scholarly journals Influencing population health performance: feedback from managers, population health staff and clinicians on theNSW Population Health Standards for Area Health Services

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jeannine L. M. Liddle ◽  
Thérèse C. Jones ◽  
Margaret S. Lesjak ◽  
Andrew J. Milat ◽  
David M. Lyle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Health Performance ◽  
Health Standards ◽  
Area Health

scholarly journals Enhancing evidence-based practice in population health: staff views, barriers and strategies for change

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armita Adily ◽  
Jeanette E Ward
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Strategies For Change ◽  
Area Health

Study objective: To determine barriers and enablers for evidence-based practice (EBP) in population health and potential strategies for change. Design: Self-administered survey of 104 professional staff (response rate, 73%) in the Division of Population Health, South Western Sydney Area Health Service in NSW serving a disadvantaged urban population. Main results: Most respondents (80%) ?strongly agreed? or ?agreed? that EBP would improve the effectiveness of their efforts in a disadvantaged region. However, more than half of respondents (56%) ?strongly agreed? or ?agreed? that there is lack of evidence for interventions in population health. Eighty two per cent of respondents ?strongly agreed? or ?agreed? that training in EBP is important for all population health workers. Those who used evidence also needed a greater capacity to discriminate ?good? from ?bad? research (85% in agreement). Contradictory policy was cited by one third of respondents as acting against EBP.

scholarly journals Conducting Population Health Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts and Recommendations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3320
Author(s):  
Amy R. Villarosa ◽  
Lucie M. Ramjan ◽  
Della Maneze ◽  
Ajesh George
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Recruitment Methods ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many changes, including restrictions on indoor gatherings and visitation to residential aged care facilities, hospitals and certain communities. Coupled with potential restrictions imposed by health services and academic institutions, these changes may significantly impact the conduct of population health research. However, the continuance of population health research is beneficial for the provision of health services and sometimes imperative. This paper discusses the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the conduct of population health research. This discussion unveils important ethical considerations, as well as potential impacts on recruitment methods, face-to-face data collection, data quality and validity. In addition, this paper explores potential recruitment and data collection methods that could replace face-to-face methods. The discussion is accompanied by reflections on the challenges experienced by the authors in their own research at an oral health service during the COVID-19 pandemic and alternative methods that were utilised in place of face-to-face methods. This paper concludes that, although COVID-19 presents challenges to the conduct of population health research, there is a range of alternative methods to face-to-face recruitment and data collection. These alternative methods should be considered in light of project aims to ensure data quality is not compromised.

Interactive visualization applications in population health and health services research: a systematic scoping review (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jawad Chishtie ◽  
Iwona Anna Bielska ◽  
Aldo Barrera ◽  
Jean-Sebastien Marchand ◽  
Muhammad Imran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Health Services Research ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Interactive Visualization ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Epidemiologic Surveillance

BACKGROUND Simple visualizations in health research data, such as scatter plots, heat maps and bar charts typically present relationships between two variables. Interactive visualization methods allow for multiple related facets, such as multiple risk factors, to be studied simultaneously, leading to data insights through exploring trends and patterns from complex big healthcare data. The technique presents a powerful tool that can be used in combination with statistical analysis for knowledge discovery, hypothesis generation and testing, and decision support. OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this scoping review is to describe and summarize the evidence of interactive visualization applications, methods and tools being employed in population health and HSR, and their sub-domains in the last 15 years, from 1 January 2005 to 30 March 2019. Our secondary objective is to describe the use cases, metrics, frameworks used, settings, target audience, goals and co-design of applications. METHODS We adapted standard scoping review guidelines, with a peer reviewed search strategy, two independent researchers at each stage of screening and abstraction, with a third independent researcher to arbitrate conflicts and validate findings. A comprehensive abstraction platform was built to capture the data from diverse bodies of literature, primarily from the computer science and health care sector. After screening 11,310 articles, we present findings from 56 applications from interrelated areas of population health and health services research, and their sub-domains such as epidemiologic surveillance, health resource planning, access, utilization and costs, among diverse clinical and demographic populations. RESULTS As a companion review to our earlier systematic synthesis of literature on visual analytic applications, we present findings in six major themes of interactive visualization applications developed for eight major problem categories. We found a wide application of interactive visualization methods, the major being epidemiologic surveillance for infectious disease, resource planning, health service monitoring and quality and studying medication use patterns. Data sources included mostly secondary administrative and electronic medical record data. Additionally, at least two-third applications involved participatory co-design approaches, while introducing a distinct category ‘embedded research’ within co-design initiatives. These applications were in response to an identified need for data-driven insights towards knowledge generation and decision support. We further discuss the opportunities from the use of interactive visualization methods towards studying global health, inequities including social determinants of health, and other related areas. We also allude to the challenges in the uptake of these methods. CONCLUSIONS Visualization in health has strong historical roots, with an upward trend in the use of these methods in population health and health services research. Such applications are being fast utilized by academic and health care agencies for knowledge discovery, hypotheses generation and decision support. CLINICALTRIAL Protocol registration: RR1-10.2196/14019 Related first review: RR2-10.2196/14019 INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT RR2-10.2196/14019

