A5047570319- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Noise Effects and Management
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
University of Tasmania
2022-2025
Menzies School of Health Research
2025
Menzies Institute for Medical Research
2025
Orygen Youth Health
2025
The University of Melbourne
2023-2025
Orygen
2023-2024
<title>Abstract</title> Objective Communities exposed to smoke and ash from severe industrial fires often express concern that chemicals the fire episode pose an ongoing risk their health by persisting in around home environment. While previous studies have utilised house dust soil samples estimate exposure contaminants resulting emissions up five years post-event, evidence for persistence is limited. This study aimed investigate if of contamination attributable a mine (Latrobe Valley,...
Cluster analysis is an explorative analytical method, serving as a critical tool in psychology, psychiatry and related fields to map heterogeneous data into meaningful subgroups. Despite their extensive historical use, traditional clustering techniques suffer from lack of stability, robustness, generalisability. These issues stem the inherent difficulties optimization problem well stochastic nature algorithm optimizers. To address these challenges, we demonstrate use methods utilising...
Abstract Aims The specific and multifaceted service needs of young people have driven the development youth-specific integrated primary mental healthcare models, such as internationally pioneering headspace services in Australia. Although these were designed for early intervention, they often need to cater with severe conditions complex needs, creating challenges planning resource allocation. There is, however, a lack understanding consensus on definition complexity clinical settings....
BACKGROUND: Due to climate change, landscape fires account for an increasing proportion of air pollution emissions, and their impacts on primary pharmaceutical care are little understood. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate associations between exposure in two early life periods severe levels PM2.5 from a mine fire, background PM2.5, care. METHODS: We linked records births, general practitioner (GP) presentations prescription dispensing children born the Latrobe Valley, Australia, 2012–2014, where fire...
Adolescence is a critical period for mental health and social exclusion, key determinant of health. Early intervention approaches are to mitigating the impact ill-health during adolescence, however exclusion can create additional barriers accessing care.
Aims: Most lifetime mental health disorders begin by age 25 years, and the prevalence among young people has been increasing over recent years. We sought to understand what impact, if any, social determinants have had on this increase through analysis of an Australian longitudinal dataset (with data from 2007 2021). Methods: The focused five determinants: loneliness lack support, family relationships, participation in education employment, receipt government benefits relative socio-economic...
Episodic spikes in air pollution due to landscape fires are increasing, and their potential for longer term health impacts is uncertain.Our objective evaluate associations between exposure utero infancy severe from a mine fire, background ambient pollution, subsequent hospital care.We linked records of births, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations children born the Latrobe Valley, Australia, 2012-2015, which included episode fire (9 February 2014 25 March 2014). We assigned...
Aims. Most lifetime mental health disorders begin by age 25, and the prevalence among young people has been increasing over recent years. We sought to understand what impact, if any, social determinants have had on this increase through analysis of an Australian longitudinal dataset (with data from 2007-2021).Methods. The focused five determinants: loneliness lack support, family relationships, participation in education employment, receipt government benefits, relative socio-economic...
Evidence on the relationship between air pollution and allergic sensitisation in childhood is inconsistent, this has not been investigated context of smoke events that are predicted to increase with climate change. Thus, we aimed evaluate associations exposure two early life periods severe levels particulate matter an aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 μm (PM2.5) from a mine fire, background PM2.5, later childhood.We measured specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) for seven common aeroallergens as well...
Bushfires and smoke pose substantial risks to physical mental health across exposed populations. Enhanced community-level knowledge response capability may promote exposure reduction therefore protect health, however few interventions exist achieve this goal. We developed an online short course, 'Bushfires Your Health', piloted it with older adults as a vulnerable group. evaluated course satisfaction, factors associated enrolment completion, the likelihood of increased bushfire capability,...
Abstract BACKGROUND Evidence on the relationship between air pollution and allergic sensitisation in childhood is inconsistent, this has not been investigated context of smoke events that are predicted to increase with climate change. Thus, we aimed evaluate associations exposure two early life periods severe levels particulate matter an aerodynamic diameter < 2.5µm (PM 2.5 ) from a mine fire, background PM , later childhood. METHODS We measured specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) for seven...
Background: Adolescence is a critical period for mental health; significant portion of health disorders emerge during this time. Social exclusion represents the absence opportunities full participation in society and key determinant health. This study aimed to better understand help-seeking experiences young people facing co-occurring social ill-health focusing on where sought support, barriers they had experienced seeking such their preferences supports.Methods. Data from 2022 Mission...
Aims: The specific and multifaceted service needs of young people have driven the development youth-specific integrated primary mental health care models, such as internationally pioneering headspace services in Australia. Although these were designed for early intervention, they often need to cater with severe conditions complex needs, creating challenges planning resource allocation. There is, however, a lack understanding consensus on definition complexity clinical settings. Methods: This...
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Health consequences of air pollution in early life have been mostly studied hospital settings, with less focus put on primary care and prescribed medications. The aim this study was to investigate general practitioner (GP) consultations prescriptions dispensed following exposure utero the first year Hazelwood coal mine fire, a severe episode lasting six weeks. METHODS: Victorian Perinatal Data Collection linked Medicare Benefits Schedule Pharmaceutical Scheme for cohort...
BACKGROUND AND AIM: The extent to which air pollution exposure in early life could engender modifications of immune responses with long-term health consequences is still largely unknown. aim this study was analyse emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations following prenatal postnatal severe smoke from the Hazelwood coal mine fire (9 Feb-25 Mar 2014). METHODS: Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset Admitted Episodes were linked Perinatal Data Collection obtain ED children born...