Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Future Tobacco Control Strategies
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$368,112.00
Summary
This research will evaluate promising new strategies to reduce the harm caused by tobacco, the leading preventable cause of premature death in Australia. This includes evaluation of general population-based strategies, such as public smoking bans, and interventions to help smokers quit smoking, such as new cessation aids and long-term maintenance on pharmaceutical nicotine or low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco.
The FREEDOM Study: A RCT Of Sunlight And Calcium To Reduce Vitamin D Deficiency In Older People In Residential Care
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$838,972.00
Summary
The proposed study emanates from a large ongoing epidemiological study on falls and fractures in the elderly (the FREE study). Falls and fractures are major problems in the elderly. This is the genesis for the FREEDOM (Falls Risk Epidemiology: Effect of vitamin D on skeletal Outcomes and other Measures) intervention study. The FREEDOM study will evaluate the effect of a public health strategy to reduce falls and fractures in older people living in residential care (namely appropriate sun light e ....The proposed study emanates from a large ongoing epidemiological study on falls and fractures in the elderly (the FREE study). Falls and fractures are major problems in the elderly. This is the genesis for the FREEDOM (Falls Risk Epidemiology: Effect of vitamin D on skeletal Outcomes and other Measures) intervention study. The FREEDOM study will evaluate the effect of a public health strategy to reduce falls and fractures in older people living in residential care (namely appropriate sun light exposure and calcium supplementation) in a randomised trial. The primary endpoints of this study will be reduction in falls and change in vitamin D levels. Other endpoints will be change in motor function, mood, bone turnover and fracture incidence. The proposed public health strategy to be examined is readily transferable to routine practice and would have very good feasibility for easy implementation and are generally applicable to the residential care setting, where the study will be conducted. Moreover the proposed approach would be low in cost and does not depend on other health system input. Potentially large numbers of people would benefit from the better understanding of simple methods of securing improved vitamin D status.Read moreRead less