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Health Protection Report
Publications - October 2016
Health Protection Report NSW
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Publications - October 2016
Content 1
Corben P, Leask J. To close the childhood immunisation gap, we need a richer understanding of parents' decision-making. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2016
Heywood E, Zwar N, Forssman B, Seale H, Stephens N, Musto J, Lane C, Polkinghorne B, Sheikh M, Smith M, Worth H, Macintyre C. The contribution of travellers visiting friends and relatives to notified infectious diseases in Australia: state-based enhanced surveillance. Journal: Epidemiology & Infection, First View DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268816001734
Published online: 30 August 2016, pp. 1-10
Nicholl S, Seale H, Sheppeard V, Campbell-Lloyd S. Measles prevention in adolescents: lessons learnt from implementing a high school catch-up vaccination programme in New South Wales, Australia, 2014-2015. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 2016, 7(3).
doi:10.5365/wpsar.2016.7.1.009
Stephenson LM, Biggs JS, Sheppeard V, Oakman T. An evaluation of the use of short message service during an avian influenza outbreak on a poultry farm in Young. Communicable Disease Intelligence 2016;40(2):E195–E201.
Templeton D.J, Ressler K-A., Hope K and Poynten I M (2016), Enhanced surveillance of a lymphogranuloma venereum outbreak in Sydney 2010–2012. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40: 368–370.
doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12532
Phillips A, Sotomayor C, Wang Q, Homes N, Furlong C, Ward K, Howard P, Octavia S, Lan R, Sintchenko V. Whole genome sequencing of Salmonella Typhimurium illuminates distinct outbreaks caused by an endemic multi-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis type in Australia, 2014 BMC Microbiology BMC series 2016 16:211
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0831-3
Norton S, Cordery DV, Abbenbroek BJ, Ryan AC, Muscatello DJ. Towards public health surveillance of intensive care services in NSW, Australia. Public Health Res Pract. 2016;26(3):e2631633.
http://extuat.doh.health.nsw.gov.au/hpr/Pages/201602-publications.aspx
Norton, Sophie, et al. Narrative review of strategies by organizations for building evaluation capacity. Evaluation and program planning 58 (2016): 1-19.
Cashman, Patrick M., et al. "Closing the gap in Australian Aboriginal infant immunisation rates--the development and review of a pre-call strategy." BMC public health 16.1 (2016): 514.
Hess, Isabel MR, Kishen Lachireddy, and Adam Capon. "A systematic review of the health risks from passive exposure to electronic cigarette vapour." Public Health Research and Practice (2016).Vol26(2):e2621617
http://www.phrp.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PHRP-26-02-06-E-cig1.pdf
Christine Staples, Michelle Butler, Jennifer Nguyen, David N Durrheim, Patrick Cashman, Julia ML Brotherton. Opportunities to increase rates of human papillomavirus vaccination in the New South Wales school program through enhanced catch-up. Sexual Health, 2016
http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SH15132.htm
DN Durrheim, A Adams. Polio eradication: no time for complacency Int. Health (2016) 8 (4): 231-232.
http://extuat.doh.health.nsw.gov.au/hpr/Pages/201602-publications.aspx
J Flint, CB Dalton, TD Merritt, S Graves, JK Ferguson, M Osbourn, K Eastwood, DN Durrheim. Q fever and contact with kangaroos in New South Wales. Commun Dis Intell Q Rep. 2016 Jun 30;40(2):E202-3
DN Durrheim, AL Jones Public health and the necessary limits of academic freedom? Vaccine [2016, 34(22):2467-2468]
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.03.082
Craig AT, Butler MT, Pastore R, Paterson B, Durrheim DN. Update on Zika virus transmission in the Pacific islands, 2007 to February 2016 and failure of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance to signal Zika emergence in this setting [Submitted]. Bull World Health Organ E-pub: 19 Feb 2016. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.171892
Ashish C. Shrestha, Robert L.P. Flower, Clive R. Seed, Anthony J. Keller, Veronica Hoad, Robert Harley, Robyn Leader, Ben Polkinghorne, Catriona Furlong, Helen M. Faddy. Hepatitis E virus infections in travellers: assessing the threat to the Australian blood supply. Blood Transfus 2016;
DOI 10.2450/2016.0064-16 DOI: 10.2450/2016.0064-16
Corvalan C, Pruss-Ustun A, Wolf J, Neira M. Preventing disease through healthy environments. A global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks. World Health Organization, 2016,
http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/preventing-disease/en/
Pillsbury A, Chiew M, Bag S,Hope K, Norton S, Conaty S, Sheppeard V, McIntyre P.The changing epidemiology of measles in an era of elimination: lessons from health-care-setting transmissions of measles during an outbreak in New South Wales, Australia, 2012. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 2016, 7(2).
doi:10.5365/wpsar.2016.7.1.010
Report: October 2016
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