School of Population Health
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If you would like more information, please contact Dr Jane Heyworth.
Environmental Epidemiology
The emphasis of the Environmental Epidemiology Program is to apply existing knowledge to reduce exposure of particular populations to known risk factors for cancer and to improve the clinical management of patients in whom cancer has developed.
The program concentrates on the most common cancers in the Australian community, namely, those of the lung, breast, bowel, skin and prostate.
The School's long tradition of descriptive and aetiological studies also continues in the occupational and environmental epidemiology group in relation to lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Publications
Retesting of Lead and Nickel Levels in Rainwater Tanks at Esperance, 2008:
- Heyworth, J,Glonek, G, Maynard, EJ, Baghurst, PS, Finlay-Jones J 2006 Consumption of untreated tank rainwater and gastroenteritis in young children in South Australia, International Journal of Epidemiology, 35: 1051-1058 IF 4.045
- Iacopetta, B, Heyworth, J, Girschik, J, Grieu, F, Clayforth, C, Fritschi, L 2009 The MTHFR C677T and DNMT3B C-149T polymorphisms confer different risks for right- and left-sided colorectal cancers, International Journal of Cancer accepted January 2009. IF 4.555
- Reid, A, Heyworth, J, de Klerk, NH, Musk, AW 2008 Cancer Incidence among women and girls environmentally and occupationally exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom, Western Australia, International Journal of Cancer,122(10): 2337- 44 IF 4.555
- Eakin, E, Youlden, DR, Baade, PD, Lawler, SP, Reeves, MM, Heyworth, JS, Fritschi, L 2006 Health status of long-term cancer survivors: Results from an Australian population-based sample, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 15 (10): 1969-76. IF 4.642
- Heyworth, J, Cutt, H, Glonek, G 2006 Does dog or cat ownership lead to increased gastroenteritis in young children in South Australia?, Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 134, 926-934. IF 1.674
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