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"Hotspots" and "copycats": a plea for more thoughtful language about suicide--Authors' reply

scientific article published in January 2016

A step towards evidence-based regulation of health practitioners

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Accuracy and interrater reliability of paediatric emergency department triage

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Accuracy and predictive value of incarcerated adults' accounts of their self-harm histories: findings froman Australian prospective data linkage study

scientific article published in September 2017

Accuracy of Clinician Predictions of Future Self-Harm: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Predictive Studies.

scientific article

Age Matters: Exploring Correlates of Self-Rated Health Across Four Generations of Australian Males

scientific article published in July 2016

Age-specific incidence of injury-related hospital contact after release from prison: a prospective data-linkage study

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

All-cause mortality and the time-varying effects of psychosocial work stressors: A retrospective cohort study using the HILDA survey

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

Ambulance attendances resulting from self-harm after release from prison: a prospective data linkage study.

scientific article

An investigation of neighborhood-level social, economic and physical factors for railway suicide in Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Application of scan statistics to detect suicide clusters in Australia

scientific article

Are we underestimating the suicide rate of middle and older-aged Indigenous Australians? An interaction between ‘unknown’ Indigenous status and age

article

Are young female suicides increasing? A comparison of sex-specific rates and characteristics of youth suicides in Australia over 2004-2014

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Assessing population-wide behaviour change: concordance of 10-year trends in self-reported and observed sun protection.

scientific article published on 22 March 2013

Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Association of smoking cessation with financial stress and material well-being: results from a prospective study of a population-based national survey

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Australia's Better Access initiative: an evaluation

scientific article

Bariatric surgery: many benefits, but emerging risks

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Belief in suicide prevention myths and its effect on helping: a nationally representative survey of Australian adults

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Calls to helplines in Australia following media reports of Robin Williams' suicide

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Can a documentary increase help-seeking intentions in men? A randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Changes in Practice among Physicians with Malpractice Claims

scientific article published on 1 March 2019

Changes in Suicide and Resilience-related Google Searches during the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Characteristics and predictors of regulatory immediate action imposed on registered health practitioners in Australia: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Childhood adversity and clinical and psychosocial outcomes in psychosis

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Children's sun exposure and sun protection: prevalence in Australia and related parental factors

article

Clinical improvement after treatment provided through the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) programme: do some patients show greater improvement than others?

scientific article published on 13 December 2010

Cluster Suicides Among Unemployed Persons in Australia Over the Period 2001–2013

article

Clusters of Suicidal Events Among Young People: Do Clusters from One Time Period Predict Later Clusters?

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Clusters of suicides and suicide attempts: detection, proximity and correlates

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Cohort Profile: Ten to Men (the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health)

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Community mental health care after self-harm: A retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 7 November 2016

Compensation seeking and disability after injury: the role of compensation-related stress and mental health

scientific article published in August 2015

Complaint risk among mental health practitioners compared with physical health practitioners: a retrospective cohort study of complaints to health regulators in Australia

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Complementary primary mental health programs for young people in Australia: Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) and headspace

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Confidence and Intentions to Help a Person at Risk of Suicide

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Contact with Mental Health Services After Acute Care for Self-Harm Among Adults Released from Prison: A Prospective Data Linkage Study

scientific article published on 02 May 2020

Correction to: Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Coverage of Robin Williams' Suicide in Australian Newspapers

scientific article published on 4 December 2020

Crafting safe and effective suicide prevention media messages: outcomes from a workshop in Australia

scientific article

Declines in the lethality of suicide attempts explain the decline in suicide deaths in Australia

scientific article

Development of a Self-Harm Monitoring System for Victoria

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Development of prediction models of stress and long-term disability among claimants to injury compensation systems: a cohort study

scientific article published on 28 April 2018

Doctors disciplined for professional misconduct in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2009.

scientific article published in May 2011

Does Gender Explain the Relationship Between Occupation and Suicide? Findings from a Meta-Analytic Study

scientific article published on 17 May 2015

Does disability modify the relationship between labour force status and psychological distress among young people?

