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Open AccessDifferences in weight status among Australian children and adolescents from priority populations: a longitudinal study
Australia has a high level of cultural and linguistic diversity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Children from specific cultural and ethnic groups may be at greater risk of overweight ...
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Open AccessThe smallest worthwhile change on function from a self-management intervention for non-persistent low back pain
To determine: (1) the smallest change in function patients would need to see following a self-management intervention for low back pain (LBP) to consider it worthwhile; (2) the association between patient-rela...
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Open AccessModelled Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Childhood Obesity Interventions: A Demonstration
To demonstrate how distributional cost-effectiveness analyses of childhood obesity interventions could be conducted and presented for decision makers.
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Open AccessThe Emergency nurse Protocols Initiating Care—Sydney Triage to Admission Risk Tool (EPIC-START) trial: protocol for a stepped wedge implementation trial
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a global problem and a threat to the quality and safety of emergency care. Providing timely and safe emergency care therein is challenging. To address this in New Sout...
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Hannibal Ante Portas
The ethics of arresting senescence, along with arrest to reversal, share ethical problems. Given the diversity of cultures, religious beliefs, and revenues of us humans around the globe, ethical rules are chal...
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Geroprotector
Geroprotector is a neologism for a procedure that has existed for centuries: creating drugs that slow down/stop senescence. Both instances are equally targeted: aging and age-related diseases. Melatonin, nicot...
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Senescence in Animals
Now, our book is drawn near our own senescence. Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm, and laboratory mice are the frontrunners of decisive insights into biochemistry and genomics of senescence. Reversal of a growth tim...
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Overlap Senescence/Chronic Disease
Aging and disease are intertwined. This chapter is the center field of geriatrics, and we throw the bridge between (accelerated) senescence and disease: are the two not prone to overlap? This raised our intere...
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Remaining Life
With remaining life, we allude to those individuals stricken by overt frailty. If acute, the remaining life is like retirement. Age segregation is customed in many developed countries as age segregation by con...
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Senescence in Plants
The plants, be they herbs, shrubs, or trees, growing old or leaving their century-old traces, serve as models for the senescence of higher-ordered organisms. An important process hel** the plant to keep gene...
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Rejuvenation/Regeneration
Regeneration: cutting/removing a segment of, say liver: after months, it has regrown to the actual size while with rejuvenation, we see the so far science fiction process of disappearing non-alcoholic fatty li...
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Mosaic of Aging
A human body can be sketched by a mosaic: organs, glands, recirculating cells, and on top of the entire organism, the brain. It goes without saying that as many elements, there will be many senescing stages, i...
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Medical Laboratory Technology
Diagnostic laboratory technology has gone through a hype during the last decade, which will undoubtedly continue the world over. Continuous flow technology injecting cell surface markers and analyzing reactive...
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Genetics—The Language of Proteomics
Genomics, this discipline of laboratory-based diagnostics, has evolved during the last century into a medical field with therapeutic potential. This is what this chapter wants to bring over. Such abbreviations...
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Time
No senescence or aging without running of time. There is no escape; there is no arrest. The involvement of the timeline in senescence is at the center of this chapter, and we analyze the speed with which the t...
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Open AccessUnderstanding patient preferences for emergency care for lower triage acuity presentations during GP hours: a qualitative study in Australia
Low acuity presentations to Australian emergency departments drive long wait times, higher costs and may be better treated in primary care settings. This study sought to understand factors leading these patien...
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Open AccessBronchiectasis - Exercise as Therapy (BREATH): rationale and study protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial
Globally, bronchiectasis (BE) unrelated to cystic fibrosis (CF) is recognized as a major cause of respiratory morbidity, mortality, and healthcare utilization. Children with BE regularly experience exacerbatio...
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Open AccessScaling-up food policies in the Pacific Islands: protocol for policy engagement and mixed methods evaluation of intervention implementation
There is a crisis of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Pacific Islands, and poor diets are a major contributor. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis will likely further exacerbate the burd...
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Open AccessGender, health and ageing in Fiji: a mixed methods analysis
Women are disadvantaged by ageing: older women are more likely than older men to suffer from ill-health, have less access to health care and suffer discrimination within the health care system. Globally, there...
