Vanessa Johnston

Promoting Road Safety Through Regulation: Aligning Road Design, Vehicle Design, and Road User Behaviour Laws in Australia

Vanessa Johnston

The concept of a ‘self-explaining road’ supports road design for safe road use by all modes to prevent crashes. Law supports self-explaining roads by creating the framework for road and vehicle design standards and establishes legal rules that guide road user behaviour …

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Safety, Design and Law: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to Bicycle Rider Road Safety

Robbie Napper, Marilyn Johnson, Vanessa Johnston

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“That Heart Sickness”: Young Aboriginal People’s Understanding of Rheumatic Fever

Alice Mitchell, Suzanne Belton, Vanessa Johnston, Wopurruwuy Gondarra et autres

High rates of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Australia predominate in young Aboriginal people highlighting underlying racial and equity issues. This article focuses on the perceptions of the disease among young Aboriginal people living in remote Australia. …

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Qualitative Evaluation of a Complex Intervention to Improve Rheumatic Heart Disease Secondary Prophylaxis

Clancy Read, Alison G. Mitchell, Jessica Langloh de Dassel, Clair Scrine et autres

Background Rheumatic heart disease is a high‐burden condition in Australian Aboriginal communities. We evaluated a stepped‐wedge, community, randomized trial at 10 Aboriginal communities from 2013 to 2015. A multifaceted intervention was implemented using quality improvement and chronic care model approaches to improve …

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Improving Delivery of Secondary Prophylaxis for Rheumatic Heart Disease in a High‐Burden Setting: Outcome of a Stepped‐Wedge, Community, Randomized Trial

Anna P. Ralph, Jessica Langloh de Dassel, Adrienne C Kirby, Clancy Read et autres

Background Health system strengthening is needed to improve delivery of secondary prophylaxis against rheumatic heart disease. Methods and Results We undertook a stepped‐wedge, randomized trial in northern Australia. Five pairs of Indigenous community clinics entered the study at 3‐month steps. Study phases …

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Transition to adult care for Aboriginal children with rheumatic fever: a review informed by a focussed ethnography in northern Australia

Alice Mitchell, Suzanne Belton, Vanessa Johnston, Anna P. Ralph

Aboriginal children in northern Australia have high rates of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, which are chronic conditions because of the need for long-term treatment and monitoring. This article critically reviews the literature on transition to adult care for children with …

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Victoria: part performance: when it's the context that counts: Vlahos Pty Ltd v James Vlahos [2017] VSCA 166

Vanessa Johnston

Aboriginal children and penicillin injections for rheumatic fever: how much of a problem is injection pain?

Alice Mitchell, Suzanne Belton, Vanessa Johnston, Clancy Read et autres

OBJECTIVE: To explore young Aboriginal people's and clinicians' experiences of injection pain for the 10 years of penicillin injections children are prescribed to prevent rheumatic fever recurrences. METHODS: Aboriginal children on the penicillin regimen and clinicians were purposively recruited from four remote …

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The epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Australia Capital Territory, 2006-2015.

Belinda Jones, Vanessa Johnston, Ranil Appuhamy, Marlena C. Kaczmarek et autres

AIM: To review the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) over a 10 year period. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the ACT TB notification data from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2015 was conducted. RESULTS: Over the …

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Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Australia Capital Territory, 2006-2015

Belinda Jones, Vanessa Johnston, Ranil Appuhamy, Marlena C. Kaczmarek et autres

AimTo review the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) over a 10 year period. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the ACT TB notification data from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2015 was conducted.ResultsOver the 10 year study …

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Treatment of latent tuberculosis infections in the Darwin region

Rowena Boyd, Vanessa Johnston, Belinda Farmer, Vicki Krause

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Influenza vaccination coverage among pregnant Indigenous women in the Northern Territory of Australia

Sarah A. Moberley, J.C. Lawrence, Vanessa Johnston, Ross M Andrews

Pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are at particular risk of severe illness and high attack rates of influenza infection. In Australia, routine seasonal influenza vaccination is currently strongly recommended for all pregnant women and women planning pregnancy, and is provided …

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