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Strengthening the knowledge base of primary health care

The mission of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) is to provide national leadership in improving the quality and effectiveness of primary health care through the conduct of high quality priority-driven research and the support and promotion of best practice. It focuses on important sectoral questions relating to the organisation, financing, delivery and performance of primary health care, including its interaction with public health and the secondary and tertiary health care sectors.

The Institute's Research Advisory Board has determined that the research priorities for APHCRI are:

  • Innovation in State/Commonwealth relationships
  • Innovation in funding arrangements for new or existing services/models
  • Innovation in organisation and linkages within the Primary Health Care sector

In undertaking all aspects of its work, APHCRI places high value on:
  • respectful engagement of policy makers, practitioners and their organisations, consumers and their organisations and the research community
  • genuine partnerships, collaboration and teamwork with its associates and stakeholders
  • scientific independence and academic excellence
  • ethical practice, transparency, openness and accountability
  • practical and policy relevance to Primary Health Care priorities and issues in Australia
  • avoiding duplication of work undertaken by other programs or organisations
  • innovation and an orientation towards the future of Primary Health Care in Australia.

APHCRI Streams of Work

Domain

Topic

Stream

Lead Investigator

Lead Investigator's institution

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PHC
  • Sustaining an Aboriginal mental health service partnership
Stream One A/Professor Jeffrey Fuller The University of Sydney
 
  • Sustainable chronic disease management in remote Australia
Stream One Professor John Wakerman Flinders University of South Australia
 
  • Mapping Aboriginal Health Partnerships for the Evidence policy Transfer (MAHPET)
Stream Five A/Professor Jeffrey Fuller The University of Sydney
 
  • Improving the identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian general practice 
Stream Fourteen Margaret Kelaher University of Melbourne
Access to Primary Health Care
  • Optimising access to ‘best practice’ primary health care
Stream Thirteen Dr Elizabeth Comino University of New South Wales
 
  • Effective determinants for supporting lifestyle health literacy and self management skills in primary heath care
Stream Thirteen Professor Mark Harris University of New South Wales
 
  • Advancing health literacy through primary health care systems
Stream Thirteen Professor Robert Bush University of Queensland
Adolescent/Child Health
  • A trial of new ways to encourage adolescent Australians to avoid or reduce risk behaviours like smoking, drinking, drug use and unprotected sex
Stream Three Dr Lena Sanci The University of Melbourne
 
  • Interventions to prevent growth faltering in remote indigenous communities
Stream Four Professor Ross Bailie Menzies School of Health Research/ Flinders University of South Australia
 
  • Preventing overweight and obesity in young children: synthesising the evidence for management and policy making
Stream Four Professor Donna Cross Edith Cowan University
 
  • Building a portfolio of interventions for primary health care providers to promote healthy weight among young children
Stream Five Professor Donna Cross Edith Cowan University
 
  • Primary health care and readiness for school
Hub Research Ms Karen Gardner The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
Chronic Disease Management
  • Sustainable chronic disease management in remote Australia
Stream One Professor John Wakerman Flinders University
 
  • Caring for a marginalised community: the costs of engaging with culture and complexity
Stream One Dr Gary Rogers The University of Adelaide
 
  • Models of chronic disease management in primary for patients with mild to moderate asthma or COPD
Stream Four A/Professor Alan Crockett The University of Adelaide
 
  • A systematic review of chronic disease management
Stream Four Professor Nicholas Zwar University of New South Wales
 
  • Southern Highlands Division of General Practice diabetes program - report on implementation
Hub Research A/Prof Beverly Sibthorpe The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
 
  • European Observatory - Chronic Disease
Hub Research Professor Nicholas Glasgow The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
 
  • Serious and continuing illness policy and practice study
Hub Research Robert Wells The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
 
  • Chronic disease management: the contribution to organisational development to change management in primary care
Stream Sixteen Professor James Dunbar and Professor Prasuna Reddy Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Flinders and Deakin Universities
E-health
  • Electronic data for primary health care outcomes
Hub Research Dr Chris Kelman The Australian National University
Mental Health
  • Sustaining an Aboriginal mental health service partnership
Stream One A/Professor Jeffrey Fuller The University of Sydney
 
  • Exploratory economic analyses of two primary care mental health projects: implications for sustainability
Stream One Professor Jane Gunn The University of Melbourne
 
