Frith Rayner, APHCRI
The Australian Government's commitment to developing policy that will assist in easing the chronic illness burden on primary health care could be well-informed by research led by Dr Ellen Nolte, who is speaking at the General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference this month.
Dr Nolte comes to the conference as the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute sponsored keynote speaker and will discuss her work with the European Observatory examining chronic illness care approaches in seven different countries.
The project, which will be published in book form this year is part of a major piece of work by the European Observatory titled: Responding to the epidemic of chronic disease. APHCRI Foundation Director Professor Nicholas Glasgow has led the Australian work included in the publication.
Dr Nolte will also participate in the Linkage and exchange: researchers and policy makers working together to improve health workshop, reflecting on United Kingdom models and approaches.
Dr Nolte is a senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Her research interests are in health systems, including:
- approaches to health system performance assessment
- health system responses to chronic disease
- international health care system comparisons
- trends and determinants of population health in former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
APHCRI has also announced several new research streams in recent months, with the aim of expanding both the linkage and exchange opportunities for research teams engaged in APHCRI research, but also to facilitate international visitors sharing their expertise with Australia and expanding capacity in primary health care research. More information on these research streams, is available on the website. Further research announcements are planned for later in 2008.
See www.anu.edu.au/aphcri
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