Social vulnerability and child food insecurity in developed countries: A systematic review.

Food insecurity (FI) is a serious public health concern in economically developed countries, mainly due to unequal resource distribution. Identifying social vulnerability factors (i.e.

Food insecurity and health conditions in the Australian adult population: A nationally representative analysis.

Aim: This study aimed to identify key health condition correlates of food insecurity in Australia using nationally representative data.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from a large, nationally representative Australian survey that included questions on the dynamics of families and households, income, wealth, welfare, labour market activity (including unemployment and joblessness), life satisfaction and wellbeing. Binary logistic regression models of eight items of food insecurity measured the association between 17 health conditions and food insecurity while controlling for various demographic and socioeconomic variables.

Health literacy and older adults: Findings from a national population-based survey.

Issue Addressed: With an ageing population and growing complexity and fragmentation of health care systems, health literacy is increasingly important in managing health. This study investigated health literacy strengths and challenges reported by older Australians (people aged 65 or over) and identified how socio-demographic and health factors related to their health literacy profiles.

Methods: The sample comprised 1578 individuals responding to the Australian Government's 2018 Health Literacy Survey, conducted between January and August.

Mobile phone penalties and road crashes: Are changes in sanctions effective?

Introduction: Road crashes are a major, preventable cause of death and serious injury. Being distracted by a mobile phone while driving can increase the risk of a crash by three to four times and increase crash severity. To reduce distracted driving, on 1 March 2017 the penalty for using a hand-held mobile phone while driving in Britain doubled to ₤200 and six penalty points.

Discrepancies in self-reported and measured anthropometric measurements and indices among older Australians: prevalence and correlates.

Background: Anthropometric measurements and indices such as weight, height and Body Mass Index (BMI) are often used to assess overall health and nutritional status. Clinicians and epidemiologists often rely on self-reported weight and height to measure BMI. Differences between self-reported and measured weight and height can lead to differences between self-reported and measured BMI, biasing relative risks of diseases associated with differential BMI.

Does inpatient health services utilization vary by remoteness in the medical financial assistance population? Evidence from Shaanxi province, China.

Background: Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) provides health insurance and financial support for millions of low income and disabled Chinese people, yet there has been little systematic analysis focused on this vulnerable population. This study aims to advance our understanding of MFA recipients' access to health care and whether their inpatient care use varies by remoteness.

Methods: Data were collected from the Surveillance System of Civil Affairs of Shaanxi province in 2016.

Spirituality and childbirth: An international virtual co-operative inquiry.

Problem: Medicalised maternity systems do not address spirituality as an aspect of childbirth and its practices of care. Neglecting the spiritual nature of childbirth may negatively affect psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing.

Background: While there is growing interest in the spiritual side of childbirth there is a paucity of literature on the topic, and hence a lack of understanding generally about how to attend to women's needs for emotional and spiritual support in childbirth.

Effectiveness of intensive, group therapy for teenagers who stutter.

Background: Treatment of adolescents who stutter is an under-researched area that would benefit from greater attention.

Aims: To investigate whether an intensive treatment programme for older teenagers who stutter, aged over 16 years of age, is effective in reducing overt and covert aspects of stuttering.

Methods & Procedures: A repeated-measures, single-subject experimental design was replicated across participants.

Connecting stuttering measurement and management: III. Accountable therapy.

Background: This paper is intended to contribute to the current debate in relation to persistent stuttering and evidence-based clinical practice.

Aims: The paper will describe the authors' intervention framework for persistent stuttering, which is guided by evidence from the fields of stuttering and clinical psychology. It supports the opinion that the components of therapy should be grounded in empirically based theories that offer an explanation for the nature of stuttering, its persistence and its individual complexity.