  • Re-order - Re-organising care for depression and related disorders in the Australian primary health care setting
Stream Three Professor Jane Gunn The University of Melbourne
 
  • Extending Re-order - Tasmanian and cross-cultural component
Stream Five Professor Jane Gunn The University of Melbourne
 
  • Models of mental health delivery: efficacy, support and policy
Stream Four Professor Helen Christensen The Australian National University
 
  • Primary care management of comorbid mental health and drug and alcohol problems
Stream Five Professor Helen Christensen The Australian National University
 
  • Optimising Allied Health Psychological Treatments in Primary Health Care; piloting a randomised controlled trial of social worker training in focused psychological strategies
Stream Twelve Dr Grant Blashki University of Melbourne
Multidisciplinary Teams
  • Co-ordination of care within primary health care and with other sectors: a systematic review
Stream Four A/Professor Gawaine Powell Davies University of New South Wales
 
  • Integration, co-ordination and miltidisciplinary care in Australia: growth via optimal governance arrangements
Stream Four Professor Claire Jackson The University of Queensland
 
  • Integration, co-ordination and miltidisciplinary approaches in primary care: a systematic investigation of the literature
Stream Four Professor David Currow Flinders University of South Australia
 
  • A narrative synthesis of models of integrated care centres/polyclinics
Stream Sixteen A/Professor Gawaine Powell Davies University of New South Wales
Primary Health Care Models/Delivery
  • SIREN project: Systems innovation and reviews of evidence in primary health care: narrative review of innovative models for comprehensive primary health care delivery
Stream Four Dr Lucio Naccarella The University of Melbourne
 
  • Systematic review of comprehensive primary health care models
Stream Four Ms Julie McDonald University of New South Wales
 
  • A systematic review of primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia 1993 - 2006
Stream Four Professor John Wakerman Flinders University of South Australia
Primary Health Care Performance
  • Qualitative study of the impact of National Performance Indicators on Divisions' planning
Hub Research A/Prof Beverly Sibthorpe The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
 
  • Development of a pool of common local performance indicators
Hub Research A/Prof Beverly Sibthorpe The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
Practice Nursing
  • Australian General Practice Nurses Study
Stream Three Dr Christine Phillips The Australian National University
 
  • Practice Nurse Adolescent Clinic for Health Evaluation (PANACHE )
Stream Five Professor Kelsey Hegarty The University of Melbourne
Preventative Medicine
  • Implementation of a SNAP intervention in two divisions of general practice: a feasibility study
Stream One Professor Mark Harris University of New South Wales
 
  • 45-49 year old chronic disease prevention health checks in general practice: utilisation, acceptability and effectiveness
Stream Five Professor Mark Harris University of New South Wales
Rural and Remote PHC
  • A/Professor Jeffrey Fuller and Professor John Wakerman's projects both deal with rural and remote issues (see above and below)
Stream One A/Professor Jeffrey Fuller
Professor John Wakerman
The University of Sydney and
Flinders University of South Australia
 
  • Implementation, sustainability and generalisation of exemplary models of PHC service delivery in rural and remote Australia: a case study analysis
Stream Five Professor John Wakerman Flinders University of South Australia
 
  • A proposal to investigate what incentives and innovative measures are used internationally for attracting supporting and retaining the workforce in rural and remote areas with particular focus on GPs, nurses and allied health providers
Stream Sixteen Professor John Wakerman, Professor John Humphreys and Dr Dennis Pashen

Flinders University of South Australia,
Monash University and Australian College for Rural and Remote Medicine

Self-help Organisations
  • A critical evaluation of the benefits of self-help organisations to people who suffer chronic diseases and examine ways to improve links between the groups and General Practitioners
Stream Three Dr Frances Boyle The University of Queensland
Workforce
  • An investigation into the evidence base for competency-based training in primary health care settings, specifically on chronic disease in the general practice context
Hub Research Professor Nicholas Glasgow The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
 
  • Optimising the primary mental health care workforce: how can effective psychological treatments for common mental disorders best be delivered in primary health care?
Stream Six Dr Grant Blashki The University of Melbourne
 
  • The contribution of approaches to organisational change in optimising the primary care workforce
Stream Six Professor James Dunbar Flinders University of South Australia
 
  • What is the place of generalism in the 2020 primary care team?
Stream Six Professor Jane Gunn The University of Melbourne
 
