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Patient feedback methods - the policy actors: priorities, positions and power.
Schaler, DeborahPublished 2019-06-13Best practice patient safety policy recommends that health services use patient feedback data to guide service improvement. There is little evidence that commonly implemented patient feedback methods are fully effective ...Open AccessPresentation -
Patient feedback: the missing link in patient safety intelligence
Schaler, DeborahPublished 2017-04-11The research to be presented is a central hypothesis of a PhD research project investigating the relationship between patient feedback methods and patient safety. There is evidence that some patient feedback methods ...Open AccessPresentation -
Policy challenges of Emerging Infectious Disease: lessons from Indonesia and Thailand
Hort, KrishnaPublished 2019-06-13Control of emerging infectious diseases (EID) is a priority issue for governments in the Asia-Pacific. One Health has been identified as an effective approach to the management of EID, but brings significant policy challenges ...Open AccessPresentation -
Policy gaps in addressing social determinants of health for Australians with a disability
Green, Celia; Dickinson, Helen; Carey, GemmaPublished 2019-06-13Compared to non-disabled people, Australians with a disability have poorer health and experience greater levels of socio-economic disadvantage e.g. unemployment, housing insecurity, and social exclusion. Reducing these ...Open AccessPresentation -
Population trends and potential policy drivers of the medicalisation of birth.
Fox, Haylee; Callander, Emily; Lindsay, Daniel; Topp, StephaniePublished 2019-07-03The rising rates of obstetric interventions (1-3) have been identified as an issue in Australian maternal healthcare reform for over a decade (4-6). This concern is due to the increasing rates of morbidity and mortality ...Open AccessPresentation -
Rational use of Medicines in Public health facilities of Tamil Nadu; A Provider’s prescription analysis
Negi, Sagri; Sharma, Kartik; Mukhopadhya, Indranil; Jaswal, RichaPublished 2016-09-21The overuse, underuse or misuse of medicines results in wastage of scarce resources and widespread health hazards. Worldwide more than 50% of all medicines are prescribed, dispensed, or sold inappropriately, while 50% of ...Open AccessPresentation -
Reliability and validity of patient-reported experiences measures: A systematic review
Bull, Claudia; Byrnes, Joshua; Hettiarachchi, Ruvini; Downes, MartinPublished 2019-06-14Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are instruments used to examine patients’ experiences of healthcare services. Typically measured are care processes, such as the timeliness of service delivery. PREMs are used ...Open AccessPresentation -
Revisiting horizontal inequity of health care use in Australia
Pulok, Mohammad; van Gool, Kees; Hall, JanePublished 2017-07-27Despite the universal health insurance system in Australia, there is inequity in use of needed healthcare services, and it varies across states. Increasing reliance on private funding and fragmented provision of healthcare ...Open AccessPresentation -
The role of academic health centres in improving health equity: a systematic review
Edelman, Alex; Taylor, J; Ovseiko, P; Topp, SMPublished 2017-08-15The findings of this review are likely to offer utility to those involved in leading AHCs in multiple countries, and may also encourage policy-makers to draw AHCs further into health system reform agendas as implementation ...Open AccessOther -
Shaping policy: statistics, stakeholders and strategy
Duckett, StephenPublished 2018-08-01The Grattan Institute works to improve public policy in Australia. In this talk Stephen Duckett outlines how the Health program at Grattan does that. It will use a case study of a recent report on a tax on sugar sweetened ...Open AccessPresentation -
Study Health Policy at the University of Sydney
Huckel Schneider, Carmen; Wilson, AndrewPublished 2020-01-01Recording of a lunchtime webinar to learn more about postgraduate study in Health Policy at the University of Sydney in 2021.Open AccessAudiovisual -
Understanding the social implications of Dual Sensory Impairment in the older Australian.
Dunsmore, Moira ElizabethPublished 2019-07-03DSI refers to the presence of both vision and hearing loss and is considered a poorly defined chronic condition, particularly prevalent in the older Australian population. DSI is underdiagnosed and if left untreated or, ...Open AccessPresentation -
Unmasking the truth – protective mask use in an Emergency Department
Barratt, RuthPublished 2019-06-13Hospital transmission of pandemic respiratory infectious diseases e.g. SARS and H1N1 influenza, can be minimised by limiting the role of the healthcare worker as a vector for disease. Recommended infection prevention and ...Open AccessPresentation -
What do Millennials think of prevention policy relating to sugary drinks?
Howse, EllyPublished 2017-07-27There is little research looking at the views and attitudes of young adults (18-30 years of age) regarding policies and regulations in the area of chronic disease prevention. What research exists suggests that alcohol ...Open AccessPresentation -
Why aren’t health professionals telling us we’re fat? The role of health services in the prevention of overweight and obesity
Pearce, ClairePublished 2016-09-21A major risk factor for many chronic diseases is being obese. In Australia, rates are increasing across all age and socioeconomic groups. The causes of obesity are a complex combination of biological, environmental and ...Open AccessPresentation
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