Projects
This was an exploratory study investigating the current utilisation patterns of oral health services provided in SESLHD. The used existing data sets available through the SESLHD Oral Health Service and the Centre for Oral Health Strategy to determine changes to service use related to recent initiatives, patterns of service utilisation and issues of access for a range of high risk population...
This project consisted of a literature review of the evidence available for overweight and obesity among refugee and migrant adolescent populations who have recently arrived in their resettlement country. ...
The project will focus on the experiences and perspectives of PWSMI and what has helped or enabled them to establish and maintain a positive relationship with a GP. This information will assist with further research and codesign of an intervention to improve access to preventive health care for PWSMI. ...
This dissertation presents an exploratory conceptual model of patient engagement in the management of their chronic illness(es) developed within the context of understanding and operationalising the construct of self-management. The study was funded by a Dora Lush Priority NHMRC Scholarship from March 2010 until December 2013. ...
The project is examining the association between place-making and physical and mental health outcomes including wellbeing among refugees in high-income contexts. ...
The study aims to investigate the organizational capacity of general practices for chronic diseases and to identify those features of the organization which are associated with high quality care. ...
This is a cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of an intervention which uses accessible and interactive information technology to support general practice nurses to better communicate with patients with low health literacy, to help them use information, set priorities, navigate referral and maintain behaviour change. ...
This study evaluates the impact of recalling patients to general practice for a visit to assess their risk of chronic disease and to help them to lower their risk by changes to smoking, diet, alcohol consumption and physical activity behaviours as well as pharmacological management of their blood pressure and cholesterol. ...
This cluster randomised trial will test new approaches to the management of COPD in primary care. ...
This PhD study used a mixed methods design to develop a theoretical model of the factors influencing the risk factor management practices of PHC clinicians, using data collected as part of the feasibility study of risk factor management in community health. ...
An ethnographic study was performed in two GP Super Clinics (GPSCs) between June 2011 and July 2012 to explore the evolution of organisational and clinical routines relating to collaborative care of chronic illness. ...
