Frith Rayner, APHCRI
 APHCRI research teams finding solutions to policy questions
Research commissioned by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) now covers every State and Territory in Australia, and the breadth of primary health care concerns facing policy advisers.
In October APHCRI announced Stream Six - nine projects commissioned to investigate a number of issues surrounding workforce issues in Australia. The projects include investigating rural and remote health, indigenous health and mental health workforce issues. They also examine the emerging multi-disciplinary care approach to primary health care, including the practice nurse role.
Also in October APHCRI accepted the final reports from the Stream Four program - research covering issues as diverse as governance models for primary health care organisations, successful interventions in depression and anxiety care, models for successful rural and remote medical programs and best practice approaches to chronic disease management in primary health care.
Professor Nicholas Glasgow, APHCRI Director, said the Institute's research is providing answers to policy adviser's difficult questions about coping with chronic disease burden in the community and care for mental health patients - along with the continuing rural and remote issues and workforce shortages Australia must cope with.
"Our research program is now investigating a number of areas that are in the media every day. Primary health care is the ideal setting for these patients to receive treatment, and our research teams are providing Government with some tools to help primary health care meet the community needs," he said.
Stream One research was completed in 2005, while Stream Five began in November this year. Stream Three studies are three-year grants due to be completed in July 2007.
For further information, contact:
Frith Rayner
Program Coordinator: Communications and Policy Liaison
Ph: 02 6125 2026
E: Frith.Rayner@anu.edu.au
Web: www.anu.edu.au/aphcri/
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