Developing A Model Of Preventative Healthcare For People With Intellectual Disability
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,244,756.00
Summary
People with intellectual disability face stark health inequalities, die prematurely from potentially avoidable causes and experience poor access to preventative health care. Access to preventative health care is one of the key pillars of Australia's long-term national health plan. This project will find out why there are gaps in preventative health care for people with intellectual disability, determine how these gaps affect people and develop a new model of health care.
Unifying And Quality Assuring Disparate Health Silos With A Common Data Model
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$735,795.00
Summary
Australia has silos of disconnected data holdings across various domains in community, primary and secondary care settings, with disparate terminologies, data models and data quality assurance mechanisms. Mapping MedicineInsight, a national general practice data repository, to a common data model can contribute to unifying Australia's digital data assets. There are cost-efficiencies and benefits from sharing interoperable data and tools for large-scale multicentre and multisystem data analytics.
Supporting Food Companies To Implement Policies For Improving Population Nutrition
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$309,498.00
Summary
This proposal is to conduct a randomised-controlled trial to assess the effects of providing tailored support to food companies to improve their nutrition-related policies and practices. The aim of the project is to improve the healthiness of the food supply, and thereby improve population diets in Australia and New Zealand. The project will be conducted by leading international food policy experts in partnership with the Australian Government Department of Health and VicHealth.
Integration And Expansion Of A Sentinel Surveillance System To Improve Infectious Disease Outcomes For Indigenous Australians; The ATLAS Network
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,137,219.00
Summary
Infectious diseases remain a significant health issue for Indigenous Australians. Our proposal is to extend a sentinel surveillance network operating in 32 Aboriginal primary care services, with a focus on sexually transmissible infections and blood borne virsuses. By expanding, we will increase the number of sites, and add vaccine preventable diseases to the network. In doing this, we move from a surveillance system to a research network that can inform health service strategies and practice.
Control Of Neglected Tropical Diseases In The Pacific: Integration Of Programs To Increase Their Impact
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,499,801.00
Summary
Our goal is to improve programs to control neglected tropical diseases, diseases of poverty common in Australia's neighbours: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Our partners are supporting the Ministries of Health in these countries to implement integrated programs to better control these diseases. Our multidisciplinary research will use improved diagnostics, spatial mapping, health systems, social science and health economics to evaluate this integrated approach to disease control.
National Prisons Hepatitis C Education: Improving Health Literacy To Enhance Treatment Uptake
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,158,722.00
Summary
This Partnership Project will evaluate the National Prisons Hepatitis Education Program, which aims to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of healthcare providers, correctional officers, and prisoners regarding hepatitis C (HCV) and its treatment. This initiative is a key element of the national approach to achieve the World Health Organisation goal of elimination of HCV as an ongoing public health concern by 2030.
Parenting+ Improving Health And Service-use Outcomes Through Health Literacy Training For New Parents: An Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$495,761.00
Summary
The Parenting+ project will evaluate an educational program for socio-economically and culturally diverse new parents. The study will assess the impact of the program on parents' health literacy, parent and infant health and psychosocial outcomes and health service use over one year. It additionally will identify key characteristics and reproducible steps in the successful implementation of the program in order to support wider adoption by other health services.
A national collaboration to generate new knowledge, co-design, implement, evaluate and measure individual and organisational level interventions that will address key barriers to leadership across capacity, perceived capability and credibility and cultural diversity, to successful advance women in healthcare leadership. This work is highly prioritised by partners and in a policy context.
Community Health Workers Extending Care In The Community
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,004,341.00
Summary
Community Health Workers (CHW) have an important potential role in bridging the transition between hospital and community. With consumer co-researchers and our partners, we will co-design a model of CHW follow up and support care following hospitalisation. We will then conduct a trial to evaluate their implementation and impact on hospital readmission, health outcomes and value for money. With our partners, we will then translate them into policy, and practice.
A Practice Change Intervention To Increase The Routine Provision Of Care Addressing Gestational Weight Gain: A Stepped-wedge Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$734,163.00
Summary
Unhealthy weight gain during pregnancy contributes to a range of adverse outcomes for the mother and child. Despite guidelines recommending routine weighing and weight gain care be provided by antenatal services, less than 10% of health professionals provide such care, and 50-70% of women gain weight outside of recommended levels during pregnancy. This study aims to determine if a practice change intervention can increase antenatal clinician delivery of recommended gestational weight gain care.