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MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in antenatal care: supporting pregnant women to quit smoking. As the MOHMQuit – Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking
MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in antenatal care: supporting pregnant women to quit smoking. As the MOHMQuit – Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking
MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in
Local knowledge saves lives
Community-led responses are a critical part of rural health research, especially as climate disasters become more frequent and severe. A new journal article co-authored by UCRH researchers Jo Longman, Emma
Why local networks matter after disasters
Rural health research often focuses on services and systems, but communities themselves play a huge role in how people respond and recover after disasters. A new journal article co-authored by
Psychosocial support to quit smoking
New rural health research involving UCRH’s Professor Megan Passey from the University Centre for Rural Health has contributed to an important update on how best to support women to stop
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When floods and fires hit the Northern Rivers, it’s locals who step up first. But how do we make sure that community-led disaster responses actually work, and keep working? That’s the question UCRH researcher Rebecca McNaught set out to answer in a new study published in the International Journal of Disaster
We were proud to see the work being done across two University of Sydney Rural Health Precinct locations recognised and published this week. Identifying barriers and facilitators to primary care practitioners implementing health assessments for people with intellectual disability: a Theoretical Domains Framework-informed scoping review has been published in Implementation
In the aftermath of severe climate disasters in NSW, a new report highlights the pivotal role of community-led responses. Authored by researchers from the Sydney Environment Institute and UCRH, it showcases grassroots efforts in the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, and Northern Rivers regions. The report is an important outcome from the
It might seem like tempting fate to plan a Disastrous Writing Retreat, but the event was anything but a disaster. The two-day writing retreat was aimed at anyone who writes about disasters, natural or otherwise, and their aftereffects, and attendees described the session as some of the most productive days
Researchers from UCRH are among the authors of a journal article recently published in BMJ Open Volume 14, Issue 3. The article is titled Protocol for the process evaluation of an intervention to improve antenatal smoking cessation support (MOHMQuit) in maternity services in New South Wales Australia. From the outset,
We were pleased to recently hosted senior dentistry students from the University of Sydney as part of our Multidisciplinary Education program, often known as our Wednesday program. The students shared valuable insights on various topics, including barriers to accessing public dental services, early detection of oral health cancers, and the
UCRH director, Professor Vicki Flood contributed to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Heart that found compelling evidence that adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality among women. The study involved a comprehensive analysis
Dr Natalie Edmiston, who works with UCRH as the Academic Lead Research Education for Western Sydney University students, is one of the lead authors in a journal article published today in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. The article, Teaching to address overdiagnosis, delves into the need for medical students to learn to
Research co-authored by UCRH’s Director, Professor Vicki Flood has looked at whether a text-messaging-based lifestyle support program would improve diabetes risk factors following gestational diabetes (GDM). In the research, women with GDM were randomised following delivery to receive four text messages per week supporting a healthy lifestyle and parenting for
New research from UCRH and University of Sydney researchers argues that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are facing growing levels of scrutiny to prove their identity to access Indigenous-specific government services designed to mitigate the impacts of past government policies. Yet, it is those who have been most severely
New research from UCRH has been published, documenting how young people’s experiences on the 2017 floods in the Northern Rivers impacted on their mental health. The research set out to explore young people’s experiences of the catastrophic flooding and was targeted at those aged 16–25 years who were Northern Rivers
Yesterday staff at UCRH gathered to celebrate International Women’s Day. This year global theme for IWD was Inspire Inclusion. With well over a century of history and change, the first IWD was held in March 1911, and the day is now celebrated all over the world to acknowledge all those
