Priorities for Communicable Disease Control in New South Wales, 2003

Priorities for communicable disease control in New South Wales, 2003.

The control of communicable diseases is a core function of government, which must be achieved through collaboration with clinicians, laboratory scientists, affected communities, and other government and community-based agencies. Changes in environmental and social conditions, and the development of new prevention technologies, influence the incidence of communicable diseases and the community’s...

New South Wales mothers and babies 2003.

New South Wales Adult Health Survey 2003.

In 2003, the NSW Department of Health, in conjunction with the 17 area health services, completed the second year of the NSW Continuous Health Survey, an ongoing survey of the health of people in NSW using computerassisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The main aims of the NSW Continuous Health Survey are to provide detailed information on the health of the people of NSW, and to support the pl...

Communicable Diseases report, New South Wales, for May and June 2006.

meASleS uPdAte The NSW measles outbreak that began with 10 cases in March 2006 and continued through April (29 cases) and May (16 cases) appears to have subsided, with two cases with onset in June. The most recently confirmed case (a young woman from South Eastern Sydney) was reported with onset in early June 2006. Measles continues to circulate in many parts of the world; therefore outbreaks a...

New South Wales.