The Cancer Council NSW

The Cancer Council NSW Submission to the Legislative Assembly Social Issues Committee Inquiry into closing the gap: Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage

The 45 and Up Study: fostering population health research in NSW.

Excellent, forward-looking population health research requires good ideas, skilled people and high quality infrastructure. The 45 and Up Study was developed to enhance population health research in New SouthWales (NSW). Since its inception in 2003, it has grown to become the largest cohort study of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, with more than 50 research projects underway using 45 and Up...

Caring at the end of life.

Associate Professor Debbie Horsfall of the School of Social Sciences and Psychology with Associate Professor Rosemary Leonard of CSIRO, Dr John Rosenberg of the Calvary Centre for Palliative Care Research, Australian Catholic University, Dr Gillian Batt of the Cancer Council NSW, Ms Kerrie Noonan and Ms Niki Read are researching informal community care networks for people dying at home. This pr...

Correction: Using patients’ experiences of adverse events to improve health service delivery and practice: protocol of a data linkage study of Australian adults age 45 and above

The authors have been alerted to the omission of the following important details in the reporting of their study protocol: ► The Sax Institute is acknowledged as the managing organisation for the 45 and Up Study. ► Prospective 45 and Up participants were randomly sampled from the Department of Human Services (formerly Medicare Australia) enrolment database, which provides near complete coverage...

Recent substance use and high levels of psychological distress among secondary school students in New South Wales.

In 2002, the NSW Department of Health, in conjunction with The Cancer Council NSW, carried out the NSW School Students Health Behaviours Survey. The methodology and summary descriptive results have been previously described [NSW Department of Health. The health behaviours of secondary school students in New South Wales 2002. N S W Public Health Bull 2004; 15(S-2): 1-86]. In the survey, 18% of N...