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AbstractHealth‐related aspects of lifestyle were surveyed in a random sample of adult inpatients from a general hospital in Sydney. The results were compared with the results of the National Heart Foundation of Australia 1980 Risk Factor Prevalence Study. The results suggest that the lifestyle of male hospital patients in this sample was similar to that of males in the community; the most prevalent lifestyle risk factors being smoking, obesity and heavy alcohol consumption. The lifestyle of female patients was different from that of females in the community; high risk lifestyles were more prevalent in the hospital group. The difference was most pronounced in women under the age of 40, in whom smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol consumption and frequent use of analgesics were 2–3 times more common in hospital patients than in the community sample. Hospitals need to consider more closely the specific health promotion and educational needs of their own patient populati

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00455.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe article presents a set of norms for use with an instrument which appears promising in monitoring the quality of life of chronically ill patients; it is easy to use, can be used repeatedly without sensitization and has demonstrated reliability and validity.The norms were generated from a stratified random sample of urban Aucklanders and use of them with some illustrative examples suggests their utility in assessing the effects on the subjective well‐being of patients of treatment and hospitalization. It is suggested that the norms are probably useful in most populations in Australasi

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00456.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper demonstrates the use of the repertory grid technique to study general practitioner decision making concerning home or hospital care for patients suffering from suspected myocardial infarctions. The technique was used to analyse a general practitioner's place‐of‐care decisions regarding five patients treated by him. The methodology described here has wider application in the study of decision making in the health service, and is being used by the authors in a larger study of a random sample of general practitioners and their coronoary care decision making over a one year per

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00457.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

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AbstractA Smoke Free Day, modelled on the Great American Smokeout, was held in Perth, Western Australia on 10th November, 1982. Under the theme “Give It Away For A Day”, the day was promoted heavily on television and radio, in the press and in other ways. Some three months after the day, 93 per cent of subjects indicated their awareness of it and 56 per cent could recall the logo. An estimated 36.5 per cent of smokers tried to give up on the Day and 23.2 per cent succeeded; 2.3 per cent gave up and were still non‐smokers three months later. Among non‐smokers, 47.4 per cent encouraged a smoker to give up on the Day and 14.6 per cent considered that they had succeeded. A majority of both smokers (52.8 per cent) and non‐smokers (81.6 per cent) considered that the Smoke Free Day was a

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00458.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA nationwide Australian household survey of 5580 men and women, 16 years and over, was conducted in 1983 to determine smoking behaviour and related beliefs and intentions. Among males, 37 per cent were regular cigarette smokers (a significant drop from 40 per cent reported in 1980), and among females, 30 per cent were smokers (compared with 31 per cent in 1980). In the age group 16–24 more females than males smoke cigarettes and there was evidence of a net increase in smoking among females at about the age of 50. Male smokers had stronger intentions to give up than female smokers. The main advantages of giving up listed by ex‐smokers were health‐related and the main disadvantages were weight gain and irritability. Current smokers also listed advantages in giving up but they were more likely to list weight gain and irritability as disadvantages. Only 8 per cent of smokers listed their own doctor among the people who would be in favour of them giving up. More non‐smokers than smokers listed diseases caused by smoking and 25 per cent of smokers (versus 9 per cent of never smokers) believed no illnesses at all are caused by smoking. Among smokers, a highly significant positive relationship was found between the belief that one's own smoking could cause a fatal illness and the intention to

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00459.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn some areas of public policy where reform is sought the assumed advantages of emphasising expert and professional knowledge should be reconsidered. Other approaches to problem solving ‐ interaction and social learning ‐ may have much to offer and the important role played by ordinary knowledge should be examined. The medical lobby's support for the Western Australian Government's failed attempt to pass itsTobacco (Promotion and Sale) Billis examined as a case in point. That the lobby's emphasis on expert knowledge aimed mainly towards a parliamentary context may have been an important factor in the Bill's defeat. With the Bill's possible reintroduction into State Parliament consideration of other areas of knowledge, in addition to medical research, would enable reformers to exercise greater control over the political age

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00460.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00461.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00462.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00463.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1984.tb00464.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY