Public Health

• A score for the prediction of cardiovascular events in the hypertensive aged
• A study of high risk hypertensive patients in a regional hospital in Victoria
• A tobacco advocacy collaboration, working with local governments in Victoria and New South Wales
• Access to action: Physical activity, CVD/diabetes and ethnicity
• Addressing a barrier to exercise participation for older adults: A review of the efficacy of a revised health and risk assessment process for the Agestrong program
• Associations of excess weight gain during pregnancy with long-term maternal cardiovascular risks
• AusSCORE relates to cost of isolated CABG surgery
• Barriers to participating in cardiac rehabilitation: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative data
• Blood pressure and body fat: a comparison of the associations in Australian and Vietnamese populations
• Breakfast skipping and takeaway food consumption: associations with cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) study
• Building the capacity within rural general practice settings to support lifestyle interventions
• Can we increase awareness, understanding and knowledge of the warning signs of heart attack with a social marketing campaign?
• Cardiovascular clinical outcome and quality registries - An Australian perspective
• Cardiovascular disease: Australian facts 2010
• Closing the gap between acute coronary warning signs and health access for Aboriginal patients in remote WA: Exploring the barriers for patients and health providers
• Closing the gap in Aboriginal tobacco use
• Coming Out of the Silos - An Integrated Cross-Goverment Approach to Food
• Comprehensive cardiovascular disease prevention in the workplace: baseline findings from partnering Healthy@Work (pH@W)
• Contribution of non-admitted ischaemic heart disease deaths to the incidence of myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians
• Development of a risk score for predicting mortality beyond 30-day after CABG surgery for the Australian population
• Diabetes has a greater association with polyvascular atherothrombotic disease than single territory vascular disease
• Dietary patterns are prospectively associated with increases in cardio-metabolic risk factors during adolescence
• Early childhood obesity prevention: promising outcomes from the Melbourne InFANT Program
• Encouraging young Western Australians to be smarter than smoking: Results from a comprehensive youth smoking prevention project
• Engaging and mobilising action in primary schools and early childhood services to prevent childhood obesity - Outcomes of a statewide program
• Ethnic and gender differences in the relationship between hostility and metabolic and autonomic risk factors for coronary heart disease
• Evaluation of the Wahgunyah factory canteen makeover
• Extending the reach -The Australian Go Red for Women 2010 campaign
• Factors influencing consumer use of the Heart Foundation Tick
• Farmers and chest pain: the difficulty of decisions, distance and delay
• Farmers and their hearts - risk factors and preventative medication
• Food security and urban Aboriginal people: it’s not just about running out of food
• Food sensitive planning and urban design (FSPUD) - a conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and healthy food system
• Heart disease and depression: is sequence of disease onset linked to mental and physical health outcomes?
• Heart Foundation Walking: Implementing safe, accessible and sustainable free walking groups across Australia through community partnerships
• Heart smart for women: A cardiovascular disease prevention project for women over 40 living in a locationally disadvantaged area in Sydney’s south-west
• HeartSAFE - A collaborative approach to reducing New Zealand’s sodium footprint
• Illness perceptions, depression and quality of life: What are the links?
• Improving mental health and lifestyle following Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) using a telephone delivered intervention: The MoodCare Trial
• Improving patient care: Chronic heart failure self management in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Incidence and survival trends of heart failure complicating first myocardial infarction in Western Australia between 1996 and 2007
• Keeping active with a chronic disease: Phase 4Ever project
• Know your numbers (KYN) 2007-2009 Program”: Is there evidence the KYN programs improves knowledge and behaviour of participants?
• Measures of childhood adiposity that mostly strongly predict adult cardio-metabolic health: findings from the childhood determinants of adult health study
• Menu Disclosure Schemes: Challenges and Opportunities
• Mild depression post event predicts death: A 12-year follow-up of women
• Milk fat - what are the market dynamics?
• More or less physical activity and the effect on cardiovascular mortality in a high-risk population
• Multiple uses of lifestyle survey in pacific church community projects in New Zealand
• National data systems and best practice guidelines for rheumatic heart disease control
• National partnerships for healthy spaces & places
• National survey of Australian cardiologists' beliefs and practice regarding screening, diagnosis and management of depression in cardiac patients
• Opposing socioeconomic gradients among overweight and obese Victorians: implications for research
• Oral health and heart disease
• Outcomes for people with atrial fibrillation in an Australian nationwide audit of stroke care
• Patients’ perceptions of the role of cardiac rehabilitation in return to work
• Pigs might fly, or pie in the sky? The advocacy journey of the Health in All Policies Collaboration in Tasmania
• Pre-hospital delay in Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals with acute coronary syndrome in Western Australia
• Preventing childhood obesity at community level
• Preventing heart disease and dementia: Implications of the current evidence
• Preventing weight gain among Western Australian adults: Results of the Draw the Line campaign
• Prevention of cardiovascular disease in an australian rural health care setting: The Healthy Hearts Program
• Prevention of cardiovascular disease: monitoring framework and application to risk factor prevention
• Progressing a national partnership on preventive health locally: a return to workers and communities
• Public heath impact of MARS chocolate product reformulations
• Reducing heart disease in our Aboriginal communities:My Heart My Family Our Culture educational resources
• Reducing the burden of RHD on Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander people: RHDAustralia, a national approach
• Relative importance of risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality: a prospective cohort study
• Risk factor status and response to The COACH Program (TCP) in public and private cardiovascular patients
• Significant challenges remain to achieve risk reduction targets for cardiovascular secondary prevention and diabetes
• Social determainats of health responsible for the rates of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in north west Queensland
• Socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity: who is ‘resilient’?
• Socioeconomic disparities in self-reported cardiovascular disease for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults: analysis of national survey data
• Socioeconomic inequalities in primary prevention of coronary heart disease: do they exist?
• Space for active play, involving 8-12 year old children in park design
• Spicing up your advice - CVD, diabetes, ethnicity & diet: There’s no action without it!
• Sugar-sweetened beverage intakes are associated with increases in cardio-metabolic risk factors during adolescence
• Targeted messaging to assist rheumatic fever prevention in high risk people
• The development and process evaluation of a physical activity and nutrition program for people aged 60-70
• The impact of Lost Therapeutic Benefit (LTB) in high risk patients managed for hypertension in Australian general practice
• The implications of diabetes risk on cardiovascular disease risk
• The National Stroke Foundation’s public awareness have increased ambulance dispatches for stroke in Melbourne
• The occurrence of metabolic syndrome in Korean and Chinese immigrant women
• The relevance and resonance of heart attack warning signs messages with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The Victorian health monitor - A physical and biomedical measurement survey
• Threat, coping and emotional distress to predict health behaviour change after percutanous coronary intervention
• Towards a collaborative approach to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and dementia
• Trends in out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest of presumed cardiac aetiology in Melbourne, Australia (2000-2009)
• Use and outcomes of cardiac pacemakers after AMI
• Using taste exposure with rewards to increase liking of vegetables in 4 - 6 year old children
• Validity and reliability of a brief self-report measure of occupational sitting and physical activity: the occupational moving and sitting questionnaire
• What health practitioners need to know about antioxidants for cardiovascular health: a Heart Foundation nutrition review
• Where next for interventions to prevent obesity? A third generation for intervention science
• Which way to get children walking to school? A review of children’s travel behaviour change programs in Australia
• Why plain packaging of tobacco products is necessary

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