Deposit H11 - Public Health Association of Australia deposit

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AU NBAC H11

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Public Health Association of Australia deposit

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  • 1968 - 1998 (Creation)

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72 boxes

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(1968 - 1986)

Biographical history

The Australian Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health was formed in 1968 and added New Zealand to its name in c. 1978. For the period 1981 up to the formation of the Public Health Association in 1986, a joint title was used: Australian and New Zealand Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health/Australian Public Health Association.

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(1986 -)

Biographical history

The Public Health Association of Australia aims to encourage research and promote knowledge in the wider community of the economic, social and environmental factors affecting public health. It is a successor to the Australian and New Zealand Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health /Australian Public Health Association. Its major activities are advocacy for the betterment of public health, holding conferences on epidemiology, immunisation and other public health issues, and producing the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Before 2001 its name was the Public Health Association.

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Minutes and meeting papers, annual reports, correspondence files, project files, conference and workshop files, membership records, audio and videotape recordings of conferences, video recordings of television programs, and printed material.

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Entered from deposit description 23 November 2012

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