scholarly journals How men who have sex with men experience HIV health services in Kampala, Uganda

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. e001901
Author(s):  
Rachel King ◽  
Zubayiri Sebyala ◽  
Moses Ogwal ◽  
George Aluzimbi ◽  
Rose Apondi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Sex With Men

In sub-Saharan Africa, men who have sex with men (MSM) are socially, largely hidden and face disproportionate risk for HIV infection. Attention to HIV epidemics among MSM in Uganda and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa has been obscured by repressive governmental policies, criminalisation, stigma and the lack of basic epidemiological data describing these epidemics. In this paper, we aim to explore healthcare access, experiences with HIV prevention services and structural barriers to using healthcare services in order to inform the acceptability of a combination HIV prevention package of services for men who have sex with men in Uganda. We held focus group discussions (FGDs) with both MSM and healthcare providers in Kampala, Uganda, to explore access to services and to inform prevention and care. Participants were recruited through theoretical sampling with criteria based on ability to answer the research questions. Descriptive thematic coding was used to analyse the FGD data. We described MSM experiences, both negative and positive, as they engaged with health services. Our findings showed that socio-structural factors, mediated by psychological and relational factors impacted MSM engagement in care. The socio-structural factors such as stigma, homophobia and policy issues emerged strongly as did the mediating factors such as relations with specific health staff and a social support structure. A combination intervention addressing structural, social and psychological barriers could have an impact even in the precarious policy environment where this study was conducted.

scholarly journals Accountable Care Organizations and Clinical Commissioning Groups face an uncertain challenge for improving public health

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Douglas J. Noble
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Population Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Accountable Care Organizations ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Accountable Care ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

<p>Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) in the United States of America (USA) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) in the United Kingdom (UK) are new proposed organizations in health services both tasked with a role which includes improving public health.  Although there are very significant differences between the UK and USA health systems there appears to be a similar confusion as to how ACO and CCG will regard and address public or population health.  The role of ACO in improving population health and evaluating the health needs of their registered and insured patients remains ill-defined and poorly explored.  Likewise, in the current UK National Health Service (NHS) reorganisation, control and commissioning of appropriate local health services are passing from Primary Care Trusts (PCT) to new cross-organizational structures (CCG).  CCG groups aim to be, like ACO, physician led.  They will also assume a role for public or population health, but this role, like that of the newly-forming ACO, is currently unclear.  Lessons learned from the USA and UK experience of new organizations tasked with a role in improving public health may inform mechanisms for physician led organizations in the UK and the USA to assess health needs, monitor population health information and improve population health outcomes.</p>

Comparison of patterns of care in lung cancer in three area health services in New South Wales, Australia

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 677-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Vinod ◽  
A. C. Hui ◽  
N. Esmaili ◽  
M. J. Hensley ◽  
M. B. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Health Services ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Patterns Of Care ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Area Health
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