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The Busselton Population Medical Research
Foundation also has a site hosted with the UWA School of
Population Health, which is geared towards scientists and
researchers using the Health Study data.
http://bsn.uwa.edu.au
The Busselton Health Studies
group is a research group within the
School of Population Health
at the University of Western Australia.
The group is responsible for
managing and maintaining the database of the
Busselton Health Studies,
including annual mortality followup, periodic hospital
morbidity updates, tracing of previous survey participants and
improving information on family relationships among survey
participants.
The group, independently and in
collaboration with other Busselton Health Studies researchers,
uses the accumulated data to conduct research into:
·
the
epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases
·
the
epidemiology of respiratory diseases
·
mortality and hospital admission rates
·
familial aggregation of chronic diseases and disease risk
factors
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