Medicine & Health Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity

Prevention research resources for health professionals

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Support for your research

The Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity (CPHCE) supports NSW Health staff and others who are involved in commissioning, conducting or using the results of health research or evaluation.

Below are topics we chose that are important for prevention research in primary and public health. For each topic, we identifyfree online resources that are suitable for people in the field.

If there is a free resource that you have found useful and would like to share, please let us know atcphce@unsw.edu.au.

ճof concepts underpinning evidence-based public health helps you to understand the terminology used in evaluation and research texts.

  • This section provides an overview of prevention and health promotion that will be useful in determining the need, scope and focus of research and how the results can be used.

    • ճwebpage for health promotion includes information, guidance and news on global health promotion.
    • : describes influential theories of health-related behaviors, processes of shaping behavior, and the effects of community and environmental factors on behavior.
    • A description of the Primary Health Care system in Australia by the
    • WHO webpage on includes information and toolkits for the global action. 
    • The drive towards universal health cover 
    • ճ  identifies and describes the essential elements of primary care to facilitate high performance

  • PHC provides opportunities for prevention and health promotion

    • A paper by Prof Mark Harris on
    • The RACGP Preventive Health Guildline; for GPs includes the Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice (the) and Putting prevention into practice (the )
    • . greater emphasis on preventative measures is outlined to reduce the chronic disease burden

  • CPHCE and the School of Population Health developed anonline coursefor GP registrars to provide an introduction to research in PHC. This course is freely accessible to anyone wanting to learn about doing research in PHC. To access the course, click. There are many online manuals, training programs and guides for research and evaluation. It’s worth looking at a few different ones to see what might suit your needs at this time. Here are a few:

    • This book is a starter ‘DIY’ text for practitioners who are looking to conduct evaluation studies and research as part of their own professional practice.
    • focuses on helping practitioners conduct research in their own organisations, and attention is given to the best methods for doing this effectively and sensitively.
    • This is an interactive guide for people who are managing an evaluation. The guide can be used for managing an evaluation that is conducted by an external evaluator or evaluation team, an internal team, or by a combination of these.
    • This guide to commissioning evaluation services complements the NSW Government Program Evaluation Guidelines and Toolkit. It promotes a proactive, planned and structured approach to commissioning evaluations, including information on when and how to commission an evaluation and how to make the most of the results
    • takes you through seven steps for planning and implementing a program evaluation project.
    • Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks + FRAMEWORK TEMPLATE
    • Evaluation framework for health promotion and disease prevention programs

  • Frameworks for evaluation help to plan the evaluation:

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    • Developmental evaluation for working in the early stage of an innovation in situations that are highly complex:and
    • Realist evaluation,Realist evaluation, which asks “what works, for whom, under what circumstances and how”:
    • Logic models for planning and evaluation:;;
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  • Working collaboratively with consumers and across institutions can help with the appropriateness of methods and uptake of results.

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    • VicHealthThis resource is for organisations entering into or working in a partnership to assess, monitor and maximise its ongoing effectiveness.
    • A short guide to get started, and become more familiar with co-design research

  • Policy research and development:

    • WHO
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    Systematic reviews:

    • Description of different types of systematic review and
    • The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools provides guidance on the process of conducting rapid reviews to use evidence to inform policy and program decision making.

    Health Impact Assessment (HIA):

    Statistics:

  • Ethics:

    • NHMRC
    • ճEthics Committee forresearch proposals affecting the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people and communities in NSW
    • - thesystem

    Data:

    • Organising data storage and sharing:

  • Social determinants of health (SDOH)

    • What are the SDOH and what does it mean for?
    • Guidance onof health by NACCHO

    Sustainable development goals (SDGs):

    • on SDGs

    Health literacy:

    • (WHO)
    • How do you measure it?
    • - a guide from theAustralian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

    Patient activation:

    • Patient activation (PA) describes the knowledge, skills and confidence a person has in managing their own health and care
    • The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a validated licenced tool to measure patients’ skills, knowledge and confidence to manage their long-term conditions.
    • An implementation guidefrom the NHS about PA and the PAM is .

    Urban Health:
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    •  for publication