ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100195

Funded Activity Summary

A critical public health examination of complementary self-medication in later life in indigenous, non-indigenous and CALD communities. This project aims to provide the first in-depth coordinated critical public health examination of an unregulated and 'covert' area of health and treatment seeking behaviour - complementary self-medication (CAM SM) use in later life. It will focus on healthy ageing and living with chronic illness and draw upon fieldwork with Indigenous, non-Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. This project aims to identify the challenges of, and possibilities for, 'covert' CAM SM use in later life. It will provide an evidence-base to inform safe, effective care and policy for older Australians and generate novel analyses to provide significant advances and new directions for public health scholarship with regards to chronic illness and community health in later life.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-04-2015

End Date: 31-03-2019

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $952,642.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | Public Health and Health Services

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Carer Health | Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified | Health not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Carer Health | Health not elsewhere classified | Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified | Public Health and Health Services | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

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