Topics: Chronic disease
Health disparities and risk characteristics in women with chronic heart failure
Determinants of health disparities in women with chronic heart failure; and investigation of risk characteristics, hospital admission and health outcomes of older women with chronic heart failure
Strong case for shifting health spending to chronic disease prevention
A strong case can be made for increasing spending on the chronic disease prevention because it is cost effective – even if it means reallocating funding from other parts of the health system, a new report suggests. The report, Preventive health: How much does Australia spend and is it enough?, compares Australia’s spending on preventive health … Read more
Lifestyle influences on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
Lifestyle influences on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
Relationship between demographic lifestyle factors, asthma and hay fever
Relationship between demographic and lifestyle factors and asthma and hay fever in an older Australian population
Understanding chronic kidney disease in the community
CKD45 Study – A Community CKD (chronic kidney disease) cohort from the 45 and Up Study
Risk characteristics, hospitalisations and outcomes for patients with chronic disease
Risk characteristics, hospital admissions, and outcomes of patients with chronic diseases in NSW, 2005-2009
Physical activity among chronic disease populations
Factors associated with physical activity behaviour, prolonged sitting time and weight status among chronic disease populations in the 45 and Up Study Australia
Data backs workplace efforts to tackle chronic disease
An Analysis for Policy project that has revealed that lifestyle-related illnesses among workers cost governments hundreds of millions of dollars each year has demonstrated the potential value of programs to target chronic disease prevention in the workplace. Dr Bev Lloyd, manager of Get Healthy at Work at the NSW Office of Preventive Health, says the … Read more