Robert Beaglehole

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Zeitraum

1977 - 2008

Anzahl

47

Co-Autoren

Communicable disease control: a 'Global Public Good' perspective (2004)

Smith, Richard, Woodward, David, Acharya, Arnab, Beaglehole, Robert, Drager, Nick

Despite the increasing ‘globalization’ of health, the responsibility for it remains primarily national, generating a potential mismatch between global health problems and current institutions and...

Public health workforce: challenges and policy issues (2003)

Beaglehole, Robert, Dal Poz, Mario R

Abstract This paper reviews the challenges facing the public health workforce in developing countries and the main policy issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the public health...

The search for new risk factors for coronary heart disease: occupational therapy for epidemiologists? (2002)

Beaglehole, Robert, Magnus, Paul

The identification of the proximal causes of coronary heart disease (CHD) during the second half of the 20th century contributed to the prevention of premature CHD and the extension of life...

Declining Rates of Coronary Heart Disease in New Zealand and Australia, 1983-1993 (1997)

Beaglehole, Robert, Stewart, Alistair W., Jackson, Rod, Dobson, Annette J., McElduff, Patrick, D'Este, Kate, ...

The authors report the results of 10 years of monitoring of trends in the rates of major nonfatal and fatal coronary events and in case fataJHy in Auckland, New Zealand, and in Newcastle and Perth,...

Relations of Changes in Coronary Disease Rates and Changes in Risk Factor Levels: Methodological Issues and a Practical Example (1996)

Dobson, Annette, Filipiak, Birgit, Kuulasmaa, Kari, Beaglehole, Robert, Stewart, Alistair, Hobbs, Michael, ...

One of the main hypotheses of the World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project is that trends in the major coronary disease risk factors are related to trends in rates of fatal and non-fatal...

Approaches to the Problems of Measuring the Incidence of Stroke: The Auckland Stroke Study, 1991-1992 (1995)

BONITA, RUTH, BROAD, JOANNA B, ANDERSON, NEIL E, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT

Background. Stroke registers are the preferred choice for determining incidence, case-fatality and severity of acute stroke in defined populations. This paper highlights some of the problems likely...

Does Recent Alcohol Consumption Reduce the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Death in Regular Drinkers? (1992)

Jackson, Rodney, Scragg, Robert, Beaglehole, Robert

This study, conducted in Auckland, New Zealand, over 2 years from March 1986, used a case-control design to investigate the hypothesis that alcohol acutely increases the risk of both nonfatal...

Decreased Blood Selenium and Risk of Myocardial Infarction (1990)

BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, JACKSON, RODNEY, WATKINSON, JOHN, SCRAGG, ROBERT, YEE, ROY LAY

The relationship between whole blood selenium levels and risk of acute myocardial infarction was investigated in a community-based control study in Auckland, New Zealand. A pilot study in 14 patients...

Myocardial Infarction is Inversely Associated with Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 Levels: A Community-Based Study (1990)

SCRAGG, ROBERT, JACKSON, RODNEY, HOLDAWAY, IAN M, LIM, THOMAS, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT

Scragg R (Department of Community Health, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand), Jackson R, Holdaway I M, Lim T and Beaglehole R. Myocardial infarction is inversely associated...

Trends in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and Morbidity in Auckland, New Zealand, 1974-1986 (1990)

JACKSON, RODNEY, STEWART, ALISTAIR, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT

Jackson R (Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand), Stewart A and Beaglehole R. Trends in coronary heart disease mortality and...

UNDERESTIMATION OF RELATIVE WEIGHT BY USE OF SELF-REPORTED HEIGHT AND WEIGHT (1987)

STEWART, ALISTAIR W., JACKSON, RODNEY T., FORD, MICHAEL A., BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT

Self-reported and measured height and weight were obtained from a representative sample of 1,598 persons in Auckland, New Zealand during 1982. The accuracy of the self-reported data and its effect on...

ALCOHOL AND EXERCISE IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND SUDDEN CORONARY DEATH IN MEN AND WOMEN (1987)

SCRAGG, ROBERT, STEWART, ALISTAIR, JACKSON, RODNEY, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT

The relation of alcohol consumption and regular leisure time physical activity with nonfatal myocardial infarction and sudden coronary death in men and women of Auckland, New Zealand, was examined In...

Comparability of Old and New World Health Organization Criteria for Definite Myocardial Infarction (1987)

BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, STEWART, ALISTAIR W, BUzTLER, MEG

New epidemiological criteria for definite myocardial infarction are now in use as part of the international study of trends and determinants of cardiovascular disease coordinated by the World Health...

