EQ-5D-5L Population Norms and Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Modifiable Risk Factors for Adults in Queensland, Australia.

Objectives: Over half of Australia's disease burden is due to morbidity, predominantly chronic conditions. Health-related quality of life instruments provide measures of morbidity and health status across different dimensions with EQ-5D being one of the most widely used. This study reports EQ-5D-5L general population norms for Queensland, Australia using the recently published Australian value set.

Trends in Total Physical Activity Time, Walking, and Vigorous Physical Activity Time in Queensland Adults From 2004-2018.

Background: Health benefits of physical activity (PA) accrue with small increases in PA, with the greatest benefits for those transitioning from inactivity to any level of PA. This study examined whether self-reported PA time in Queensland adults changed between 2004 and 2018.

Methods: The Queensland government conducts regular cross-sectional telephone surveys.

Where children play most: physical activity levels of school children across four settings and policy implications.

Objective: This study examined physical activity levels among 2,296 Queensland school children in the school, club sport, active transport and free time settings. Childhood physical activity contributes to musculoskeletal strength, psychosocial benefits and cardiovascular health.

Methods: Data were collected from parents by computer-assisted telephone interview on an annual preventive health monitoring survey conducted by the Queensland Government.

Summer of sorrow: measuring exposure to and impacts of trauma after Queensland's natural disasters of 2010-2011.

Objectives: To assess the population prevalence of property, income and emotional impacts of the 2010-2011 Queensland floods and cyclones.

Design, Setting And Participants: Cross-sectional telephone-based survey using a brief trauma exposure and impact screening instrument, conducted between 11 March and 6 June 2011, of 6104 adults who answered natural disaster and mental health questions.

Main Outcome Measures: Natural disaster property damage exposure and emotional wellbeing impacts.

Frequency of sunburn in Queensland adults: still a burning issue.

Objective: To assess the current frequency of sunburn, a preventable risk factor for skin cancer, among Queensland adults.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional population-based surveys of 16 473 residents aged ≥ 18 2013s across Queensland in 2009 and 2010.

Main Outcome Measures: Proportion of the adult population reporting sunburn (skin reddening lasting 12 hours or more) during the previous weekend, by age, sex and other risk factors.

New directions in childhood obesity research: how a comprehensive biorepository will allow better prediction of outcomes.

Background: Childhood obesity is associated with the early development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, to date, traditional methods of research have failed to identify effective prevention and treatment strategies, and large numbers of children and adolescents continue to be at high risk of developing weight-related disease.

Aim: To establish a unique 'biorepository' of data and biological samples from overweight and obese children, in order to investigate the complex 'gene × environment' interactions that govern disease risk.

A review of the impacts of health and health behaviors on women's alcohol use.

Objectives: To summarize longitudinal research regarding physical health and health behaviors on women's subsequent alcohol use.

Methods: Medline/PsycINFO databases were searched; from over 5000 articles, 29 met inclusion criteria.

Results: Prior consumption and substance use are strong predictors of later consumption.

Estimating the prevalence of individuals likely to use publicly funded alcohol treatment services: an indirect estimation technique.

Introduction And Aims: Determining prevalence estimates of illicit or stigmatized behaviours is problematic, due to under-reporting and difficulties in sampling adequately populations most at risk of engaging in such behaviours. This has led to the development of indirect prevalence estimation techniques such as multiplier methods, capture-recapture, multivariate indicator methods and back-calculation. This study reports on the development of a treatment multiplier to estimate the number of clients estimated to seek treatment through publicly funded services annually.

Comparison of a food-frequency questionnaire method and a quantity-frequency method to classify risky alcohol consumption in women.

Aims: Population surveys use a variety of methods to collect data on alcohol consumption. Comparability of results across methods is a prime consideration. Different methods have been demonstrated to be robust in terms of ranking individuals' alcohol use, while results have been mixed regarding comparability in terms of volume of consumption.

Alcohol consumption of Australian women: results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.

Introduction And Aims: Alcohol misuse is responsible for extensive personal harm and high societal costs. Research related specifically to women's alcohol consumption is important due to gender differences in clinical outcomes and disease progression.

Design And Methods: This study examines longitudinal changes in the patterns of alcohol consumption associated with harm in the long term (chronic) and short term (acute) as defined by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.