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B Hocking

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PubMed1991

Changes in smoking behaviour after a total workplace smoking ban.

This paper reports data on changes in smoking behaviour after the introduction of a total workplace smoking ban in Telecom Australia. A sample of 1089 Telecom staff were surveyed in the months before the introduction of the ban and 620 were resurveyed six months after the ban had been implemented. A further sample of 1424 was drawn from the same parts of the organisation 18 months after implementation. Among the smokers in these samples, the bans produced a reduction in workday cigarette consumption of between three and four cigarettes a day and this reduction was maintained at 18 months. Over the two-year period from six months before the ban to 18 months after it, smoking prevalence dropped about 5 per cent, which we estimate is about twice the decline found in the general community. Workplace smoking bans can produce public health and can assist individual smokers to regulate their habit.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

Recent advances in gastro-enteritis.

This paper briefly reviews new knowledge about the causes, consequences and control of gastro-enteritis. Various recently discovered viral and bacterial causes of gastro-enteritis are discussed and the possible role of prolonged gut infection in causing malabsorption and thus malnutrition, considered. The revival of interest in prevention by improved water supplies is discussed and the need to critically evaluate the relative importance of the quality and quantity of a water supply stressed. Some newer regimes for treating acute and chronic infections are also discussed.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed1976

Welder's lung.

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Gas Poisoning↗
PubMed1976

Duovirus infection as a cause of infantile gastro-enteritis in Port Moresby.

A preliminary study of nine children under five years of age admitted to Port Moresby General Hospital with acute gastro-enteritis showed that five (56%) were excreting duovirus in their stools as shown by electron microscopy. Duovirus was not demonstrated in the stools of any of eight children with gastro-enteritis seen at Kainantu Health Centre.

Feces↗