Identification of opportunities to support Structural Adjustment in the Latrobe Valley

Identification of opportunities to support Structural Adjustment in the Latrobe Valley Briefing Report One – Assessing current knowledge

Epidemiology of medically treated sport and active recreation injuries in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia.

OBJECTIVE To quantify and describe medically treated sport and active recreation injuries in a defined region of the Latrobe Valley from 7 November 1994 to 6 November 1995. METHOD A geographic target area was defined, restricted to the six postcodes that fell wholly within the catchment area of the Latrobe Regional Hospital. Data describing medically treated sport and active recreation injuri...

Evaluation of the Latrobe Valley Better Health Injury Prevention Program.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Latrobe Valley Better Health Injury Prevention Program, a regional community based intervention in south east Victoria, Australia. METHOD The evaluation design was quasiexperimental including pre-intervention and post-intervention observations in a predominately town dwelling population of approximately 76,000. There was no comparison community. Process measures incl...

A very public death: dying of mesothelioma and asbestos-related lung cancer (M/ARLC) in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia.

INTRODUCTION It is anticipated that in Australia the number of cases of mesothelioma will continue to rise significantly over the next 15 years with power station workers having a risk second only to asbestos mill workers. Mesothelioma responds poorly to treatment and is almost always fatal, yet there have been few studies related to the palliative care needs of this diagnostic group and none f...

Model of Structural Equations of Marital Adjustment Based on Self- Differentiation and Cognitive Flexibility Mediated by Coping Strategies

Introduction: The family, as an important institution and provider of individual and social health, can always be threatened by various factors. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to marital adjustment as an effective factor in maintaining the marital relationship. The aim of this study was to provide a model of marital adjustment based on self-differentiation and cognitive flexibility...