Report of the Commissioner of Public Health / Western Australia.

  • Western Australia. Public Health Department
Date:
[1979]
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Credit: Report of the Commissioner of Public Health / Western Australia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER BRANCHES AND OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS Mental Health Services The Statistics Branch this year compiled and produced the first two annual Mental Health Statistics Reports [Health Statistics Series P, Numbers 2 (1977-78) and 3 (1978-79)]0 The Mental Health Statistical Research Unit also changed over to Data 100 Key-to-disk equipment provided by the Statistics Branch0 Data entry methods were refinedo More detailed infor¬ mation on these activities is available in the Report of the Director of Mental Health Services. Midwives Data Collection System The new forms were further developed and tested this year for implementation on 1 January, 1980. This Branch is grateful to have the assistance of this system of Dr0 Fiona Stanley, now of the N.H0 & M0RoC0 Special Unit in Epidemiology at the University of W0A0 Dr0 Stanley and her staff will be carrying out special studies using midwives data on our behalf. Medical and Nursing Manpower The Nurses' Survey and automatic computer addressing of the annual re-regis¬ tration forms was carried out for the Nurses' Registration Board. The Health Statistician wrote a comprehensive paper on Western Australian Medical Manpower while at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) this year, which analyses the manpower supply from 1961 to the present and makes projections to 1996. Alcohol and Drug Authority In addition to general assistance to the ADA in research, a joint paper produced by Dru SQS. Seow of the ADA and the Assistant Health Statistician titled Extraneous Drug Abuse in Methadone Supported Patients Attending the ADA, was published in the Medical Journal of Australia„ State X-Ray Laboratories The Statistics Branch ran the State X-Ray Laboratories data and computer system for the three months of Mr0 Bruce Hartley's absence„ Occupational Health Assistance with the sampling and analysis of audiology data was given to Dr. Ronald Hicks for his paper Longitudinal Study of Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Industrial Workers, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Epidemiological Research and Community Health (ANZSERCH). General / Numerous requests for assistance with data collection, analysis, etc., were received from hospitals, doctors and other organizations.