Report
Constructing building integrity: raising standards through professionalism
Hugh Breakey, Katja Cooper, Oz Sahin, Elizabeth Bazen, Charlie Gillon, Barbara Bok, Peter Gow
This report presents clear and telling insights into the tensions that exist for the professions in delivering much needed quality residential apartments. The identified pathways to action will strengthen ethical and professional standards in the construction sector, increase accountability and build public trust.
Journal article
Awareness about tobacco causing head and neck cancers via mass media: a case-control study from India
This study assessed the awareness of people about the adverse effects of tobacco (smoking and chewing) consumption causing head and neck cancers via mass media channels like television, cinema, radio and newspapers or magazines, wall painting or billboards / hoardings, public transportation and packets of chewing tobacco, bidis or cigarettes.
Journal article
Elevated blood pressure among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The findings in this study suggest that approximately one in ten adolescents have elevated blood pressure across sub-Saharan Africa. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to improve preventive heart-health programs in the region.
Journal article
Developing a Women's Thought Collective methodology for health research: the roles and responsibilities of researchers in the reflexive co-production of knowledge
This paper discusses a novel methodology that aimed to enhance opportunities for lay women from different walks of life to co‐produce research about health risks, without burdening them with problems they cannot solve.
Journal article
General practitioners' perceptions of the provision of direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C within Australian private general practice: an exploratory qualitative study
This paper argues that there is a need to increase the involvement of Australian general practitioners (GPs) working in private practice to realise the potential of direct-acting antiviral treatments for people with the hepatitis C virus.