  • Improving primary health care workforce retention in small rural and remote communities - how important is ongoing education and training?
Stream Six Professor John Humphreys Monash University
 
  • Review of primary and community care nursing
Stream Six Professor Helen Keleher Monash University
 
  • The expanding role of generalists in rural and remote health: A systematic review
Stream Six A/Professor Dennis Pashen Australian College of Rural and Remmote Medicine
 
  • What is the place of generalism in mental health care in Australia? A systematic review of the literature
Stream Six Dr David Perkins University of New South Wales
 
  • Attracting health professionals into primary care: Strategies for recruitment
Stream Six A/Professor Jill Thistlewaite The University of Sydney
 
  • Optimising skill mix in the primary healthcare workforce for the care of older Australians
Stream Six Professor Nicholas Zwar University of New South Wales
 
  • Optimising residential aged care workforce: Leadership and management
Hub Research Dr Yun-Hee Jeon The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
 
  • Improving quality through clinical governance in primary health care
Stream Thirteen Dr Christine Phillips The Australian National University
 
  • Incentives and the quality of primary health care in Australia
Stream Thirteen Professor Anthony Scott Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
 
  • Incentives for primary health care team service provision
Stream Thirteen Dr Lucio Naccarella Australian Health Workforce Institute, University of Melbourne
 
  • Strategies to improve service linkages in primary mental health care: informing policy and practice
Stream Thirteen A/Professor Jeffrey Fuller University of Sydney
 
  • Using an integrated logic model to improve workforce retention and maximise sustainability of small rural and remote health care services
Stream Twelve Professor John Humphreys Monash University, Bendigo
 
  • Arranging Generalism in the 2020 Australian Primary Health Care Team
Stream Twelve Dr Victoria Palmer University of Melbourne
APHCRI Linkage and Exchange Travelling Fellowships
  • Models of mental health delivery: efficacy, support and policy - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Professor Helen Christensen The Australian National University
 
  • A systematic review of chronic disease management - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Dr Sarah Dennis University of New South Wales
 
  • Systematic review of comprehensive primary health care models - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Julie McDonald University of New South Wales
 
  • International rural and remote primary health care linkage and exchange - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Professor John Wakerman/ Professor John Humphreys

Flinders University
Monash University

 
  • Interventions to prevent growth faltering in children in remote Indigenous communities - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Dr Elizabeth McDonald Menzies School of Health Research
 
  • Engaging families through primary care to prevent childhood obesity - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Dr Lydia Hearn/ Margaret Miller Edith Cowan University
 
  • Optimising the contextualisation of evidence for primary care policy making - Fellowship report
Stream Seven Dr Lucio Naccarella University of Melbourne
 
  • Co-ordination of care within primary health care and with other sectors: a systematic review - Fellowship report
Stream Seven A/Professor Gawaine Powell Davies University of New South Wales
APHCRI/Robert Graham Center Visiting Fellowship
  • GIS and general practice - where are we going and when will we get there?
Stream Eight Dr Paul Grinzi University of Melbourne
 
  • Defining and targeting areas of primary care
    workforce need:
    a five-country comparison
Stream Nine Dr Rachel Lee North Yarra Community Health Centre, Collingwood
 
  • Ecologic and individual predictors for primary health access deprivation in refugee populations. Potential expansion of a US model for directing policy and its applicability to the Australian Context
Stream Fifteen Dr Danielle Butler Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Medical Service, Katherine
APHCRI Workforce Travelling Fellowships
  • Enhancing primary care and general practice as a career choice
Stream Ten A/Professor Jill Thistlewaite University of Sydney
 
  • Skill mix translation – top down or bottom up? An international comparison
Stream Ten Dr Jenny May University of Newcastle
 
  • Examining the implications of the Stream Six review in an international context, namely, primary mental health service research, policy and delivery in the Netherlands and the UK
Stream Ten A/Professor David Perkins University of New South Wales
 
  • Arranging generalism in the 2020 primary health care system
Stream Ten Dr Victoria Palmer and Professor Jane Gunn University of Melbourne
 
  • Preparing nurses for primary health care reform
Stream Ten Dr Rhian Parker and Professor Helen Keleher

University of Canberra and Monash University

 
  • Chronic disease management models as examples of organisational developmental approaches in primary care
Stream Ten Professor James Dunbar and Professor Prasuna Reddy Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Flinders and Deakin Universities
International Visiting Fellowships   Stream Eleven