No smoker left behind: it's time to tackle tobacco in Australian priority populations

Bonevski, Billie; Borland, Ron; Paul, Christine; Richmond, Robyn; Farrell, Michael; Baker, Amanda; Gartner, Coral; Lawn, Sharon; Thomas, D.; Walker, Natalie

doi:10.5694/mja16.01425

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“…For example, smoking has been part of the cultural fabric of mental health care for many decades, and addressing it has been largely neglected (Bonevski et al . ). The results of this audit confirm this trend with virtually no evidence of support for smoking cessation evident from the case‐note audit.…”

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Hidden care: Revelations of a case‐note audit of physical health care in a community mental health service

Lawn

Zabeen

Rowlands

et al. 2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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People with severe mental illness (SMI) are widely reported to be at an increased risk of morbidity and premature death due to physical health conditions. Mental health nurses are ideally placed to address physical and mental health comorbidity as part of their day-to-day practice. This study involved an audit of hardcopy and electronic clinical case-notes of a random sample of 100 people with SMI case managed by community mental health service in metropolitan South Australia, to determine how well physical health conditions and risk factors, screening, and follow-up are recorded within their service records. Every contact between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016 was read. One-way ANOVA, Scheffe's test, and Fisher's exact test determined any significant associations across audit variables, which included gender, age, income, living arrangement, diagnosis, lifestyle factors, recording of physical health measures, and carer status. A focus on physical health care was evident from everyday case-note records; however, because this information was 'buried' within the plethora of entries and not brought to the fore with other key information about the person's psychiatric needs, it remained difficult to gain a full picture of potential gaps in physical health care for this population. Under-reporting, gaps and inconsistencies in the systematic recording of physical health information for this population are likely to undermine the quality of care they receive from mental health services, the ability of mental health service providers to respond in a timely way to their physical healthcare needs, and their communication with other healthcare providers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Hidden care: Revelations of a case‐note audit of physical health care in a community mental health service

Lawn

Zabeen

Rowlands

et al. 2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…It would enable accurate estimates of smoking prevalence for small geographical areas and small sub‐populations. This is becoming of increasing value, as smoking is increasingly concentrated in disadvantaged groups, and as tobacco control needs to increasingly use more finely targeted methods, as opposed to blanket approaches 11 . For example, most of the funding for the national Tackling Indigenous Smoking program is spent on 37 regional teams 12 .…”

Section: Lessons From Smoking Questions In the New Zealand Censusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Should a smoking question be added to the Australian 2021 census?

Thomas

Scollo

2018

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…But the current push to popularise e‐cigarettes, which accelerate progression to smoking 3‐ to 4‐fold, 20 threatens this opportunity. The epidemiology of smoking has changed in Australia, and will change in Asia, but new strategies for targeting residual pockets of smokers are being developed 21 . Further, it may be time for Australia to consider regulating how and where tobacco is sold, as discussed in this issue of the MJA 22 .…”

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“…The epidemiology of smoking has changed in Australia, and will change in Asia, but new strategies for targeting residual pockets of smokers are being developed. 21 Further, it may be time for Australia to consider regulating how and where tobacco is sold, as discussed in this issue of the MJA. 22 Whether it would be feasible to take legal action against the tobacco industry to recover health care costs is another interesting question.…”

Section: Not All Doom and Gloommentioning

confidence: 99%