Background Adult Health Checks (AHCs) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (MBS Item 710) promote comprehensive physical and psychosocial health assessments. Despite the poor uptake of health assessments in ...

The number of older people living with a schizophrenic disorder (SD) is increasing yet little attention paid has been paid to the needs of this population relative to people with other chronic illnesses. In order to achieve ...

The aim of this paper is to provide a critical review of the literature, identify issues relevant to the nurse faculty shortage and provide direction for further research.

To identify the factors associated with better self-management in people with moderate to high levels of Parkino's disease following an acute illness event. PD affects many dimensions of life, including threats to self-identity ...

Speed and acceleration are essential for field sport athletes. However, the mechanical factors important for field sport acceleration have not been established in the scientific literature. The purpose of this study was ...

Evidence suggests that people with strong social support have lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life, but few studies have used longitudinal data to examine the factors that inhibit or ...

We have recently found that antimony(originating from the technetium 99m antimony trisulfide colloid, used for preoperative lymphoscintigraphy)can be measured in tissue sections from archival paraffin blocks of sentinelnodes ...

Current DiffServ architecture lacks mechanisms for network path discovery with specific service performance. It is recommended in RFC 2990 [I] that an admission control function be defined which can determine whether ...

Issue addressed: This study describes the trend in incidence of hospitalised falls from playground equipment of children aged 14 years or less in New South Wales (NSW) and considers the potential effectiveness of ...