A5025808506- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Academic Writing and Publishing
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
McMaster University
2020-2024
Monash University
2010-2012
Ghana Health Service
2006
'Codesign' and associated terms such as 'coproduction' or 'patient engagement', are increasingly common in the health research literature, due to an increased emphasis on importance of ensuring that related service/systems development is meaningful end-users. However, there continues be a lack clarity regarding key principles practices codesign, wide variation extent which service users meaningfully engaged process. These issues particularly acute when end-users include populations who have...
Objective: To identify barriers to, and enablers of, the uptake of preventive care in general practice from perspective community members, to explore their sense effectiveness that care. Design, participants setting: Qualitative study involving 18 focus groups comprising 85 members aged over 25 years, two areas metropolitan Melbourne were identified as being high low socioeconomic status (SES). The was performed between May 9 December 2010. Groups stratified by age, sex location (high or...
Abstract Background Cocreation has the potential to engage people with lived and living experiences in design evaluation of health social services. However, guidance is needed better include from equity‐deserving groups (EDGs), who are more likely face barriers participation, experience ongoing or historical harm, benefit accessible methods engagement. Objective The aim this international forum (CoPro2022) was advance a collective vision for equity‐based cocreation. Design A participatory...
Mutual Health Organizations (MHO) emerged in Ghana the mid-1990s. The organizational structure and financial management of private public MHO hold important lessons for development national health insurance Ghana, but there is little evidence to date on their features. This paper aims at filling this data gap, making recommendations Ghanaian authorities how stimulate success MHO.Survey among 45 2004-2005, asking questions structure, position.Private had more autonomy setting premiums benefit...
In 2009, the Victorian Parliament Legislative Assembly of Australia commissioned a Parliamentary Inquiry into opportunities for schools to become focus promoting healthy community living. Submissions varied widely in their positions about school health promotion. The aim this review is analyze submissions identify core themes debates promotion and how stakeholders saw becoming communities.Submissions (N = 159) were downloaded from website. Open coding was used code data. codes then refined...
Background: Co-design is an approach to engaging stakeholders in health and social system change that rapidly gaining traction, yet there are also questions about the extent which meaningful engagement of structurally vulnerable communities whether co-design leads lasting change. The McMaster University Co-Design Hub with Vulnerable Populations (‘the Hub’) a three-year interdisciplinary project goal facilitating partnerships, advancing methods populations, mobilising knowledge. Aims...
many good health promotion programs are implemented and evaluated but not published. The potential for the field to learn from these is therefore reduced. This article describes design of an intervention increase skills confidence in writing publication amongst practitioners Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR) Victoria.health Community Women's Health funded organisations EMR participated intervention, which was based on peer learning principles through a Short Course with key elements. Two...