A. Jardine, C. A. Johansen, A. Cook, P. Weinstein
Clearing of native vegetation for agriculture since European settlement has left 1.047 million ha of southwestern Australia affected by a severe form of environmental degradation called dryland...
Health effects of natural dust: Role of trace elements and compounds (2005)
Cook, A. G., Weinstein, P., Centeno, J. A.
This article reviews the health effects of trace elements carried in natural dusts of geologic or geochemical origin. The sources of these dusts are diverse, including volcanoes, dust storms,...
Converging paradigms for environmental health theory and practice (2003)
Parkes, M., Panelli, R., Weinstein, P.
Converging themes from the fields of environmental health, ecology and health, and human ecology highlight opportunities for innovation and advancement in environmental health theory and practice. In...
Drinking water, ecology, and gastroenteritis in New Zealand (2000)
Weinstein, P., Russell, N., Woodward, A.
New Zealand has good quality drinking water derived from thousands of streams, rivers, lakes and aquifers fed by regular rainfalls ranging from 400 to 11 000 mm year-1. These waters are treated...
El Nino and arboviral disease prediction (1999)
Maelzer, D, Hales, S, Weinstein, P, Zalucki, M, Woodward, A
Recent El Nino events have stimulated interest in the development of modeling techniques to forecast extremes of climate and related health events. Previous studies have documented associations...
Climate change and human health in the Asia Pacific region: who will be most vulnerable (1998)
Woodward, A., Hales, S., Weinstein, P.
Self-organising systems adapt to environmental change, and this ability modulates the relationship between specific exposures and outcomes. Vulnerability can be thought of as the sensitivity of the...
The influence of climate variation and change on diarrheal disease in the Pacific Islands.
Singh, R B, Hales, S, De Wet, N, Raj, R, Hearnden, M, Weinstein, P
Freshwater resources are a high-priority issue in the Pacific region. Water shortage is a serious problem in many small island states, and many depend heavily on rainwater as the source of their...
An ecological approach to public health intervention: Ross River virus in Australia.
A detailed look at the ecology of a disease can lead to recommendations for public health interventions that are not otherwise obvious. To illustrate this point, this paper discusses the ecology and...
El Niño and the dynamics of vectorborne disease transmission.
Hales, S, Weinstein, P, Souares, Y, Woodward, A
The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between reported incidence of dengue fever and El Niño southern oscillation (ENSO) in 14 island nations of the South Pacific. Using a...
El Niño and arboviral disease prediction.
Maelzer, D, Hales, S, Weinstein, P, Zalucki, M, Woodward, A
Recent El Niño events have stimulated interest in the development of modeling techniques to forecast extremes of climate and related health events. Previous studies have documented associations...
Dental examinations for quality control: peer review versus self-assessment.
Milgrom, P, Weinstein, P, Ratener, P, Read, W A, Morrison, K
This paper reports the dental care norms for restorative dentistry collected from examinations of 1,466 patients in 105 dental offices in Washington State during 1976. These results are part of a...
The influence of climate variation and change on diarrheal disease in the Pacific Islands.
Singh, R B, Hales, S, De Wet, N, Raj, R, Hearnden, M, Weinstein, P
Freshwater resources are a high-priority issue in the Pacific region. Water shortage is a serious problem in many small island states, and many depend heavily on rainwater as the source of their...
An ecological approach to public health intervention: Ross River virus in Australia.
A detailed look at the ecology of a disease can lead to recommendations for public health interventions that are not otherwise obvious. To illustrate this point, this paper discusses the ecology and...
El Niño and the dynamics of vectorborne disease transmission.
Hales, S, Weinstein, P, Souares, Y, Woodward, A
The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between reported incidence of dengue fever and El Niño southern oscillation (ENSO) in 14 island nations of the South Pacific. Using a...
El Niño and arboviral disease prediction.
Maelzer, D, Hales, S, Weinstein, P, Zalucki, M, Woodward, A
Recent El Niño events have stimulated interest in the development of modeling techniques to forecast extremes of climate and related health events. Previous studies have documented associations...
Dental examinations for quality control: peer review versus self-assessment.
Milgrom, P, Weinstein, P, Ratener, P, Read, W A, Morrison, K
This paper reports the dental care norms for restorative dentistry collected from examinations of 1,466 patients in 105 dental offices in Washington State during 1976. These results are part of a...
El Nino and arboviral disease prediction
Maelzer, D, Hales, S, Weinstein, P, Zalucki, M, Woodward, A
Recent El Nino events have stimulated interest in the development of modeling techniques to forecast extremes of climate and related health events. Previous studies have documented associations...
Dental fear in Japan: Okayama Prefecture school study of adolescents and adults.
Weinstein, P., Shimono, T., Domoto, P., Wohlers, K., Matsumura, S., Ohmura, M., ...
A total of 3,041 students and staff in middle school in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, were surveyed regarding dental fear. Over 88% reported fear, with 42.1% classified as having high fear. Almost 70%...
Milgrom, P., Beirne, O. R., Fiset, L., Weinstein, P., Tay, K. M., Martin, M.
This study examined midazolam and midazolam plus fentanyl in a placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial. It tested the hypothesis that combined drug therapy results in significantly poorer...
Topical anesthesia: differentiating the pharmacological and psychological contributions to efficacy.
Martin, M. D., Ramsay, D. S., Whitney, C., Fiset, L., Weinstein, P.
Pain can be influenced by both pharmacologic and psychologic factors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the pharmacologic and psychologic factors. The purpose of this study was to...
Dental fear among university students: implications for pharmacological research.
Kaakko, T., Milgrom, P., Coldwell, S. E., Getz, T., Weinstein, P., Ramsay, D. S.
University students are often subjects in randomized clinical trials involving anxiolytic and analgesic medications used during clinical dental and medical procedures. The purpose of this study was...
Dental fear of Japanese residents in the United States.
Domoto, P., Weinstein, P., Kamo, Y., Wohlers, K., Fiset, L., Tanaka, A.
The purpose of this study was to investigate dental fear in a sample of Japanese adults and to make preliminary comparisons with a previously described US sample. The survey instrument was translated...
Social deprivation and the public health risks of community drinking water supplies in New Zealand
Hales, S, Black, W, Skelly, C, Salmond, C, Weinstein, P
Study objective: Quantitative evidence linking environmental exposures and social status at sub-national scales is surprisingly limited. This study investigated the public health risks associated...