Alex Wodak
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5547874 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alex Wodak |
| PRENOMES | Alex |
| SOBRENOME | Wodak |
| ASSINATURA | WODAK A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | St Vincent's Hospital Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0098-4225 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Dr James Rankin, a man ahead of his time
Photo from https://www.svha.org.au/news/latest/a-tribute-to-dr-jim-rankin: Drs Jim Rankin (left) and Barry Firkin in the early 1960s. (https://www.svha.org.au/news/latest/a-tribute-to-dr-jim-rankin). James Gerald D'Arcy Rankin, MBBS DMedSci (Hon)/Doctor of Medical Science, (honoris causa), University of Sydney Emeritus Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. This obituary has been developed by people whose own careers were dir…
How should nicotine vaping be regulated in Australia
In Australia, nicotine vaping products are regulated as prescription‐only medicines which can only be sold from a pharmacy, with the aim of preventing youth access and allowing use by adult smokers with a doctor's support. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has acknowledged that this policy has not achieved its goals. Instead, a thriving black market has developed which sells unregulated vape products to children and adults. Very few adult vape…
Response to commentaries on proposed regulation of nicotine vaping
Colin Mendelsohn was an unpaid board member of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association (ATHRA), a registered health promotion charity, from October 2017 to January 2021 and Alex Wodak has been an unpaid board member since October 2017. ATHRA accepted unconditional seed funding from the vape retail industry to become established. Funding ceased in March 2019. Colin Mendelsohn and Alex Wodak were Directors of ATHRA in March 2018 when it r…
Nicotine vaping was not the cause of e‐cigarette, or vaping, product use‐associated lung injury in the United States
Colin P. Mendelsohn was a Board member of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association (ATHRA), a health promotion charity, until January 2021. ATHRA received unconditional funding for establishment costs from small Australian vape businesses. Vape industry funding has not been accepted since March 2019. He is the author of a book, Stop Smoking Start Vaping. Alex Wodak is currently a board member of ATHRA. Wayne Hall has no conflicts to decl…
A critical analysis of ‘Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes
Which Regulatory Framework Is Best for Nicotine Vaping
AffiliationsColin P. Mendelsohn is from Sydney, Australia, and is unaffiliated. Alex Wodak is an emeritus consultant at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Wodak and Mendelsohn Respond
Wodak and Mendelsohn Respond Alex Wodak MBBS, and Colin P. Mendelsohn MBBS Affiliation Alex Wodak is an emeritus consultant at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Colin P. Mendelsohn is the founding chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association, Sydney, Australia.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Alex Wodak AM, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, 390 Victoria St., Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia (e-mail: alex.wodak@gmail.…
The Australian Approach to Tobacco Harm Reduction Is Even More Misguided Than the US Approach
The Australian Approach to Tobacco Harm Reduction Is Even More Misguided Than the US Approach Alex Wodak MBBS, and Colin P. Mendelsohn MBBS Affiliation Alex Wodak is an emeritus consultant at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Colin P. Mendelsohn is with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Alex Wodak AM, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney,…
Confluence of suicide and drug overdose epidemics in young Australian males
The coincidence of young male suicide and drug overdose mortality epidemics over the study period (excess deaths: 5000) suggest related causality such as exposure to common factors, including the labour market liberalisation and de-regulation of the 1990s, and deserves further investigation
Heroin use impairs smoking cessation among Australian prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry 12606000229572
Drug prohibition
Cardiovascular risk among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal smoking male prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN#12606000229572
Meth/amphetamine use and associated HIV
Tobacco in prisons
Tobacco is integrally bound up in the prison "culture". Our findings are relevant to inform prison health authorities concerned with improving the health of prisoners, and for support organisations attempting to facilitate smoking cessation both in prison and after release. Smoking cessation programmes in prisons should be tailored to the unique stresses of the prison environment. Programmes need to acknowledge the difficulties of quitting smokin…
Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs
Going soft on evidence and due process
What caused the recent reduction in heroin supply in Australia
The effectiveness and safety of syringe vending machines as a component of needle syringe programmes in community settings
Do Needle Syringe Programs Reduce HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users
This first international review of the evidence that needle syringe programs reduce HIV infection among injecting drug users found that conservative interpretation of the published data fulfills six of the nine Bradford Hill criteria (strength of association, replication of findings, temporal sequence, biological plausibility, coherence of evidence, and reasoning by analogy) and all six additional criteria (cost-effectiveness, absence of negative…
All drug politics is local
Effectiveness of sterile needle and syringe programmes
Partnering for Public Health
The international drug treaties
Developing a Medical Response to Psychostimulants
The influence of personal experiences and publications
Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To review the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia, and consider needs for further research and prevention policies and programmes. DESIGN: (1) Review of the results of surveillance for HCV; (2) review of published literature on prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for HCV among IDUs; and (3) reconstruction of incidence rates from prevalence studies of HCV in IDUs. SE…
The Australian Approach to Tobacco Harm Reduction Is Even More Misguided Than the US Approach
