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Horizontal inequity in healthcare utilisation within the Indigenous Australians
Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; van Gool, Kees; Hall, JanePublished 2019-06-14The objective of this study is to examine and measure the extent of income-related horizontal inequity (unequal use of healthcare services for equal medical need) among the Indigenous Australians. This study also aims to ...Open AccessPresentation -
How do health services view their role in the prevention of obesity?
Pearce, ClairePublished 2017-07-27A major risk factor for many chronic diseases is being obese. The role of general practice in obesity prevention is well described and there is emerging evidence regarding interventions that could be incorporated into other ...Open AccessPresentation -
How important is ‘implementation science’ for national genomics policy?
Gul, Hossai; Long, Janet; Best, Stephanie; Braithwaite, JeffreyPublished 2019-06-14The traditional translation pathway of ‘bench- to-bedside’ will not be enough to integrate genomics into routine clinical care. It requires the use of validated and systematic ‘implementation science’ methods. Within the ...Open AccessOther -
The Impact of the Obesity Paradigm on the Role of Health Services in Prevention
Pearce, Claire; Wilson, Andrew; Rychetnik, LuciePublished 2019-07-03A major risk factor for many chronic diseases is being obese. Obesity prevention is not routinely integrated into health services due to practical barriers such as time and cost. Barriers also exist due to individual ...Open AccessPresentation -
Jurisdictional scans in policy making: A critical interpretive synthesis
Kilian, Alexandra; Nidumolu, Aditya; Lavis, JohnPublished 2016-09-21Jurisdictional scans are used as governmental decisionmaking tools to understand how problems have been framed in other jurisdictions, to compare and evaluate options based on action taken in other jurisdictions, and to ...Open AccessPresentation -
Knowledge brokers and rapid reviews: what do they do and how do they do it?
Moore, Gai; Redman, Sally; Butow, PhyllisPublished 2016-09-21Knowledge brokering is a strategy frequently utilised to increase interaction between policymakers and researchers and build capacity for research. The Sax Institute uses knowledge brokers in one-off brief interventions ...Open AccessPresentation -
Marginalising Health Information: Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement for Alcohol Labelling
O’Brien, PaulaPublished 2017-07-27In 2010, the World Health Organization published the Global Alcohol Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol, with one of its recommendations being the ‘labelling [of] alcoholic beverages to indicate… the harm related ...Open AccessPresentation -
Media framing of preventive health A scoping review
Rowbotham, SamPublished 2017-04-11How have issues related to disease prevention been framed within the news media and how effective are different message frames?Open AccessPresentation -
Missed Opportunity - Under-funding Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services makes closing the gaps less likely
Coombs, DavidPublished 2016-09-21Since 1971 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services have understood health as more than just the physical absence of disease in individuals. For ACCHSs, health involves: “the social, emotional and cultural well‐being ...Open AccessPresentation -
Modelling equity impact of obesity interventions: A health economic approach
Killedar, Anagha; Tan, Andrew; Lung, Thomas; Hayes, AlisonPublished 2019-06-14Twenty-five percent of Australian children are overweight or obese, and there are distinct socioeconomic inequalities in this distribution. Despite a large variety of obesity prevention and treatment interventions in ...Open AccessPresentation -
Modelling equity impact of obesity interventions: A health economic approach
Killedar, Anagha; Tan, Andrew; Lung, Thomas; Hayes, AlisonPublished 2019-06-14Twenty-five percent of Australian children are overweight or obese, and there are distinct socioeconomic inequalities in this distribution. Despite a large variety of obesity prevention and treatment interventions in ...Open AccessPresentation -
Mutuality in policy making: the ethical experiences and intuitions of doctors who engage in policy concerned with health care resource allocation
Gallagher, SiunPublished 2019-07-03Doctors play an integral part in health care priority setting at the macro (system) level. Although they have the potential to influence resource distributions, the values and ethical commitments doctors bring to macroallocation ...Open AccessOther -
News Media Framing of the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax Debate
Lisa DunnPublished 2019-06-13Media coverage of health policy debates has an important impact on public and political understanding and attitudes towards intervention. In 2016 the UK announced a tax on sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) to tackle the ...Open AccessPresentation -
Operationalising ‘dose’ in public health interventions A scoping review
Rowbotham, SamPublished 2017-04-11How has ‘dose’ been defined and operationalized across a range of health promotion/disease prevention interventions?Open AccessPresentation -
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
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