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Jay Trevaskis

Soft Drinks Linked to Cardiovascular Disease - 0 views

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    PRECURSORY signs of cardiovascular disease can be seen in children as young as 12 who have a high intake of sugary drinks, Sydney researchers have found, which could have implications for the rates of the disease in the future. While narrowed blood vessels inside the eye are a known precursor to cardiovascular disease in adults, researchers from the Westmead Millennium Institute for medical research have for the first time looked at the link between carbohydrates, which includes sugars, and the retinal health of children.
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Ottawa Charter - Better Health Channel - 0 views

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    An explanation of the ottawa charter
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YouTube - ‪The OC‬‏ - 0 views

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    TV commercials representing the various action areas of the OC.
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YouTube - ‪Medicare Levy Surcharge 2011/2012: nib Health Insurance Explained‬‏ - 0 views

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    A video looking at how medicare works, and what the medicare levy surcharge is.
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Heart Foundation NSW - Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney - 0 views

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    The role of the built and natural environments in influencing health and wellbeing is widely acknowledged in the literature from a range of disciplines, including public health, health promotion, urban studies and planning and transport planning. A recent comprehensive review by the NSW Healthy Built Environments Program examined three domains, namely the built environment and:  getting people active,  connecting and strengthening communities, and  providing healthy food options
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Healthy Planning - Bellingen Shire Council Case Study - 0 views

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    This case study describes the outcome of a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to healthy planning. It illustrates an example of how a regional council, on the North Coast of NSW, with modest prospects of growth can fund appropriate changes to the urban form, through the incorporation of healthy planning principles within standard planning policies and instruments.
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Healthy spaces and places - 1 views

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    This website includes: * design principles that are the foundation stones of healthier more active communities * different development types where these principles can be applied * information about how to make planning for healthier communities happen. * Australian case studies that show what is achievable and which have potentially wider application, and * links to the health and planning research and resources that support planning for active living. Planning for healthier outcomes can be applied to all parts of Australia. It is just as applicable in metropolitan areas as it is in regional cities, towns, villages and remote communities.
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Type 2 Diabetes - 0 views

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    A simple yet informative animation about the role of Glucose and how it gets to the cells and how type 2 diabetes is formed and what happens in the cells.
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Gen Y becoming diabetes Generation - 0 views

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    ONE in three people from Generation Y will become part of Generation Diabetes or "Generation D", according to a new national diabetes assessment report. The alarming report, entitled Diabetes: the silent pandemic and its impact on Australia, has prompted some of Australia's leading research and consumer advocacy groups to demand a renewed focus from the Federal Government on the health issue.
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Herbal medicines: Study raises alarm over labelling - 0 views

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    Many herbal medicines are being sold with dodgy labelling and fail to comply with regulations, a new study has found.
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    Many herbal medicines are being sold with dodgy labelling and fail to comply with regulations, a new study has found.
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Better management of Diabetes in Australia - Policy - 0 views

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    Diabetes Australia is a national federated body comprised of state and territory organisations, supporting people with Diabetes and those professional and research bodies concerned with the treatment and prevention of diabetes. Diabetes Australia's purpose is to assist all people affected by diabetes and those at risk, and to contribute to the search for a cure.
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Cervical Cancer Rates at an all time low - 0 views

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    Latest figures released in a report today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) show the incidence of cervical cancer among Australian women remains at an historic low since 2002. The report, Cervical screening in Australia 2008­-2009, shows there were 9 new cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women aged 20-69 in 2007, with mortality at 2 deaths per 100,000 women.
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Baby Boomers fuelling skin cancer blowout - 0 views

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    The cost of treating skin cancer is set to rise by more than $700 million over the next five years as the Australian population ages. A study by Epworth and St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne has predicted a 40 per cent jump in costs, fuelled by baby boomers who were not told of the dangers when they were young.
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Tackling Australia's rising obesity rate - 0 views

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    Australians are getting fatter. And experts say diets just don't work in the long term. But should we be looking at this debate differently? And are people resorting to surgery too soon?
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Rural Cancer more likely to kill - 0 views

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    RURAL cancer patients are more likely to die than those in urban areas, according to a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Although the overall risk of cancer death decreased by one per cent from 2001 to 2010, the study shows the decrease was almost twice as high in metropolitan areas compared with rural and regional areas.
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Aboriginal Health - 1 views

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    While Canada, the United States and New Zealand have managed to lift the health standards in their Indigenous communities since the 1980s, Australian Aboriginal people suffer a worsening health crisis as these statistics show.
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Summary of Australian Indigenous Health - 2 views

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    This summary includes the following information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: population births deaths common health problems health risk and protective factors. This summary uses information from the most up-to-date sources to help create a picture of the health of Australia's Indigenous people.
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