Browsing Emerging Health Policy Research Conference (Annual) by Title

Access to Dental Services for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Ummer-Christian, Rahila (2017-08-15)

Children 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 ...

Age, time and health limit: what hours should older workers work?

Doan, Jimmy; Strazdins, Lyndall; Do, Thuy; LaBond, Christine; Butterworth, Peter; Timmins, Perri (2019-07-03)

The current policy aims at raising older worker participation and retirement age. Fast changing in workforce raises questions on what work hours could and should be for older workers. Will older workers be able to work in ...

Analysis of Harm Minimisation policy: a Brazil and Australia case study

Rocha, Vitor Moraes (2019-06-28)

Historically, in 1985 Kings Cross (KC) (Sydney, Australia) and the Harbour District (HD) (Santos, Brazil) had both the highest prevalence of blood-borne virus infection (BBVI) among injected drug users (IDU) in the country. ...

Catastrophic health care expenditure and finacial risk protection among households of Udupi district; South India

Jaswal, Richa; Krishna, Anil; mayya, Sreemati (2016-09-21)

In 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 ...

Challenges in delivering optimal care for low back pain in Nepal

Sharma, Sweekriti (2019-06-13)

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Delivering optimal healthcare for LBP is particularly challenging in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Community boundary spanning and health- accessing the ‘hardly reached’

Wallace, Carolyn; Farmer, Jane; McCosker, Anthony (2019-06-13)

Health services face the policy challenge to effectively engage with community members who are ‘hardly reached’ by services and are known to have a poorer health status compared to the general population. This study explores ...

Comparability of online out-of-pocket tools from Australian private health funds

Chalmers, Kelsey; Elshaug, Adam; Larkin, Shaun (2019-06-28)

Privately insured patients face highly variable out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for inpatient admissions. Three of Australia’s largest private health insurance (PHI) funds have therefore developed online OOP cost estimator tools ...

Conceptualizing oral health care systems for comparative analysis – public, private and statutory

Jaswal, Richa; Huckel Schneider, Carmen; Eberhard, Joerg (2019-06-28)

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 put the worldwide figure at 15 million disability adjusted life years due to oral health disorders considerably varying across countries. Epidemiological factors like Socio-demographics, ...

Consumer Perspectives of Accelerated Access to Medicines: A Mixed-Methods Study

Pace, Jessica (2019-07-03)

There are increasing concerns about the ability of current systems to provide timely access to medicines; a number of policy approaches have been suggested to address these. Such initiatives may provide patients with a ...

Creating a policy mapping tool for early childhood obesity prevention in Australian states and territories

Esdaile, Emma; Wen, Li Ming; Baur, Louise; Rissel, Chris (2019-06-13)

Childhood obesity is an internationally recognised public health problem. The prevention of obesity is complex, it requires a systematic approach across all sectors of government. Policy represents the intention of a ...

Dealing with complaints against doctors without causing further harm

van Ekert, Elizabeth (2019-07-17)

Complaints can create morbidity, defensive practice, loss of trust and confidence in doctors. These effects impact on the doctor, on colleagues, family and patients, the latter due to loss of trust and because a distracted, ...

Debates About Accelerated Access to Medicines: Reality or Rhetoric?

Pace, Jessica (University of Sydney, 2017-07-27)

The 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 ...

The Discursive Dynamics of Changing Health Policy

Harpur, Siobhan (2017-07-28)

Primary 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 ...

Evolving concepts of health system governance: implications for research and policy

Hort, Krishna (2019-07-03)

Governance was included as one of the health system building blocks by WHO, with a focus on the steering and direction of the health system. Research has tended towards defining and measuring scales of ‘good governance’. ...

Geographical Hot Spot Analysis of ATAPS for Policy Planning

Maas, Cailin; Salinas, JA; Fernandez, A; Salvador-Carulla, L (2017-03-10)

Studies 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) ...

Getting over the blues from the rush on poppers

Brown, Jared; Cossar, Reece; Ryan, Therese; Peacock, Amy; Sutherland, Rachel; Lynch, Ann-Maree; Robinson, Jeff; Wylie, Carol; Dietze, Paul; Cairns, Rose (2019-07-03)

Alkyl nitrite inhalants (eg amyl) have become commonly used recreational drugs, particularly among LGBTIQ+ communities to facilitate receptive anal intercourse (26-46% of gay men ). It is also used more generally as a ...

Harm Minimisation Drug Policy Implementation with Australian Injecting Drug Users

Resiak, Danielle; Mpofu, Elias (2018-10-23)

National health care policies are important for defining the vision, priorities, budgetary decisions and actions for improving and maintaining the health of a countries people. Yet in order for a countries health care ...

Healthcare managers’ felt financial accountability, feedback process, commitment, and performance: Evidence from an Italian healthcare provider

Hoque, Zahirul; Macinati, Manuela; Rizzo, Marco Giovanni (2019-07-19)

Accountability is a crucial issue in the public and private sectors and its nature varies between contexts and across levels. In healthcare organizations, accountability at individual level has received increasing attention ...

The healthiness of food and beverage advertising on Sydney train stations: regulation and policy implications

Sainsbury, Emma; Colagiuri, Stephen; Magnusson, Roger (University of Sydney, 2017-07-27)

The 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 ...

Historical development of and paradigm shifts in public health nutrition

Ridgway, Ella; Lawrence, Mark; Woods, Julie; Baker, Phil (2019-06-14)

There is a bi-directional relationship between public health nutrition (PHN) and the environmental sustainability (ES) of food systems. Dietary guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for healthy eating. There ...