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Does legislative change affect the use and duration of compulsory treatment orders?

scientific article published on 18 November 2018

Does litigation increase or decrease health care quality?: a national study of negligence claims against nursing homes

scientific article published on May 2013

Does tobacco-control mass media campaign exposure prevent relapse among recent quitters?

scientific article

Dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorder and injury in adults recently released from prison: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Effective psychological and psychosocial approaches to reduce repetition of self-harm: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Effectiveness of online and mobile telephone applications ('apps') for the self-management of suicidal ideation and self-harm: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Effects of mass media campaign exposure intensity and durability on quit attempts in a population-based cohort study.

scientific article published on 5 July 2011

Emergency health service contact and reincarceration after release from prison: A prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Ensuring older Australians remain socially connected during the COVID-19 isolation period

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Erratum to: Masculinity and suicidal thinking

scientific article

Evaluating the effectiveness of a website about masculinity and suicide to prompt help-seeking

scientific article published on 10 March 2019

Experience of Health Care Services After a Suicide Attempt: Results from an Online Survey

scientific article

Factors predicting coroners' decisions to hold discretionary inquests

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Frequent callers to crisis helplines: who are they and why do they call?

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Frequent callers to telephone helplines: new evidence and a new service model

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Geographic variation in inquest rates in Australia

scientific article published on 27 August 2012

Geographic variation in tobacco use in India: a population-based multilevel cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California

scientific article published on 1 June 2020

Happiness and life satisfaction prospectively predict self-rated health, physical health, and the presence of limiting, long-term health conditions

scientific article published in September 2008

Health-related factors predict return to custody in a large cohort of ex-prisoners: new approaches to predicting re-incarceration

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Heaviness of smoking predicts smoking relapse only in the first weeks of a quit attempt: findings from the International Tobacco Control Four-Country Survey

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Helping actions given and received in response to suicide risk: Findings from an Australian nationally representative telephone survey

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

High prevalence of health and social risk behaviours among men experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviour: The imperative to undertake holistic assessments

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

High rates of general practice attendance by former prisoners: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on July 2017

Identification of doctors at risk of recurrent complaints: a national study of healthcare complaints in Australia

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Identification of practitioners at high risk of complaints to health profession regulators

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Impact of a mass media campaign on participation rates in a National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: a field experiment

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Impact of tobacco control policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence

scientific article published on 12 June 2008

Impacts of a Documentary about Masculinity and Men's Health

article

Improving access to primary mental health care for Australian children

scientific article

In Whose Interest? Recent Developments in Regulatory Immediate Action against Medical Practitioners in Australia

scientific article published on 1 December 2020

In response to 'Correspondence: Identification of doctors at risk of recurrent complaints: a national study of healthcare complaints in Australia'.

scientific article published in October 2013

Individual and community factors for railway suicide: a matched case-control study in Victoria, Australia

scientific article

Influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza-related mortality in Australian hospitalized patients: a propensity score analysis

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Intellectual disability and patient activation after release from prison: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Job Stressors and Employment Precarity as Risks for Thoughts About Suicide: An Australian Study Using the Ten to Men Cohort

article

Letters, green cards, telephone calls and postcards: systematic and meta-analytic review of brief contact interventions for reducing self-harm, suicide attempts and suicide

scientific article

Life stress and suicidal ideation in Australian men - cross-sectional analysis of the Australian longitudinal study on male health baseline data

scientific article

Link-me: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a systematic approach to stepped mental health care in primary care

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Looking for the ‘active ingredients’ in a men’s mental health promotion intervention

article

Low Control and High Demands at Work as Risk Factors for Suicide: An Australian National Population-Level Case-Control Study

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Low-intensity case management increases contact with primary care in recently released prisoners: a single-blinded, multisite, randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Mandatory reports of concerns about the health, performance and conduct of health practitioners

scientific article

Masculinity and suicidal thinking

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

Mass media campaign improves cervical screening across all socio-economic groups

scientific article

Mechanisms of brief contact interventions in clinical populations: a systematic review

scientific article

Mental health service utilisation after a Community Treatment Order: A comparison between three modes of termination

