The cost-of-illness due to rheumatic heart disease: national estimates for Fiji.

Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic valvular heart disease that is responsible for a heavy burden of premature mortality in low- and middle-income countries. The total costs of RHD are important to health policy and research investment decisions. We estimate for the first time the total cost of RHD for Fiji (2008-2012) using a cost-of-illness approach and novel primary data on RHD disease burden and costs.

'I think we've had a health screen': New offshore screening, new refugee health guidelines, new Syrian and Iraqi cohorts: Recommendations, reality, results and review.

Aim: To examine refugee health assessments in Syrian and Iraqi children in the context of changes to offshore immigration screening, updated Australian refugee health guidelines and the primary care refugee health model in Victoria.

Methods: This is a retrospective audit of Syrian and Iraqi children aged 0-17 years attending a specialist immigrant health service from January 2015 to September 2017.

Results: We saw 128 children (7 months-16 years, 64.

An epidemiological study to assess the true incidence and prevalence of rheumatic heart disease and acute rheumatic fever in New Caledonian school children.

Aim: To provide in New Caledonian school children (i) the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) detected by annual screening program using new World Heart Federation diagnostic criteria; (ii) the point prevalence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF); and (iii) to investigate socio-demographic risk factors associated with RHD.

Methods: This study linked data from national ARF/RHD programs by combining ARF incidence data from the register with RHD prevalence data from echocardiographic screening data for a single age year of the population for overall point prevalence ARF/RHD rates. For the analysis, cases of echocardiographic detection of RHD are presumed to be synonymous with undiagnosed ARF.

The content and structure of Australian television reportage on health and medicine, 2005-2009: parameters to guide health workers.

Objective: To describe the content and structure of health and medical news and current affairs reportage on free-to-air television in Sydney, New South Wales.

Design And Setting: Review of content of all health-related evening news and current affairs items recorded over 47 months (May 2005-March 2009).

Main Outcome Measures: Number and length of health-related items on news and current affairs programs, and topics covered in these (21 broad content areas and the leading 50/237 specific content areas); use of news actors, soundbite duration and apparent news triggers.