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Public Health Research & Practice

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2204-2091

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The 45 and Up Study: an investment in healthy ageing

This narrative review explores the value and contribution of the 45 and Up Study - Australia’s largest longitudinal study of healthy ageing - to our understanding of factors that enable people to age well, widening inequities as people age, and prospects for healthy ageing for current and subsequent generations.
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Capacity of the 45 and Up Study to mobilise evidence-based improvements in cancer control: lung cancer case study

Over the 15 years since the 45 and Up Study was established, researchers have harnessed its capacity for enabling rigorous, comprehensive investigation of cancer causes, care, and outcomes. This paper uses lung cancer as a case study to demonstrate the Study’s potential to improve cancer control.
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The Australian moratorium on genetics and life insurance: evaluating policy compared to Parliamentary recommendations regarding genetic discrimination

In 2018, a Parliamentary Joint Committee recommended an urgent ban be implemented on the use of predictive genetic test results in life insurance underwriting in Australia. This article evaluates whether the moratorium meets the Parliamentary Committee recommendations, and finds that it falls short in key areas, requiring further regulation by the Australian government.
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Reasons that clinicians in Australia offer cervical screening outside guidelines for frequency, age and co-testing

This study investigates clinicians’ adherence to revised cervical screening guidelines and aims to identify any reasons for them screening women outside the revised guidelines.
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45 and Up COVID Insights: a dynamic and collaborative approach to evidence-making during the COVID-19 pandemic

Catherine D’Este, Julia Steinberg, Marianne Weber, Jill Newby, Ding Ding, Bette Liu, Barry Edwards, Andrew Milat, Martin McNamara
This journal article describes a research project that was developed to generate timely, relevant evidence in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to guide policy, practice and planning in New South Wales.
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