Over the past two months, AIHPS has continued to provide quality and up-to-date information and ongoing policy analysis through its series of submissions to the Medical Journal of Australia on Health Reform and Prevention, ongoing project work and certainly the National Citizen Engagement Forum held on the 16th September in Brisbane.
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Strategic Directions
Here is a summary update of AIHPS work and research program. Roundtables
In the last six months of 2008, we will be holding two Roundtable/Forums to discuss key issues for Health Reform in this country. The next of these will be the Citizen Engagement Summit which was held on 16th September 2008 (see below) in Brisbane. Further information about the final event for 2008 will be posted as it becomes available.
Citizen's Engagement Research Program
This has now been completed and all the documents are now available on the AIHPS website. A final monograph will be produced that will include a final chapter about the National Citizen Engagement Forum.
On the 16th September 2008 the AIHPS National Citizen Engagement Forum was held in Brisbane, and looked at the oucomes of the larger consumer engagement research project and then culminated in a deliberative forum workshop series of sessions to analyse and discuss ways forward in different thematic areas. This event was a novel and innovative approach to engage participants in the use of deliberative techniques and all those who attended agreed that it was a worthwhile exercise.
The Discussion Paper and the outcomes of the event are now available on the AIHPS website. A special edition of the AIHPS e-Update will be available at the end October with a full wrap-up of the event including photos.
Further information about this project and all related project documents are available also via the AIHPS website.
VicHealth Discovery Grant AIHPS has been successful in its VicHealth Discovery Grant application to undertake a study entitled Listening to citizens views about chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
Further information on this study will be posted on the AIHPS website in due course.
AIHPS continues to apply for other national competitive grants and these outcomes will be reported as these details are released.
ADMA Conference 2008 - report
The 4th Annual National Disease Management conference by the Australian Disease Mangement Association (ADMA) was held on the 4th And 5th September in Sydney. The program included internationa and Australian keynote speakers as well as severy submitted presentations from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
The theme of the conference was evaluation and this subject was covered in 3 seperate thought provoking sessions by Adj/Prof Arial Linden. Delegates received and update on The Health and Hospitals Reform Commission from Dr Christine Bennett, and heard about England's approach to chronic disease management from Prof David Colin-Thorne, Telehealth and telecare initiatives from Dr Mike Bainbridge (UK) and David Whitlinger (USA), the electronic revolution from Prof Rod Jackson (New Zealand, Aboriginal health and kidney disease from A/Prof Alan Cass, Medibanks telephonic support program from Julie Andrews, mental health from Prof Ian Hickie, depression self-help from Prof Helen Christensen and were provided and update on Victorian and NSW chronic disease programs from Sian Reilly and Prof Ron Penny. Other Australian keynote speakers included Prof Brian Oldenburg from AIHPS who spoke on self-management, A/Prof Malcom Battersby who spoke on health work skills for self-management and Dr Andrea Driscoll who presented on heart failure management complexity score.
On the second day Dr Marco Bonollo (ADMA) discussed the draft White Paper on Disease Management and invited feedback from the delegates. Throughout the two day event there were many high quality presentations which discussed a variety of Disease Management initiatives and services provided in the private and public sectors. All the presentations were well received and the speakers are to be congratulated on their presentations.
Information on the conference program is available on the ADMA website at www.adma.org.au For information on the presentations email
ANZHP
The Australian Health Policy (ANZHP) open-access journal is ready to receive manuscripts that promote debate and understanding about health policy developments and practice in the regions.
A special edition will soon be published in the next month around Workforce and Public Health.
For article submissions and for further information visit the ANZHP (BioMed Central) website Marketing and Communications
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e-Update Issue 4, 2008
