Incidence of community onset MRSA in Australia: least reported where it is Most prevalent by Jessica K. Cameron, Lisa Hall, Steven Y. C. Tong, David L. Paterson, Kate Halton

“…Critically, we demonstrate that there has been a lack of consistency in reporting CO-MRSA and a general dearth of data. The only government in Australia that requires reporting of CO-MRSA is the Tasmanian, where the infection was least prevalent. …”
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Comparing the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders to prolonged exposure for the treatment of PTSD: Design of a non-inferiority randomized controll... by W. Lau, K. Chisholm, M.W. Gallagher, K. Felmingham, K. Murray, A. Pearce, N. Doyle, S. Alexander, H. O'Brien, A. Putica, J. Khatri, P. Bockelmann, F. Hosseiny, A. Librado, M. Notarianni, M.L. O'Donnell

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Machine learning-based integration of large-scale climate drivers can improve the forecast of seasonal rainfall probability in Australia by Puyu Feng, Bin Wang, De Li Liu, Fei Ji, Xiaoli Niu, Hongyan Ruan, Lijie Shi, Qiang Yu

“…The performance of the model was evaluated by comparing it with an officially used forecasting model, the SOI (Southern Oscillation Index) phase model (SP) operated by Queensland government in Australia. Results indicated that the random forest (RF) model outperformed the SP model in terms of both distinct forecasts and forecasting accuracy. …”
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Risk stratification in children with cancer and febrile neutropenia: A national, prospective, multicentre validation of nine clinical decision rules by Gabrielle M. Haeusler, Karin A. Thursky, Monica A. Slavin, Franz E. Babl, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Zoe Allaway, Francoise Mechinaud, Robert Phillips

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Infectious Disease Transmission in Solid Organ Transplantation: Donor Evaluation, Recipient Risk, and Outcomes of Transmission by Sarah L. White, PhD, William Rawlinson, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD, Peter Boan, FRACP, FRCPA, Vicky Sheppeard, FAFPHM, Germaine Wong, FRACP, PhD, Karen Waller, MBBS, Helen Opdam, FRACP, FCICM, John Kaldor, PhD, Michael Fink, MD, FRACS, Deborah Verran, MD, FRACS, Angela Webster, PhD, FRCP, FRACP, Kate Wyburn, FRACP, PhD, Lindsay Grayson, MD, FRACP, FAFPHM, FRCP, FIDSA, Allan Glanville, MD, FRACP, Nick Cross, MD, PhD, Ashley Irish, FRACP, Toby Coates, FRACP, PhD, Anthony Griffin, FRACS, Greg Snell, MD, FRACP, Stephen I. Alexander, MD, FRACP, Scott Campbell, FRACP, PhD, Steven Chadban, FRACP, PhD, Peter Macdonald, MD, FRACP, PhD, Paul Manley, FRACP, Eva Mehakovic, Vidya Ramachandran, MBBS, Alicia Mitchell, PhD, Michael Ison, MD

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Malawi and Millennium Development Goal 4: a Countdown to 2015 country case study by Mercy Kanyuka, MSc, Jameson Ndawala, MHS, Tiope Mleme, MSc, Lusungu Chisesa, BSc, Medson Makwemba, BSc, Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Josephine Borghi, PhD, Judith Daire, PhD, Rufus Ferrabee, MBBS, Elizabeth Hazel, MHS, Rebecca Heidkamp, PhD, Prof. Kenneth Hill, PhD, Melisa Martínez Álvarez, PhD, Leslie Mgalula, MSc, Spy Munthali, PhD, Bejoy Nambiar, MPH, Humphreys Nsona, MSc, Lois Park, MSPH, Neff Walker, PhD, Bernadette Daelmans, MD, Jennifer Bryce, EdD, Dr. Tim Colbourn, PhD

“…Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO, The World Bank, Government of Australia, Government of Canada, Government of Norway, Government of Sweden, Government of the UK, and UNICEF.…”
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Freight Logistics: A New Area for Cooperation Between Korea and Australia? by Peter J. Rimmer

“…The governments of Australia and the Republic of Korea recognize the importance of freight logistics in improving national competitive advantage. …”
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Book Review: Local Government in a Global World: Australia and Canada in Comparative Perspective by Claudia Scott

