BACKGROUND Shiftwork among health care workers impacts upon the safety and health of both employees and patients. AIMS To characterize shiftwork-related attitudes, behaviours, symptoms and coping strategies among health care workers, two validated questionnaires (the Standard Shiftwork Index and the Pressure Management Indicator) were used to identify factors predicting shiftwork adaptation. ...

The extent of the surface area sunlit is critical for radiative energy exchanges and therefore for a wide range of applications that require urban land surface models (ULSM), ranging from human comfort to weather forecasting. Here a computational demanding shadow casting algorithm is used to assess the capability of a simple single-layer urban canopy model, which assumes an infinitely long rota...

BACKGROUND Honey is recommended for non-specific acute paediatric cough by the Australian guidelines. Current available randomised clinical trials evaluated the effects of a single evening dose of honey, but multiple doses outcomes have never been studied. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of wildflower honey, given for three subsequent evenings, on non-specific acute paediatric cough, compa...

In many urban areas, residential wood burning is a significant wintertime source of PM2.5. In this study, we used a combination of fixed and mobile monitoring along with a novel spatial buffering procedure to estimate the spatial patterns of woodsmoke. Two-week average PM2.5 and levoglucosan (a marker for wood smoke) concentrations were concurrently measured at upto seven sites in the study reg...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine associations between perceptions of neighborhood safety and physical activity among youth. METHODS We completed a cross-sectional study of children age 8 to 9 years (n = 188) and adolescents age 13 to 15 years (n = 346) in areas of varying socioeconomic status in Melbourne, Australia. Parents and adolescents completed questionnaires on perce...

Chronotype describes a person’s general preference for mornings, evenings, or neither. It is typically conceptualized as continuous unidimensional spectrum from morningness to eveningness. Eveningness associated with poorer outcomes across myriad of physical and mental health outcomes. This later sleep wake times increased risk depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation in both clinical community s...

Between people buying groceries for their elderly, ill, or otherwise self-isolating neighbours, the British public applauding NHS on Thursday evenings throughout 2020, and increased popularity of quizzes taking place digital platforms such as Zoom, Covid-19 pandemic has continually highlighted importance community to individuals’ wellbeing day-to-day activity. As such, editors thought it fittin...