The Public Health Bulletin South Australia provides an avenue for the discussion of primary prevention and population health strategies and a forum for debate on public health policies and issues. The Bulletin aims to increase the recognition and understanding of the critical role population health plays in creating healthy and safe communities. This will be achieved through publishing scientifically based, peer reviewed articles which:

• Increase understanding and recognition of the strengths of public health strategies in reducing the burden of disease

• Provide evidence of emerging pathways between the underlying determinants of health and well being and their major causes of morbidity and mortality

• Identify strategies to prevent and/or intervene in the disease process

• Provide current data and information to practitioners and policy makers emphasising the value of orienting services towards prevention, health promotion and early intervention and to support effective public health interventions.

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Public Health Bulletin SA Volume 5, Number 2, July 2008 ~ Urban Pollution and Health

• Linking environment and health through the development of environmental health indicators

• Environmental health risk assessment and management Health impact assessment: Narangba Industrial Estate, Queensland

• Health and air pollution in New Zealand

• The Gladstone Project: a health risk assessment for air pollutants

• Bioremediation: Health considerations for using nature’s toil to clean soil

• Groundwater from domestic bores in urban Adelaide: Untested and potentially contaminated

• Health risks due to floods and sewage spills

• Public health implications of urban noise pollution

• Noise policy overhaul for South Australia

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report 1 January to 31 March 2008

Public Health Bulletin Volume 5, Number 1, March 2008 ~ Health in All Policies

• Health in All Policies: Setting the scene

• Health in All Policies: Perspectives from Europe

• Joined-up government now and in the future

• Social determinants of health: The key to closing the health equity gap

• The impact of chronic disease and the role of population health

• Health expenditure and ageing: Impact on South Australia

• South Australia’s Strategic Plan and Health in All Policies: Perfect partners

• A seat at the head table

• Health in All Polices: Health agencies’ role

• The South Australian Health in All Policies model: The developmental phase

• Case study: Healthy weight

• Case study: Work–life balance: What do we know, what do we need to know?

• Case study: Broadband and public health

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report 1 January to 31 December 2007

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Public Health Bulletin Volume 4, Number 3, November 2007 ~ Planning for Health: The Built Environment

• Making cities healthier: Reconnecting public health and urban planning

• A social–ecological perspective on health in urban environments

• Gender, local governance and violence prevention

• The impact of urban form on public health

• Translating active living principles into action: Case studies from the Heart Foundation

• Health impact assessment in South Australia

• Transport and public health

• Housing for Health in Indigenous communities

• Imagination: The only antidote to design hazards in the built environment

• Community engagement and planning decisions

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report April– June 2007

• Influenza in South Australia in 2007

• Hand and respiratory hygiene project: Wash, Wipe, Cover – Don’t infect another!

Public Health Bulletin Volume 4, Number 2, July 2007 ~ Water and Public Health

• Public health benefits of safe drinking water

• Using health risk assessment in guidelines for recreational coastal waters

• Water supplies in remote Indigenous communities

• Water recycling: public health perspective

• How safe is rain water consumption?

• Bottled water: some health considerations

• Water fluoridation

• The drought and water quality of the River Murray

• Climate change and water-borne disease

• Blue-green algae: toxicity and public health significance

• Mosquito communities in northern South Australia

• Legionella and warm water system management

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report January–March 2007

Public Health Bulletin Volume 4, Number 1, April 2007 ~ The Politics of Food

• Politics of the food industry and the impact on consumers

• The role of food standards in public health

• Food nutrition and the built environment

• Sustainability benefits of a healthier diet

• Global food trends

• Food advertising to children

• Food insecurity in South Australia

• Improving the food supply in remote Indigenous communities

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report July–December 2006

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Public Health Bulletin Edition 5, 2006 ~ Population Based Screening

• Population screening

• What makes a screening program ethical?

• Cervical cancer screening in South Australia

• Cervical cancer screening: the future impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and HPV vaccination on the screening program

• Screening for prostate cancer

• National bowel cancer screening program update

• BreastScreen SA: reaching 70% participation rate

• Aboriginal Well Women’s Screening Program

• Nutritional screening for older people

• Screening South Australian newborns for hearing impairment

• Newborn screening in the 21st century: beyond phenylketonuria

• Emerging communicable diseases: pandemic and avian influenza

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report January–June 2006

Public Health Bulletin Edition 4, 2006 ~ Public Health and Communicable Diseases

• Public Health surveillance for communicable diseases in South Australia

• Emerging communicable diseases: Pandemic and Avian Influenza

• Vector-borne diseases in Australia

• Infections; kidney and cardiovascular disease in Aboriginal communities

• Hepatitis C virus infection in prisons

• Reflections on John Snow’s pump handle: Is there a need for an infection control program in South Australian prisons?

• Immunisation: a new era for vaccines

• Vaccine safety and community attitudes in SA

• Chlamydia: closing the stable door

• Sexually transmitted infections in central Australia – time for concerted action

• The impact of health care associated infection

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report July–December 2005

Public Health Bulletin Edition 3, 2006 ~ Chronic Disease

• Chronic disease surveillance in South Australia

• The prevention terminology

• The impact of early life on the subsequent development of chronic disease

• When you can’t breathe … nothing else matters

• Focussing on new ideas for dying habits

• The Go for 2&5® campaign - example of a public health nutrition early intervention strategy

• Diabetes mellitus – the life-style disease

• Self-management of chronic conditions: everybody’s business

• Improving health outcomes: self-management of chronic disease

• The Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Health Course for Aboriginal Health Workers

• The South Australian Health Omnibus Survey 15 years on

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report January–June 2005

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Public Health Bulletin Edition 2, 2005 ~ Population Health and Drug Strategies

• Approaches to alcohol and other drug policy

• Performance and image-enhancing drugs

• Alcohol: emerging patterns, problems and prevention

• Safety first: for young women who drink at pubs and clubs

• The school health and alcohol harm reduction project

• Population health in action

• Drugs and law enforcement: trends and initiatives

• Population health and effective tobacco control

• Inequalities and addictions: exploring a new approach to the relationship

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report April to September 2004

• Fact Sheet: Ross River Virus

Public Health Bulletin CDCB Supplement, June 2005

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report October–December 2004

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Public Health Bulletin Edition 1, 2004 ~ Cancer: The Role of Public Health

• Public Health and the SA Health Reform Agenda

• Epidemiology & Cancer

• Geographical Mapping

• Cancer Control in Australia

• Epidemiological Surveillance Services

• Of cancer registries and roll-ons

• Ethnicity and racial differences in cancer differences

• Screening for colorectal cancer

• Looking beyond a risk factor approach to cancer: new challenges for prevention and health promotion

• Reducing cancer risk through primary prevention

• Hepatitis C infection in Australia

• Communicable Disease Control Branch Report January–March 2004

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The Managing Editor, Public Health Bulletin South Australia
Telephone: (08) 8226 6228
Office of Public Health
Fax: (08) 8226 6515 (International fax: 61 8 8226 6515)
Level 1, 11 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide, South Australia 5000
Postal address: PO Box 6 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
Email: phbsa@health.sa.gov.au

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