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Torrens University Australia

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Constructing building integrity: raising standards through professionalism

Keith Hampson, John Phillimore, Hazel Easthope, Michael Ostwald, Kerry London, Zelinna Pablo
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

Yih Kai Chan, Dike B. Ojji
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

The contributions of scientific realism and critical realism to realist evaluation

Realist evaluation has gained prominence in recent years especially in the evaluation of programs involving human services, social policies and health interventions. In this paper the authors seek to unpack the key tenets scaffolding the practical application of realist evaluation.

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