The Australian Approach to Tobacco Harm Reduction Is Even More Misguided Than the US Approach Alex Wodak MBBS, and Colin P. Mendelsohn MBBS Affiliation Alex Wodak is an emeritus consultant at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Colin P. Mendelsohn is with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Alex Wodak AM, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney,…
Health, HIV Infection, Human Rights, and Injecting Drug Use
he epidemic of AIDS was first recognized in the 1980s. AIDS was soon shown to result from sexual or bloodto-blood transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In response to this epidemic, some called for draconian measures directed at populations deemed to be at highest risk arguing that this was a traditional public health approach to epidemics spread by dangerous microorganisms. Few were persuaded by this argument. An alternative ap…
Partnering for Public Health
Differences across sexual orientation on HIV risk behaviours in injecting drug users
Injecting drug users (IDUs) play a disproportionate role in the spread of HIV given their injecting and sexual contacts, and thereby act as conduits between these risk groups. We investigated differences in risk behaviour and HIV seroprevalence in a Sydney sample of 1,245 IDUs. Significant differences were observed across sexual orientation in HIV serostatus for males, with homosexual men having the highest HIV seroprevalence rate (35%), bisexual…
Controlling HIV Infection Behind Bars
(1992). Controlling HIV Infection Behind Bars: Questions, Strategies and Obstacles. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 28-36
Significant relationships and social supports of injecting drug users and their implications for HIV/Aids services
Strong social support networks have been associated with positive outcomes for health and well-being throughout the life-cycle. This paper investigates the structural and functional nature of social support networks of 100 injecting drug users (IDUs) in Sydney and the implications for HIV/AIDS services. Using a modified ISEL respondents saw support in terms of its tangibility of people and support, in terms of an appraisal of having friends, and …
HIV infection among injecting drug users in Asia
Injecting drug use is being reported from an increasing number of Asian and other Third World countries. HIV continues to spread globally among and from populations of injecting drug users (IDUs), although the rate of spread appears to have slowed down recently in some industrialized countries. Asia produces two-thirds of the world's supply of opium. In recent years the rapid development of new illicit drug trade routes in efforts to evade detect…
Drug users' self-reported false-positive HIV status
Drug users' self-reported false-positive HIV status. M W Ross, W Loxley, A Wodak, A Buzolic, B Monheit, and A StoweCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.9.1349-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
Conditions and diseases other than cardiovascular associated with moderate alcohol consumption
Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To review the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia, and consider needs for further research and prevention policies and programmes. DESIGN: (1) Review of the results of surveillance for HCV; (2) review of published literature on prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for HCV among IDUs; and (3) reconstruction of incidence rates from prevalence studies of HCV in IDUs. SE…
Health, HIV Infection, Human Rights, and Injecting Drug Use
he epidemic of AIDS was first recognized in the 1980s. AIDS was soon shown to result from sexual or bloodto-blood transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In response to this epidemic, some called for draconian measures directed at populations deemed to be at highest risk arguing that this was a traditional public health approach to epidemics spread by dangerous microorganisms. Few were persuaded by this argument. An alternative ap…
Developing a Medical Response to Psychostimulants
The influence of personal experiences and publications
The international drug treaties
Partnering for Public Health
Effectiveness of sterile needle and syringe programmes
Do Needle Syringe Programs Reduce HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users
This first international review of the evidence that needle syringe programs reduce HIV infection among injecting drug users found that conservative interpretation of the published data fulfills six of the nine Bradford Hill criteria (strength of association, replication of findings, temporal sequence, biological plausibility, coherence of evidence, and reasoning by analogy) and all six additional criteria (cost-effectiveness, absence of negative…
All drug politics is local
Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs
Going soft on evidence and due process
What caused the recent reduction in heroin supply in Australia
The effectiveness and safety of syringe vending machines as a component of needle syringe programmes in community settings
Tobacco in prisons
Tobacco is integrally bound up in the prison "culture". Our findings are relevant to inform prison health authorities concerned with improving the health of prisoners, and for support organisations attempting to facilitate smoking cessation both in prison and after release. Smoking cessation programmes in prisons should be tailored to the unique stresses of the prison environment. Programmes need to acknowledge the difficulties of quitting smokin…
Meth/amphetamine use and associated HIV
Cardiovascular risk among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal smoking male prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN#12606000229572
Drug prohibition
Heroin use impairs smoking cessation among Australian prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry 12606000229572
Confluence of suicide and drug overdose epidemics in young Australian males
The coincidence of young male suicide and drug overdose mortality epidemics over the study period (excess deaths: 5000) suggest related causality such as exposure to common factors, including the labour market liberalisation and de-regulation of the 1990s, and deserves further investigation
Medicine (29 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (13 obras) · Environmental health (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras) · Public health (10 obras) · Business (9 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (8 obras)