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The Funding, Administrative, and Policy Influences on the Evaluation of Primary Prevention Programs in Australia

Evaluation of primary prevention and health promotion programs contributes necessary information to the evidence base for prevention programs. There is increasing demand for high-quality evaluation of program ...

J. Schwarzman, A. Bauman, B. J. Gabbe, C. Rissel, T. Shilton… in Prevention Science (2019)

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Modelling obesity trends in Australia: unravelling the past and predicting the future

Modelling is increasingly being used to predict the epidemiology of obesity progression and its consequences. The aims of this study were: (a) to present and validate a model for prediction of obesity among Au...

A J Hayes, T W C Lung, A Bauman, K Howard in International Journal of Obesity (2017)

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Age-specific changes in BMI and BMI distribution among Australian adults using cross-sectional surveys from 1980 to 2008

Research efforts have focused mainly on trends in obesity among populations, or changes in mean body mass index (BMI), without consideration of changes in BMI across the BMI spectrum. Examination of age-specif...

A Hayes, E Gearon, K Backholer, A Bauman, A Peeters in International Journal of Obesity (2015)

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Health-enhancing physical activity across European Union countries: the Eurobarometer study

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends the development of comparable national physical activity surveillance systems to assess trends within and amongst countries as the Global Strategy for Diet and Ph...

M. Sjöström, P. Oja, M. Hagströmer, B. J. Smith, A. Bauman in Journal of Public Health (2006)

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Risk factors for low birth weight in a socio-economically disadvantaged population: Parity, marital status, ethnicity and cigarette smoking

Low birth weight (LBW) is a public health problem, because it is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. The principal aim of this study was to assess risk factors for LBW in a large multi-e...

H. Phung, A. Bauman, T.V. Nguyen, L. Young, M. Tran… in European Journal of Epidemiology (2003)

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Associations of physical activity with body weight and fat in men and women

OBJECTIVE: Increasing physical activity is strongly advocated as a key public health strategy for weight gain prevention. We investigated associations of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and occupational/dom...

K Ball, N Owen, J Salmon, A Bauman, CJ Gore in International Journal of Obesity (2001)

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The relationship between body mass index and waist circumference: implications for estimates of the population prevalence of overweight

OBJECTIVE: Body mass index (BMI) based on self‐reported height and weight is a systematically biased, but acceptable measure of adiposity and is commonly used in population surveys. Recent studies indicate tha...

ML Booth, C Hunter, CJ Gore, A Bauman, N Owen in International Journal of Obesity (2000)

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The association between television viewing and overweight among Australian adults participating in varying levels of leisure-time physical activity

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of physical activity on the association between television viewing and overweight (body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m²).

J Salmon, A Bauman, D Crawford, A Timperio, N Owen in International Journal of Obesity (2000)

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High-dose chemotherapy, autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation and post-transplant consolidation chemotherapy in patients with advanced breast cancer

This study was designed to determine the complete response (CR) rate, event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with an adriamycin-based induction re...

MS Tallman, AW Rademaker, L Jahnke, SG Brown, A Bauman… in Bone Marrow Transplantation (1997)

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Methodological issues in the epidemiology of asthma

A. Bauman, D. Lyle in European Journal of Epidemiology (1988)