Browsing Emerging Health Policy Research Conference (Annual) by publication year
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Catastrophic health care expenditure and finacial risk protection among households of Udupi district; South India
Published 2016-09-21In a country like India where the health care delivery is privately driven (72%) and only 25% of the population is formally covered by some form of health insurance, the patients have to make the payments out of their ...Open AccessPresentation -
Knowledge brokers and rapid reviews: what do they do and how do they do it?
Published 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 -
Jurisdictional scans in policy making: A critical interpretive synthesis
Published 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 -
Missed Opportunity - Under-funding Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services makes closing the gaps less likely
Published 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 -
Why aren’t health professionals telling us we’re fat? The role of health services in the prevention of overweight and obesity
Published 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 -
Rational use of Medicines in Public health facilities of Tamil Nadu; A Provider’s prescription analysis
Published 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 -
Geographical Hot Spot Analysis of ATAPS for Policy Planning
Published 2017-03-10Studies on equity of mental health referrals have used qualitative approaches or service utilisation data, however little information is available on spatial equity. The Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) ...Open AccessPresentation -
Patient feedback: the missing link in patient safety intelligence
Published 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 -
Media framing of preventive health A scoping review
Published 2017-04-11How have issues related to disease prevention been framed within the news media and how effective are different message frames?Open AccessPresentation -
Operationalising ‘dose’ in public health interventions A scoping review
Published 2017-04-11How has ‘dose’ been defined and operationalized across a range of health promotion/disease prevention interventions?Open AccessPresentation -
What do Millennials think of prevention policy relating to sugary drinks?
Published 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 -
How do health services view their role in the prevention of obesity?
Published 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 -
Revisiting horizontal inequity of health care use in Australia
Published 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 healthiness of food and beverage advertising on Sydney train stations: regulation and policy implications
Published 2017-07-27The results of this study highlight the inadequacy of Australia’s voluntary self-regulatory system in protecting train commuters from exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising. Regulatory action by state government, ...Open AccessPresentation -
Debates About Accelerated Access to Medicines: Reality or Rhetoric?
Published 2017-07-27The current discourse surrounding accelerated access to medicines is an emotive one that is placing increased pressure on policy makers to both register and fund medicines even when there are significant questions about ...Open AccessPresentation -
Marginalising Health Information: Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement for Alcohol Labelling
Published 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 -
The Discursive Dynamics of Changing Health Policy
Published 2017-07-28Primary health policy is discursively informed and includes complex intersections between multiple actors and institutions. To establish legitimacy and get traction for change at the local level support is needed from the ...Open AccessPresentation -
The role of academic health centres in improving health equity: a systematic review
Published 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 -
Access to Dental Services for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Published 2017-08-15Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) have poorer oral health than the general population. Evidence shows these children are at a disadvantage in accessing dental services due to barriers that ...Open AccessOther -
Shaping policy: statistics, stakeholders and strategy
Published 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