In Issue 2 of Public Health Research & Practice, several papers look at conveying the value of prevention and promoting public health research and programs. Our guest editor is Professor Simon Chapman, AO, well known for his work in tobacco control, gun control and wind farms, and his interests in communication in public health.
Issue 2 contents
Editorial: Communicating public health messages
Sally Redman
Perspectives
Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: 10 pieces of advice to early career researchers and advocates
Simon Chapman, Guest Editor
Should we do battle with antivaccination activists?
Julie Leask
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia – the future is prevention
Elizabeth Elliott
Research
Social media campaigns that make a difference: what can public health learn from the corporate sector and other social change marketers?
Becky Freeman, Sofia Potente, Vanessa Rock, Jacqueline McIver
Manual versus automated coding of free-text medication data in the 45 and Up Study
Danijela Gnjidic, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Sarah Hilmer, Jim Basilakis, Andrea Shaffer, Fiona Blyth, Emily Banks
Reliability study of clinical electronic records with paper records in the NSW Public Oral Health Service
Angela Masoe, Anthony Blinkhorn, Kim Colyvas, Jane Taylor, Fiona Blinkhorn
Hepatitis C enhanced surveillance: results from a southeastern Sydney pilot program
Catherine Bateman-Steel, Elizabeth Smedley, Marlene Kong, Mark Ferson
In practice
Piloting proactive marketing to recruit disadvantaged adults to a community-wide obesity prevention program
Blythe O’Hara, Dianne Eggins, Philayrath Phongsavan, Andrew Milat, Adrian Bauman, John Wiggers
Health promotion ‘on steroids’: an approach to promoting rapid HIV testing in NSW
Nick Roberts, Jo Holden, Timothy Duck, Samara Kitchener
News & views
Plain packaging an “extraordinary success”
Anne Messenger
NSW pledges support for FASD
Anne Messenger
‘No jab, no pay’ recommendation raises concerns
Anne Messenger
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