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Primary Health Care Special Interest Group
Committee Details
Convenor: Prof Helen Keleher [ email ]
General Committee Member: Gai Wilson (VIC)
General Committee Member: Fran Baum (SA)
General Committee Member: Clare Shuttleworth (SA)
About
Aims
The PHCSIG aims to:
- Advocate for a national primary health care policy;
- Advance primary health care policy, programs and practice;
- Facilitate information exchange and supporting development of policy and program development at State/Territory and Commonwealth levels;
- Provide networking opportunities for workforce and for research into practice;
- Advance the establishment and funding of publicly funded community health and primary health care services;
- Develop understanding of the operation of comprehensive PHC contribute to building of capacity of the PHC sector
Objectives
- Facilitate the preparation and delivery of periodic seminars and workshops, discussion/issues papers and conference papers for members and other stakeholders;
- Participate in the development of primary health care policy in Australia and overseas;
- Contribute to the gathering of an evidence base to inform and improve primary health care in Australia to inform and aid best practice nationally.
- Develop PHAA policies to support primary health care in Australia;
- Collaborate with other stakeholders to advance our aims.
Policy
Articles/Links
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Reinventing primary health care: the need for systems integration
Julio Frenk, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9684, Pages 170 - 173, 11 July 2009
Click this link to download the article
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Research
SIG Forums
The Primary Health Care SIG Forum provides an area for Primary Health Care SIG members to post information, respond to and discuss various articles of interest and to interact with fellow members.
Link to Forums (you will be required to login to access this area)
Events
| David Legge Blog
The PEH and PHC SIGs held a very stimulating workshop on 26 September in Canberra, prior to the PHAA annual conference. One of the ideas which surfaced during that discussion was the possibility of creating a blog to support a continuing discussion of the political economy of health. David Legge has now created a blog which you can access at http://poleconhealth.blogspot.com/. So dear friends, please take up the challenge - there are already some posts to the blog that will get the discussion going.
If you want to be a 'member' of this blog, you can do so through Google friends, email D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au
A 'member' can post topics and can post comments without moderation. Non-members cannot post topics but can comment but their comments will be moderated.
Deb Gleeson (PEHSIG convenor) and Helen Keleher (PHCSIG convenor)
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Advocacy
Chronic Disease Management: Strengthening the Primary Health Care Approach
National Primary and Community Health Network forum
Held Brisbane, 7/11/ 06
Presentations are available here |
November 2006 |
| Measuring the performance of Primary Health Care: What can we do right now? (PDF) |
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Links (Primary Health Network)
- Primary and Community Health Network Victoria
- The Primary and Community Health Network (P&CHN) is an alliance established with the aim of promoting debate and influencing policy development about issues relevant to primary and community health in Victoria. It currently comprises representatives from the Centre for Development and Innovation in Health at the Australian Institute for Primary Care, La Trobe University; Community Health Victoria (VHA); General Practice Divisions - Victoria; the Municipal Association of Victoria; Royal District Nursing Service; the Victorian Community Health Association and the Women's Health Association of Victoria.
- Health Inequalities Research Collaboration
- The goal of the Collaboration is to enhance Australia's knowledge on the causes of and effective responses to health inequalities, and to promote vigorously the application of this evidence to reduce health inequalities in Australia.
- International Society for Equity in Health
You will need Adobe Reader to open PDF format files. Adobe Reader is available free from the Adobe website.
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