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

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