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Bridging The Gap: Translating Childhood Obesity Prevention Policy Into Clinical Practice
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$132,743.00
Summary
Healthcare providers are well placed to identify children at risk of obesity. This research aims to understand how health services are currently incorporating childhood obesity prevention into clinical practice, identify opportunities to incorporate obesity prevention policy within these services and determine how practical, systematic and feasible changes can be implemented. Ultimately this research will contribute to the efforts to decrease the rates of childhood obesity in Australia.
Leveraging Big Data To Assess Medicines Safety In Australia
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$91,538.00
Summary
The aim of this project is to leverage routinely collected, linked population-level data to generate high calibre evidence on the safety and effectiveness of commonly used prescription medicines in Australia. The results of this work will promote quality use of medicines, reduce medicine-related harms, and directly support medicines policy and decision-making in Australia.
Cancer disparities exist between rural and metropolitan patients. Inferior survival outcomes are reported for rural residents, which can amount to a 7% difference in 5-year survival proportions. Factors implicated include: socio-economic disadvantage, limited access to specialist services, later diagnosis, and poorer treatment. Little is known about the decision-making process of patients. This research project examines patients’ preferences for cancer treatment, and whether there are difference ....Cancer disparities exist between rural and metropolitan patients. Inferior survival outcomes are reported for rural residents, which can amount to a 7% difference in 5-year survival proportions. Factors implicated include: socio-economic disadvantage, limited access to specialist services, later diagnosis, and poorer treatment. Little is known about the decision-making process of patients. This research project examines patients’ preferences for cancer treatment, and whether there are differences depending on geographical location.Read moreRead less
Implementing Safewards In Victoria: Evaluating Acceptability And Outcomes For Consumers And Staff
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$81,802.00
Summary
Safewards is a theory and specific strategies for inpatient mental health services, intended to create a safer and more supportive environment. Safewards was trialled in Victorian wards, this project will utilise the information collected in the trial. It aims to understand the impact of the implementation of Safewards from the perspectives of consumers and staff. Ultimately my research will provide evidence about the appropriateness of Safewards in Victorian mental health inpatient services.
Strengthening Health Systems Through The Use Of Process Evaluations Of Complex Interventions
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$61,383.00
Summary
A strong primary health care is vital to improve health and health equity globally. This is pertinent in a growing age of non-communicable diseases for which there is effective prevention strategies available. It is important to understand for whom, how and why these strategies can work in a primary health care setting (such as better understanding patients' and health providers' perspectives) through process evaluations. Research to build on process evaluation methods is crucial.
Eye Banks, Exports, And Australian Opinion: Exploring National Utility Of Human Corneal Tissue Donation
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$111,973.00
Summary
Human corneal tissue donations from the deceased can outstrip the demand of eye tissue from ophthalmologists to perform a corneal transplantation, a surgical procedure to treat blindness. This research will determine the quantity of surplus eye tissue, and community understanding of donation and support for exportation. This will help the sector with decision-making on management of oversupply and potential exporte to other countries in need.
Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) In Pregnancy: Challenges Of Health Service Provision
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$38,552.00
Summary
The burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in pregnancy can be significant and in Australia is mostly confined to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. This study explores the barriers to timely diagnosis and best practice care for pregnant women with RHD, through 1) a study of reporting and health information systems related to RHD in pregnancy; and 2) an examination of health professionals’ knowledge, experiences of and attitudes to provision of care for pregnant women with RHD.
Personality disorders are serious psychiatric disorders. Despite this, the prevalence of these disorders in the Australian community is largely unknown, as is their influence on physical and other mental health conditions and impact on Australia’s medical and mental health care services. This epidemiological study will answer these questions, with the aim of informing public health planning and service delivery practices and prompting future health economic research in this area.
I am a paediatrician with experience in tropical medicine in northern Australia, the Solomon Islands and Fiji. The prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Pacific, including Indigenous children in Australia, is amongst the highest in the world, and my project will investigate ways to reduce the burden of this disease. I will examine population screening with echocardiography (ultrasound) to detect the disease before children become sick, and investigate ways to improve patient management.
A Co-Designed Patient-Centred Model-of-Care For Gestational Diabetes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$128,224.00
Summary
Gestational diabetes affects more than 1 in 10 women and is becoming more common. It increases the risk of complications to the pregnancy and may also adversely affect the future health of the mother and her children. There has been little prior research into the best system of education and pregnancy care for women with gestational diabetes. We will work with these women to develop an innovative model for pregnancy care that provides individualised guidance to impact health positively.