Tarun Weeramanthri

Biographic Data

ID247467
NAMETarun Weeramanthri
GIVEN NAMESTarun
FAMILY NAMEWeeramanthri
SIGNATUREWEERAMANTHRI T
AFFILIATIONSGovernment of Western Australia Department of Health
ORCID0000-0003-2796-7345
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Positioning food standards programmes to protect public health

    Open AccessMark Lawrence, Carl Pollard et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective To assess current performance and identify opportunities and reforms necessary for positioning a food standards programme to help protect public health against dietary risk factors. Design A case study design in which a food standards programme’s public health protection performance was analysed against an adapted Donabedian model for assessing health-care quality. The criteria were the food standards programme’s structure (governance a…

  • High rates of albuminuria but not of low eGFR in Urban Indigenous Australians

    Open AccessLouise Maple-Brown, Louise J Maple-Brown et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Given the significant excess of ESKD observed in Indigenous versus non-Indigenous Australians, these findings could suggest either: albuminuria may be a better prognostic marker of kidney disease than low eGFR; that eGFR equations may be inaccurate in the Indigenous population; a less marked differential between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for ESKD rates in urban compared to remote regions; or that differences in the pathophysiology…

  • New tools for an old trade

    Open AccessManfried Dietrich, David Peiris et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2011Cited by: 2References: 28

    This article explores Australian general practitioners' (GPs) views on a novel electronic decision support (EDS) tool being developed for cardiovascular disease management. We use Timmermans and Berg's technology-in-practice approach to examine how technologies influence and are influenced by the social networks in which they are placed. In all, 21 general practitioners who piloted the tool were interviewed. The tool occupied an ill-defined middl…

  • Abdominal obesity and other risk factors largely explain the high CRP in Indigenous Australians relative to the general population, but not gender differences

    Open AccessAllison M Hodge, Allison Hodge et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    High concentrations of CRP in Indigenous participants were largely explained by other risk factors, in particular abdominal obesity. Irrespective of its independence as a risk factor, or its aetiological association with coronary heart disease (CHD), the high CRP levels in urban Indigenous women are likely to reflect increased vascular and metabolic risk. The significance of elevated CRP in Indigenous Australians should be investigated in future …

  • Socioeconomic status and diabetes among urban Indigenous Australians aged 15–64 years in the DRUID study

    Joan Cunningham, Kerin O’dea et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2007Cited by: 5

    The relationship between SES and diabetes among Indigenous Australians in this study is consistent with the patterns observed in developed countries, rather than those in some developing countries

  • Study Protocol – Diabetes and related conditions in urban Indigenous people in the Darwin, Australia region

    Open AccessJoan Cunningham, Kerin O’dea et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2006

    Despite lower than anticipated recruitment, this is, to our knowledge, the largest study ever conducted on the health of Indigenous Australians living in urban areas, a group which comprises the majority of Australia's Indigenous population but about whose health and wellbeing relatively little is known. The study is well-placed to provide new information that can be used by policy makers and service providers to improve the delivery of services …

  • Ethnicity Not Race

    Open AccessTarun WeeramanthriARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2000References: 18

    This article presents an argument, from a public health perspective, against the use of the term ‘race’ and for its replacement by the term ‘ethnicity’. Historically, the rise of the race concept in society was dependent on its undeserved status as an objective scientific and biological category and was associated with strategies of exclusion and political domination. Mainstream science played a key role in the rise of the race concept but has si…

  • Practice Guidelines for Health Professionals Dealing with Death in the Northern Territory Aboriginal Australian Population

    Tarun WeeramanthriARTICLEMortality1998

    This article summarizes the content of recently developed guidelines for health professionals dealing with death in the Northern Territory Aboriginal Australian population. An account is given of the stimulus for the guidelines, the applied research context (the Adult Aboriginal Mortality Project) in which the guidelines were developed, and their initial reception by service providers. The guidelines deal with the time of death and afterwards, wh…

  • Painting a Leonardo with finger paint

    Open AccessTarun WeeramanthriARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1997References: 8