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Meta-analysis of incidence rate data in the presence of zero events

scientific article

Modifiable risk factors for external cause mortality after release from prison: a nested case-control study

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Multilevel Regression and Poststratification: A Modeling Approach to Estimating Population Quantities From Highly Selected Survey Samples

scientific article published on 1 August 2018

Observed use of sunglasses in public outdoor settings around Melbourne, Australia: 1993 to 2002.

scientific article

Opiate substitution treatment to reduce in-prison drug injection: a natural experiment

scientific article published in March 2013

Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article

Outcomes of the Victorian Safewards trial in 13 wards: Impact on seclusion rates and fidelity measurement

scientific article

Patients' Experiences of Restrictive Interventions in Australia: Findings From the 2010 Australian Survey of Psychosis

scientific article published on May 2017

Patterns and Predictors of Primary Mental Health Service Use Following Bushfire and Flood Disasters

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Patterns and predictors of primary mental health service use following bushfire and flood disasters

scientific article

Physical activity and depression in men: Increased activity duration and intensity associated with lower likelihood of current depression

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Police-reported suicides during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador: A time-series analysis of trends and risk factors until June 2021

scientific article published in 2022

Population attributable risk of factors associated with the repetition of self-harm behaviour in young people presenting to clinical services: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Predicting suicidal behaviours using clinical instruments: systematic review and meta-analysis of positive predictive values for risk scales

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

Predictors of Two Types of Earthquake Preparation

scholarly article

Predictors of suicides occurring within suicide clusters in Australia, 2004-2008.

scientific article published on 7 August 2014

Predictors of using trains as a suicide method: Findings from Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Preliminary evidence for the role of newsprint media in encouraging males to make contact with helplines

article

Prevalence and Characteristics of Physicians Prone to Malpractice Claims

scientific article published in January 2016

Prevalence and Characteristics of Physicians Prone to Malpractice Claims

scholarly article

Prevalence and characteristics of complaint-prone doctors in private practice in Victoria

scientific article published in July 2011

Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia: Developing a State-Wide Typology of a Subacute Residential Mental Health Service Model

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Psychosocial work stressors and risk of all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Psychosocial work stressors and risk of mortality in Australia: analysis of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Public Service Announcements to Change Attitudes about Youth Suicide: A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Railway suicide clusters: how common are they and what predicts them?

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Reducing suicide through improved quality of care

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Relationship between quality of care and negligence litigation in nursing homes

scientific article published on March 2011

Relationship between stressfulness of claiming for injury compensation and long-term recovery: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on April 2014

Remedies sought and obtained in healthcare complaints

article

Removal of doctors from practice for professional misconduct in Australia and New Zealand

article

Reporting of health practitioners by their treating practitioner under Australia's national mandatory reporting law

scientific article

Risk factors associated with suicide clusters in Australian youth: Identifying who is at risk and the mechanisms associated with cluster membership

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

article

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia.

scientific article

Secondhand smoke exposure (PM2.5) in outdoor dining areas and its correlates

scientific article

Self-harm following release from prison: A prospective data linkage study

scientific article

Self-harm in the criminal justice system: a public health opportunity

article

Similarities and differences in people accessing prevention and recovery care services and inpatient units in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Smoking cessation and financial stress

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Smoking prevalence following tobacco tax increases in Australia between 2001 and 2017: an interrupted time-series analysis

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men

scientific article

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Mental Health and Substance Use in Young Men in Emerging Adulthood

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Spatial analysis of suicide mortality in Australia: investigation of metropolitan-rural-remote differentials of suicide risk across states/territories

scientific article published on 15 May 2012

Spatial suicide clusters in Australia between 2010 and 2012: a comparison of cluster and non-cluster among young people and adults

scientific article

Substance use and risk of death in young offenders: a prospective data linkage study

scientific article

Suicidal behaviour in Indigenous compared to non-Indigenous males in urban and regional Australia: Prevalence data suggest disparities increase across age groups

scientific article

Suicidality Risk and (Repeat) Disaster Exposure: Findings From a Nationally Representative Population Survey

