Since 2008, the government of South Australia has been using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to achieve their strategic plan (South Australia Strategic Plan of 2004). In this commentary, we summarize some of the strengths and contributions of the innovative evaluation framework that was developed by an embedded team of academic researchers. To inform how the use of HiAP is evaluated mo...

CRC for Sheep Industry Innovation and the University of New England, Armidale, NSW 1 Department of Agriculture and Food of Western Australia, South Perth, Western Australia, 6151, Australia Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Austr...

1. Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville VIC Australia 2. Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton VIC Australia 3. Andrology Australia, Clayton VIC Australia 4. Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Clayton VIC Australia 5. Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC Australia 6. Centre for Health & Society, The University o...

1 CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2 CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 3 CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 University of Western Australia Institute of Agriculture, University of Western A...

CAROL-JOY PATRICK Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia WAYNE FALLON University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, NSW, Australia JUDIE KAY RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia MALCOLM CAMPBELL Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia PATRICIA CRETCHLEY Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia IAN DEVENISH JUSTINE LAWSON Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, ...

Author details Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag, 1797, Penrith South, DC, NSW 2751, Australia. School of Nursing & Midwifery, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia. School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, St George Hospital, IVF Australia Southern Sydney, South Street, Koga...

Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a common ailment of the knee. Both open and closed kinetic chain exercises are effective in strengthening of the quadriceps muscle. It has been suggested that these exercises are used jointly in the management of PFPS, but no study to date has evaluated the effect of combined open and closed kinetic chain exercises on PFPS. The present randomized controlle...

The role of spore dispersal mutualism remains equivocal in many fungus-insect assemblages. We tested experimentally whether an obligate spore-feeding beetle Zearagytodes maculifer has a mutualistic relationship with its host bracket fungus Ganoderma cf. applanatum via spore dispersal. We asked three specific questions: (1) whether or not Ganoderma spore germination rate is increased via beetle ...