Trends in Dietary Fat and Cigarette Smoking and the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease in New Zealand (1987)

JACKSON, RODNEY, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT

Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality declined by approximately 23.5% in New Zealand men aged 35–64 years between 1968 and 1980. The contributions of secular trends in dietary fat and...

ACCURACY OF CERTIFICATION OF DEATHS DUE TO ASTHMA: A NATIONAL STUDY (1986)

SEARS, MALCOLM R., HILLER, HAROLD H., BOER, GAIL DE, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, GILLIES, A. JOHN D., HOLST, PETER E., ...

In a two-year study of asthma mortality in New Zealand conducted between August 1981 and July 1983, the certified cause of death and its subsequent statistical coding was compared with the opinion of...

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND BLOOD PRESSURE (1985)

JACKSON, RODNEY, STEWART, ALISTAIR, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, SCRAGG, ROBERT

The relationship between alcohol consumption and systolic and diastolic blood pressure was examined in a representative population sample of 1,429 men and women aged 35–64 years in Auckland, New...

TRENDS IN CORONARY HEART DISEASE EVENT RATES IN NEW ZEALAND (1984)

BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, BONITA, RUTH, JACKSON, RODNEY, STEWART, ALISTAIR, SHARPE, NORMAN, FRASER, GARY E.

To examine the reasons for the recent decline in coronary heart disease death rates in New Zealand, a register of definite myocardial infarction and sudden death was established in the Auckland...

EVENT, INCIDENCE AND CASE FATALITY RATES OF CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE IN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND (1984)

BONITA, RUTH, BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, NORTH, J. D. K.

Death rates for cerebrovascular disease (stroke) in New Zealand are declining. To investigate the reasons for this decline and to measure the impact of stroke on a defined popuiation, a register of...

Blood Pressure and Migration in Children (1979)

BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, EYLES, ELAINE, PRIOR, IAN

The effect of migration on childhood blood pressure levels has been studied by comparing children before and after migration to New Zealand with children who stayed at home on the Pacific atolls of...

BLOOD PRESSURE IN TOKELAUAN CHILDREN IN TWO CONTRASTING ENVIRONMENTS (1978)

BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, EYLES, ELAINE, SALMOND, CLARE, PRIOR, IAN

To assess the influence of the environment on blood pressure levels in children, the patterns of blood pressure in Tokelauan children resident in the isolated atolls of Tokelau and in New Zealand are...

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN POLYNESIAN CHILDREN (1977)

BEAGLEHOLE, ROBERT, SALMOND, CLARE E., EYLES, ELAINE F.

Initial blood pressure readings were taken in 393 Tokelauan children aged 5–14 years resident in New Zealand. Follow-up readings were taken in 361 (92 per cent) of the original children after an...

Public health workforce: challenges and policy issues

Beaglehole, Robert, Dal Poz, Mario R

This paper reviews the challenges facing the public health workforce in developing countries and the main policy issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the public health workforce. The...

Mortality from asthma: a new epidemic in New Zealand

Jackson, Rodney T, Beaglehole, Robert, Rea, Harold H, Sutherland, David C

Trends in mortality attributed to asthma in the 5-34-year age group were examined in New Zealand, Australia, England and Wales, the United States, Canada, and West Germany for the years 1959-79. An...

Public health workforce: challenges and policy issues

Beaglehole, Robert, Dal Poz, Mario R

This paper reviews the challenges facing the public health workforce in developing countries and the main policy issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the public health workforce. The...

Mortality from asthma: a new epidemic in New Zealand

Jackson, Rodney T, Beaglehole, Robert, Rea, Harold H, Sutherland, David C

Trends in mortality attributed to asthma in the 5-34-year age group were examined in New Zealand, Australia, England and Wales, the United States, Canada, and West Germany for the years 1959-79. An...

Globalization and the Health of the Poor

Nick Drager, David Woodward, Robert Beaglehole, Debra Lipson

Nick Drager, David Woodward, Robert Beaglehole and Debra Lipson present an analytical framework for considering the effects of globalization on the health of the poor and put emphasis on the indirect...

The Future of Public Health in a Changing Global Context

Robert Beaglehole, Anthony McMichael

Robert Beaglehole and Anthony J. McMichael consider the implications of the changing global context for the future of public health. They review the current state of public health and then consider...