“…This book compares reform trends in Australia and Canada’s local government systems over the past two decades, with attention to the impact of globalization on local governments, their bureaucracies, and local democratic accountability. Local governments in Australia and Canada show striking resemblances in relation to history, development, and contemporary issues. …”
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Transition in the societal value and governance of water resources in Australia and China by Jing Wei, Yongping Wei, Fuqiang Tian, Yonglan Xiong, Hongchang Hu

“…This paper aims to reveal the co-evolutionary dynamics in the transition processes of the societal value of water resources and the network configurations of water governance in Australia and China in different socioecological contexts. …”
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An Analysis of the Recording, Reporting, and Use of School Attendance Data in Australia by Matthew Oliver White

“…This policy analysis highlights the multilateral achievement of the Commonwealth, state and territory governments in Australia to nationally align the collecting and reporting of school attendance data. …”
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Communications in the time of a pandemic: the readability of documents for public consumption by Catherine Ferguson, Margaret Merga, Stephen Winn

“…Methods: Online documents from the World Health Organization (WHO), and the governments of Australia, the UK and the US were assessed for readability using an online instrument that calculated scores for the Flesch Reading Ease Score, the SMOG Index and the Readability Consensus Grade Level. …”
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Who does Australia Lock Up? The Social Determinants of Justice by Ruth McCausland, Eileen Baldry

“…Crime rates are generally decreasing and governments in Australia (as elsewhere) have committed to reducing recidivism. …”
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Interdisciplinary Relationships, Influence, and Aspirations for Smart Heritage in Local Government by David Batchelor, Marc Aurel Schnabel

“…It draws on interviews with smart city and heritage advisors from three local governments in Australia. It finds a case-by-case working relationship between the disciplines, which indicates an emergent-yet-tenuous Smart Heritage discourse. …”
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On the transcreation, format and actionability of healthcare translations by Medha Sengupta, Anthony Pym, Yu Hao, John Hajek, Maria Karidakis, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Riccardo Amorati

“…This study analyses healthcare resources created by governments in Australia with a view to identifying formatting and other visual features that would benefit from transcreation. …”
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Planning for cycling in local government: Insights from national surveys in Australia and New Zealand by Courtney Babb, Sam McLeod, Conor Noone

“…To examine the challenges of practically planning for cycling, we focus on the role of local government and report on a survey of all urban and major regional local governments in Australia and New Zealand. By analyzing results across the two countries, we diagnose challenges faced by practitioners in implementing measures to support cycling. …”
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Prevalence of intellectual disability in New South Wales, Australia: a multi-year cross-sectional dataset by Local Government Area (LGA) by Phillippa Carnemolla, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul, Hamish Robertson, Julian Trollor, Nick Nicholas

“…This dataset was generated to share with local governments in Australia and has the potential to be more widely used in a range of health policy and planning research, and city and regional planning research environments. …”
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The role of Australian local governments in creating a healthy food environment: an analysis of policy documents from six Sydney local governments by Belinda Reeve, Anne Marie Thow, Phil Baker, Jessica Hresc, Serena May

“…Conclusions: Local governments in Australia are implementing policies to support improved nutrition. …”
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The power of procedural policy tools at the local level: Australian local governments contributing to policy change for major projects by Sarah de Vries

“…This paper examines the role played by procedural policy tools deployed by local governments in Australia around the policy formation for, and approval of, major projects. …”
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Participatory budgeting - the Australian way by Nivek K. Thompson

“…Even though the Canada Bay Citizens’ Panel process is not yet complete, it is already clear that its impact will be felt, not only on the budget of the City of Canada Bay, but more broadly as an exemplar for local governments in Australia thinking about engaging their citizens.…”
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Australian general practitioners’ perspectives on their role in well-child health care by Jeyendra Adrian, Rajadurai Jeremy, Chanmugam Joanna, Trieu Alan, Nair Suraj, Baskaran Radheshan, Schmied Virginia

“…Serious consideration should be given to developing collaborative models of care where GPs are joined up with services funded by State and Territory governments in Australia, such as the universal maternal child and family health nursing services that have well children and families as their prime focus.…”
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