Integrated health research centres for Australia

Integrated health research centres for Australia.

Academic health science centres in Australia: let's get competitive.

he model of the academic health science centre (AHSC) arose decades ago in the United States,1 and is now internationally well established, with 17 centres in Canada, eight in Holland, five in the United Kingdom, two in Singapore, but none in Australia. An AHSC is where a leading university joins with a major tertiary health care provider in a tripartite mission of excellence in clinical servic...

Health services research in Australia.

The long-awaited Wills Implementation Committee Report (CoA 2000), which was completed by November last year, has now been released. Wills’ earlier Report (CoA 1998) identified the need for the development of health services research capacity in Australia, and this new Report recommends how this should be done, through the establishment and support of several large multi-disciplinary centres. T...

Integrated primary health care in Australia

INTRODUCTION To fulfil its role of coordinating health care, primary health care needs to be well integrated, internally and with other health and related services. In Australia, primary health care services are divided between public and private sectors, are responsible to different levels of government and work under a variety of funding arrangements, with no overarching policy to provide a c...

Variation in quality of preventive care for well adults in Indigenous community health centres in Australia

BACKGROUND Early onset and high prevalence of chronic disease among Indigenous Australians call for action on prevention. However, there is deficiency of information on the extent to which preventive services are delivered in Indigenous communities. This study examined the variation in quality of preventive care for well adults attending Indigenous community health centres in Australia. METHO...