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Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society

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BA (La Trobe)
Grad Dip Soc (La Trobe)
MSc (Swinburne)

 

 

Paul Agius - Research Fellow

Disciplinary expertise

Sociology, quantitative methodology, survey methodology, database design, management and programming.   

Broad approach

Social and health research involving both cross-sectional and panel data, and the social and behavioural aspects of both adult and young people’s sexual health.     

Current projects
 

Secondary schools and sexual health

Publications

 

Agius, P., Pitts, M. K., Dyson, S.,Mitchell, A.M. and Smith, A.M.A.‘Pregnancy and Contraceptive use in a National Sample of Australian Secondary School Students’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 30(6): 555–557 (2006).

Agius P.A, Dyson S., Pitts M., Mitchell A., Smith A.M.A, ‘Two steps forward and one step back? Australian secondary students’ sexual health knowledge and behaviors 1992–2002’, Journal of Adolescent Health 38(3): 247-252 (2006).

Holden, Carol A., Robert I. McLachlan, Marian Pitts, Robert Cumming, Gary Wittert, Paul A. Agius, David J. Handelsman, and David M. de Kretser. "Men in Australia Telephone Survey (MATES): a national survey of the reproductive health and concerns of middle-aged and older Australian men." The Lancet 366.9481 (July 16, 2005): 218(7).

McNair R., Kavanagh A.M., Agius P., Tong B. ‘The mental health status of young adult and mid-life non-heterosexual Australian women’. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 29(3): 265-271 (2005).

Smith A.M.A, Agius P.A, Dyson S., Mitchell A., Pitts M. Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2002 Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne (2003).

Duckett SJ & Agius PA. Performance of diagnosis-based risk adjustment measures in a population of sick Australians. Australian and NZ Journal of Public Health 26(6): 500-507 (2002).

Agius P., Graetz B., Byrne M. , Duckett S.J., Milligan, F., Powell, B., ‘Lessons Learnt: Quantitative Data Management for the National Evaluation of the Coordinated Care Trials’ in Australian Coordinated Care Trials: Reflections and lessons. Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra (2001).

Graetz B., Byrne M., Duckett S.J., Agius P. , Milligan, F., ‘Managing Quantitative Data Requirements for the National Evaluation of Coordinated Care Trials’. Chapter 16. pp. 209-221 in Australian Coordinated Care Trials: Methodological issues in trial design and evaluation. Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra (1999).

Contact details

email: p.agius@latrobe.edu.au

Tel: (03) 9285 5169

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