Demystifying environmental health-related diseases: Using ICD codes to facilitate environmental health clinical referrals.

The burden of disease of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is estimated as 2.3 times that of the broader Australian population, with between 30% and 50% of health inequalities attributable to poor environmental health. Although many Australian states and territories have clinical policy initiatives that seek to reduce the burden of preventable disease in this population, including field-based environmental health clinical referrals (EHCRs), there is little consistency across the jurisdictions, resulting in less potential to break the cycle of recurrent diseases within the home environment.

Filling gaps - a case study in building advocacy capacity in the health promotion workforce.

Public health advocacy is a fundamental part of public health and health promotion practice. However, gaps exist in the provision of public health advocacy knowledge and skill acquisition both in the tertiary environment and within ongoing professional development programmes. The Goulburn Valley Public Health Unit partnered with the Public Health Advocacy Institute to build the skills of 49 public health and promotion professionals in their regions, to enable them to lead an advocacy project that aimed to promote state-wide initiatives.

Autologous blood transfusion reduces the requirement for perioperative allogenic blood transfusion in patients undergoing major hepatopancreatobiliary surgery: a retrospective cohort study.

Introduction: Major hepatopancreatobiliary surgery is associated with a risk of major blood loss. The authors aimed to assess whether autologous transfusion of blood salvaged intraoperatively reduces the requirement for postoperative allogenic transfusion in this patient cohort.

Materials And Methods: In this single centre study, information from a prospective database of 501 patients undergoing major hepatopancreatobiliary resection (2015-2022) was analysed.

Local government venues' sponsorship and signage policies to limit the promotion of harmful products: A Western Australian public health audit.

Objective: Identify and assess publicly available local government sponsorship and signage policies related to harmful products in Western Australia (WA).

Methods: An audit of WA Local Government Authority (LGAs) websites (n=139) was conducted. Sponsorship, signage, venue hire and community grants' policies were located and assessed against set criterion.

Intraoperative cell salvage using swab wash and serial thromboelastography in elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery involving massive blood loss.

The loss of 50% blood volume is one accepted definition of massive haemorrhage, which ordinarily would trigger the massive transfusion protocol, involving the administration of high ratios of fresh frozen plasma and platelets to allogeneic red cells. We investigated 53 patients who experienced >50% blood loss during open elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery to assess allogeneic blood component usage and coagulopathy. Specialist patient blood management practitioners used a tailored cell salvage technique including swab wash to maximise blood return.