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Suicide Clusters Among Top 10 High-Risk Occupations: A Study From 2001 to 2016 in Australia

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs): Examples from Around the World

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Suicide Risk Assessment

scientific article published on 1 July 2018

Suicide and the criminal justice system: a more complete picture

scientific article published on 1 February 2018

Suicide by health professionals: a retrospective mortality study in Australia, 2001-2012

scientific article

Suicide by health professionals: a retrospective mortality study in Australia, 2001-2012

article

Suicide by occupation: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Suicide in adults released from prison in Queensland, Australia: a cohort study

article

Suicide in adults released from prison in Queensland, Australia: a cohort study

Suicides in Australia following media reports of the death of Robin Williams

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Taxation Reduces Social Disparities in Adult Smoking Prevalence

scientific article published on 06 February 2009

The Australian longitudinal study on male health sampling design and survey weighting: implications for analysis and interpretation of clustered data

scientific article

The Australian longitudinal study on male health-methods

scientific article

The Earthquake Readiness Scale: The Development of a Valid and Reliable Unifactorial Measure

article

The PRONE score: an algorithm for predicting doctors' risks of formal patient complaints using routinely collected administrative data

scientific article

The Repeated Episodes of Self-Harm (RESH) score: A tool for predicting risk of future episodes of self-harm by hospital patients

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

The Spheres of Control scale: the identification of a clear replicable three-factor structure

The association between mental disorders and suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of record linkage studies

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

The effect of leaving employment on mental health: testing 'adaptation' versus 'sensitisation' in a cohort of working-age Australians.

scientific article

The effectiveness of structural interventions at suicide hotspots: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

The effectiveness of suicide prevention delivered by GPs: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 24 December 2016

The impact of substance use on treatment as a compulsory patient

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

The impact of transitions from employment to retirement on suicidal behaviour among older aged Australians

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

The importance of including aliases in data linkage with vulnerable populations

scientific article published on 6 July 2018

The relationship between working conditions and self-rated health among medical doctors: evidence from seven waves of the Medicine In Australia Balancing Employment and Life (Mabel) survey

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Time series analysis of the impact of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence among Australian adults, 2001-2011.

scientific article

Trajectories of psychological distress after prison release: implications for mental health service need in ex-prisoners.

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Understanding the characteristics and mechanisms underlying suicide clusters in Australian youth: a comparison of cluster detection methods

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Universal Suicide Prevention in Young People

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Use of prescribed smoking cessation pharmacotherapy following release from prison: a prospective data linkage study

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Use of sun-protective clothing at outdoor leisure settings from 1992 to 2002: serial cross-sectional observation survey.

scientific article published on 4 February 2008

Using a television documentary to prevent suicide in men and boys

scientific article published in January 2018

Using the 'presenting problem' field in emergency department data improves the enumeration of intentional self-harm in NSW hospital settings

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Validity of a Job-Exposure Matrix for Psychosocial Job Stressors: Results from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey.

scientific article

Venous Thrombotic Risk in Transgender Women Undergoing Estrogen Therapy: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis

scientific article published on 1 January 2019

Violence-Related Deaths Among People Released From Prison: A Data Linkage Study

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Weekend Sun Protection and Sunburn in Australia

article

What impact have tobacco control policies, cigarette price and tobacco control programme funding had on Australian adolescents' smoking? Findings over a 15-year period.

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Which Suicides Are Reported in the Media – and What Makes Them “Newsworthy”?

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Which types of televised anti-tobacco campaigns prompt more quitline calls from disadvantaged groups?

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Why Do People Take Fewer Damage Mitigation Actions Than Survival Actions? Other Factors Outweigh Cost

Why do men go to the doctor? Socio-demographic and lifestyle factors associated with healthcare utilisation among a cohort of Australian men.

scientific article

Why do surgeons receive more complaints than their physician peers?

scientific article published on 9 September 2017

Widening socioeconomic inequalities in Australian suicide, despite recent declines in suicide rates

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

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