deaths that were unintentional deaths, assaults, suicides, and of u...
To quantify and describe medically treated sport and active recreation injuries in a defined region of the Latrobe Valley from 7 November 1994 to 6 November 1995.
A geographic target area was defined, restricted to the six postcodes that fell wholly within the catchment area of the Latrobe Regional Hospital. Data describing medically treated sport...
To evaluate the effects of a community based, all age, all injury prevention program, the Safe Living Program, on injury risk and injury rates.
A quasiexperimental population based evaluation using an intervention and comparison community design.
The intervention community (Shire of Bulla, n = 37,257) is an outer metropolitan area of Melbourne, Aus...
To analyze Australian dog bite injury data and make international comparisons; to review risk and protective factors relating to the dog, injured person, and environment; and to recommend action for prevention and research.
Australian dog bite injury data, complemented by detailed Victorian and regional data from routine health records and vital st...
Summary Three-quarters of Victorians reside in metropolitan areas, but represent only 70% of the injured population. In contrast, the 11% of Victorians that live in rural centres sustain 13% of injury deaths and admissions, and 21% of Emergency Department (ED) presentations. The remaining 13% of Victorians live in rural and remote areas, and compri...
Bunk beds have long been recognised as a potential source of injury to children. This study was undertaken to establish an evidence base for a proposed injury reduction program and to determine whether or not there is a case for a mandatory safety standard. Recent literature on bunk bed safety was reviewed to provide an overview of the injury issue...
A computer-assisted telephone interview survey was carried out in the City of Maryborough to determine the prevalence and sources of advice for self-reported skin conditions. Of the 443 adults contacted, 416 (94%) agreed to participate in the study. One hundred and fourteen people (27%) reported having one or more skin conditions over the past 2 we...
This study aimed to examine the associations between the frequency and severity of self-reported acne and age, gender, puberty and psychiatric symptoms in Victorian adolescents.
A sample of secondary schoolchildren in Victoria, Australia were surveyed using a computerized questionnaire. Developmental and psycho-social factors associated with acne w...
Acne is a common skin condition. No universally accepted standardized classification system for acne vulgaris exists, although there is a strong need for it. Thus, the clinical definition of acne has been unclear in many studies. The reported prevalence of acne varies from 35 to over 90% of adolescents at some stage. In some studies the prevalence...
