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AbstractThe School Dental Service provides regular dental care to 98 per cent of 5–13‐year‐old school children and 68 per cent of pre‐school children in New Zealand. Officially collected statistics are presented for the six main population areas showing:1the dental status of all 12‐ and 13‐year‐old patients completing their final year of treatment, and1the permanent tooth filling rates of all patients with permanent teeth (aged 6–13 years).These suggest that child dental decay differences are not closely related to the presence or absence of water fluoridation. Official census information on the above and other communities suggests that dental health differences could be related to demographic, especially socio‐

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00136.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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AbstractLittle information is available about the pathway along which psychiatric admissions move from the community to residential care. A cohort of one year's admissions has been analysed in a Queensland provincial city recording the community situation in which their referral starts and the various agencies involved en route to the hospital bed. Those whose initiation process was started by self, by family members, by neighbours or significant others in the patient's life seemed to find the pathway easier. Others already in some contact with the non‐family professionals, welfare and other agencies, or who have no family resources, experienced more difficultie

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00137.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMedicare data are examined to determine whether there is an association between bulk billing and the ‘abuse’ of Medicare. It is found that, with the exception of one group — ‘GP‐Specialist’, there is no systematic relationship between bulk billing and increased medical incomes. Neither GP gross income nor total fees per patient vary significantly with the proportion of items bulk billed. By contrast, there is a significant and systematic increase in total fees per patient as medical incom

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00138.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe paper discusses issues surrounding the use of alcohol taxation as a means of reducing the costs imposed on New Zealand society by the abuse of alcohol. Econometric studies have indicated that, in common with most other industrialised countries, increases in the real price of alcoholic beverages in New Zealand reduce the per capita consumption of alcohol. Alcohol taxes are well‐targeted towards those who are most likely to impose costs on society: 7% of drinkers drink approximately half of all alcohol consumed and therefore pay a large proportion of alcohol taxes. The common assertion that the burden of alcohol taxes falls disproportionately on low income groups is not supported by this analysis: alcohol taxation in New Zealand appears to be proportional rather than regressiv

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00139.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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AbstractAn administrative system which rationalizes the management of nursing home waiting lists has been developed and introduced to the Bundoora Extended Care Centre catchment area. The system improves the reliability and ease of management of each individual nursing home list, without interfering with the nursing home's right to select its own applicants. The high level of continued voluntary participation in the service is one measure of its benefits. In addition to administrative functions, the system provides a potentially valuable research tool in monitoring the unmet demand by appropriately assessed applicants for nursing home care. This should facilitate rational planning for this increasingly important area of the welfare budget.

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00140.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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AbstractKnowledge about asthma and its management was assessed by questionnaire in adult outpatients of a teaching hospital and in attenders of a community asthma information program. The hospital outpatients were older, less well educated and suffered more severe, chronic asthma than the program attenders. Nevertheless the groups did not substantially differ in their knowledge about asthma. The subgroup of hospital outpatients with prior exposure to asthma educational material and with multiple past hospital admissions had significantly higher overall asthma knowledge scores.Both groups had poor knowledge about the treatment of asthma emergencies. Other gaps in knowledge related to asthma triggers (particularly aspirin and food additives), the utility of allergy tests and swimming and room vaporisers in the control of asthma.The identification of both gaps in asthma knowledge and of the subgroups of patients with poor overall knowledge is important if patient education by clinicians or health educators is to be successful. Gaps in knowledge of crisis management common to both groups studied are particularly disturbing given that asthma is a common disease with significant preventable mortality and morbidity.

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00141.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00142.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractCommunity health services to remote Australian communities are frequently overlooked by health policy and planning authorities, despite the particular health and social problems confronting these communities. Nurses are the main providers of health care in isolated regions where they must perform an extended primary health care role. It is assumed that a nurse in the community can fulfil multiple and continuous roles in clinical care, and public health. In the absence of administrative expertise the isolated community health service functions more often by reflex action than design. Essential factors in the development of health services to remote communities include evaluation of current practices and staff utilisation. Greater accountability for funding would enforce regular reviews. Deliberate health services planning must be flexible to community changes and consider appropriate alternatives to the prevailing curative focus.

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00143.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00144.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Alison While (ed.):Research in Preventive Community Nursing Care.(John Wiley&Sons, Chichester, 1986) Karen Luker and Jean Orr (eds):Health Visiting.Bandman, Elsie J. and Bandman, Bertram:Nursing Ethics in the Life SpanJoseph D. Magnet and Eike‐Henner W. Kluge:Withholding Treatment from Defective Newborn Children.Kim Oates:Child Abuse and Neglect: What Happens Eventually?Wendy Savage:A Savage Enquiry.Valerie A. Brown et al.;Our Daily Fix — Drugs in Australia.Bobbie Jacobson:Beating the Ladykillers: Women&Smoking.S.W. Emmett (Ed.)Theory and Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: Biomedical, Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives.D. Willocks, S. Peace and L. Kellaher:Private Lives in Public Places — A Research‐Based Critique of Residential Life in Local Authority Old People's HomesAlan L. Sorkin,Health Care and the Changing Economic EnvironmentW.N. Leutz, et al.Changing Health Care for an Aging Society.Judith Healy, Graeme Hugo and Mary Luszcz:The Elderly in Suburban Adelaide.(School of Social Sciences F.U.S.A. 1986)Bryan S. Turner:The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory.(Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984) Ray Fitzpatrick et al:The Experience of Illness.Mary Dickenson&Catherine Mason:Hospitals and Politics. The Australian Hospital Association 1946‐86Institute of Medicine:Assessing Medical Technologies.James Midgley et al:Community Participation, Social Development and the StateNoel S. Weiss:Clinical Epidemiology. The Study of the Outcome of Illness.J.L. Kelsey, W.D. Thompson, A.S. Evans:Methods in Observational Epidemiology.Adam&Jessica Kuper (eds.):The Social Science E

ISSN:0314-9021    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00145.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY