Publications

Published research

2018

• Roberts N, Li V, Atkinson J, Heffernan M, McDonnell G, Prodan A, Freebairn L, Lloyd B, Nieuwenhuizen S, Mitchell J, Lung T, Wiggers J. Can the Target Set for Reducing Childhood Overweight and Obesity Be Met? A System Dynamics Modelling Study in New South Wales, Australia. Syst Res Behav Sci. doi: 10.1002/sres.2555
• Shiell A, Hawe P, Kavanagh S. Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions. Soc Sci Med. 2018 Sep 8. pii: S0277-9536(18)30488-X. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.006. [Epub ahead of print]
• Astell-Burt T, Rowbotham S, Hawe P. Communicating the benefits of population health interventions: the health effects can be on par with those of medication. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health 2018;52:5462
• Chau JY, McGill B, Thomas MM, Carroll TE, Bellew W, Bauman, A, Grunseit AC. Is this health campaign really social marketing? A checklist to help you decide. Health Promot J Austral. 2018;00:1–4. doi:10.1002/hpja.13
• Grunseit A, Rowbotham S, Crane M, Indig D, Bauman, A, Wilson A. Nanny or canny? Community perceptions of government intervention for preventive health. Crit Public Health.2018;doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1468020
• Hooper P, Boruff B, Beesley B, Badland H, Giles-Corti B. Testing spatial measures of public open space planning standards with walking and physical activity health outcomes: Findings from the Australian national liveability study. Landsc Urban Plan. 2018;171:57-67; doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.12.001
• Indig D, Grunseit A, Greig A, Lilley H, Bauman A. Development of a tool for the evaluation of obesity prevention partnerships. Health Promot J Austral. 2017;00:1–10. doi: 10.1002/hpja.10
• Kite J, Grunseit A, Bohn-Goldbaum E, Bellew W, Carroll T, Bauman A. A Systematic Search and Review of Adult-Targeted Overweight and Obesity Prevention Mass Media Campaigns and Their Evaluation: 2000–2017, J Health Commun. 2018, doi: 10.1080/10810730.2018.1423651

• McGill B, O’Hara B, Grunseit A, Bauman A, Osborne D, Lawler L, Phongsavan P. Acceptability of financial incentives for maintenance of weight loss in mid-older adults: a mixed methods study. BMC Public Health. 2018;18:244 doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5136-z
• Roberts N, Atkinson J, McDonnell G, Osgood N, Wutzke S. Systems modeling and big data for non-communicable disease prevention. Oxford Bibliographies. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199756797
• Atkinson J, Page A, Prodan A, McDonnell G, Osgood N. Systems modelling tools to support policy and planning. Lancet. 2018;391: 1158–59. doi: org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30302-7
• Fehily C, Bartlem K, Wiggers J, Wolfenden L, Regan T, Dray J, Bailey J, Bowman J. Systematic review of interventions to increase the provision of care for chronic disease risk behaviours in mental health settings: review protocol. Syst Rev. 2018 Apr 30;7(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0735-4.
• McGill B, O’Hara B, Bauman A, Grunseit A, Phongsavan P. Are financial incentives for lifestyle behaviour change informed or inspired by behavioural economics? Am J Health Promot. 2018. doi: 10.1177/0890117118770837
• Shiell A, Jackson H. How much does Australia Spend on Prevention and How Would we know Whether it is Enough? Health Promot J Austr. 2018;doi: 10.1002/hpja.165. [epub ahead of print]
• Muhunthan J, Angell B, Wilson A, Hackett M, Latimer J, Eades A-M, Jan S. Australia’s appointment to the UN Human Rights Council means it must deliver on Indigenous engagement in alcohol control. 2018. Aust N Z J Public Health. Online. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12799
• Atkinson JA, Prodan A, Livingston M, Knowles D, O’Donnell, Room R, Indig D, Page A, McDonnell G, Wiggers J. Impacts of licensed premises trading hour policies on alcohol-related harms. Addiction. 2018; doi: 10.1111/add.14178. [Epub ahead of print]
• Vidgen H, Love P, Wutzke S, Daniels L, Rissel C, Innes-Hughes C, Baur L. A description of health care system factors in the implementation of universal weight management services for children with overweight or obesity: case studies from Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Implement Sci. 2017; 13:109 doi: 10.1186/s13012-018-0801-2
• Cullerton K, Donnet T, Lee A, Gallegos D. Effective advocacy strategies for influencing government nutrition policy: a conceptual model. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2018;15:83 doi: 10.1186/s12966-018-0716-y
• Pengilley A, Kelly P. Building the Machine: The Importance of Governance in Obesity Policy. Front Public Health. 2018; 6: 221. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00221
• Pescud M, Friel S, Lee A, Sacks G. Extending the paradigm: a policy framework for healthy and equitable eating (HE²). Public Health Nutr 2018; doi 10.1017/S1368980018002082
• Conte K, Hawe P. Will e-monitoring of policy and program implementation stifle or enhance practice? How would we Know? Frontiers of Public Health. Doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00243
• Astell-Burt T, Rowbotham S, Hawe P. Communicating the benefits of population health interventions: the health effects can be on par with those of medication. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health 2018;52:5462
• Shiell A, Hawe P, Kavanagh S. Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions. Soc Sci Med. 2018;doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.006.
• Roberts N, Li V, Atkinson J, Heffernan M, McDonnell G, Prodan A, Freebairn L, Lloyd B, Nieuwenhuizen S, Mitchell J, Lung T, Wiggers J. Can the Target Set for Reducing Childhood Overweight and Obesity Be Met? A System Dynamics Modelling Study in New South Wales, Australia. Syst Res Behav Sci. doi: 10.1002/sres.2555

2017

• Jan S, Wiseman W. In response to Sanders et al on the recommendations for conduct, nethodological practices, and reporting of cost-effectiveness analyses. JAMA. 2017;317(1):89-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.17824
• Atkinson J, O’Donnell E, Wiggers J, McDonnell G, Mitchell J, Freebairn L, Indig D, Rychetnik L. Dynamic simulation modelling of policy responses to reduce alcohol-related harms: rationale and procedure for a participatory approach. Public Health Res Pract. 2017;27(1):e2711707.
• Wutzke S, Redman S, Bauman A, Hawe P, Shiell A, Thackway S, Wilson A. A new model of collaborative research: experiences from one of Australia’s NHMRC Partnership Centres for Better Health. Public Health Res Pract. 2017;27(1):e2711706
• Badland HM, Rachele JN, Roberts R, Giles-Corti B. Creating and applying public transport indicators to test pathways of behaviours and health through an urban transport framework.J Transp Health. 2017;4:208-215; doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2017.01.007
• Freebairn L, Rychetnik L, Atkinson J, Kelly P, McDonnell G, Roberts N, Whittall C, Redman S. Knowledge mobilisation for policy development: implementing systems approaches through participatory dynamic simulation modelling. Health Res Policy Syst. 2017;15:83 doi: 10.1186/s12961-017-0245-1
• Muhunthan J, Angell B, Hackett ML, Wilson W, Latimer J, Eades A-M, Jan S. Global systematic review of Indigenous community-led legal interventions to control alcohol. BMJ Open 2017;7:e013932. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013932
• Wilson A, Barnett P, Rowbotham S, Wutzke S. High risk prevention strategies. Oxford Bibliographies. 2017;doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756797-0159
• O’Donnell E, Atkinson JA, Freebairn L, Rychetnik L. Participatory simulation modelling to inform public health policy and practice: Rethinking the evidence hierarchies. J Public Health Policy. 2017;May;38(2):203–215. doi: 10.1057/s41271-016-0061-9.
• Page A, Atkinson J, Heffernan M, McDonnell G, Hickie I. A decision-support tool to inform Australian strategies for preventing suicide and suicidal behaviour. Public Health Res Pract. 2017;27(2):e2721717.
• Willis CD, Riley B, Stockton L, Viehbeck S, Wutzke S, Frank J. Evaluating the impact of applied prevention research centres: results from a modified Delphi approach. Research Evaluation. 2017;26(2):78–90. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvx010
• Rowbotham, S, McKinnon, M, Leach, J, Lamberts, R, Hawe, P. (2017). Does citizen science have the capacity to transform population health science? Crit Public Health. 2017; advance online publication. doi:10.1080/09581596.2017.1395393
• Wolfenden L, Nathan NK, Sutherland R, Yoong SL, Hodder RK, Wyse RJ, Delaney T, Grady A, Fielding A, Tzelepis F, Clinton-McHarg T, Parmenter B, Butler P, Wiggers J, Bauman A, Milat A, Booth D, Williams CM. Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017, Issue 11. Art. No.: CD011677. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011677.pub2 First pub May 2015
• Chamberlain C, Perlen S, Brennan S, Rychetnik L, Thomas D, Maddox R, Alam N, Banks E, Wilson A, Eades S. Evidence for a comprehensive approach to Aboriginal tobacco control to maintain the decline in smoking: an overview of reviews among Indigenous peoples. Syst Rev 2017;6:135 doi: 10.1186/s13643-017-0520-9
• Fehily C, Bartlem K, Wiggers J, Wye P, Clancy R, Castle D, Wutzke S, Rissel C, Wilson A, McCombie P, Murphy F, Bowman J. Evaluating the effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle clinician in addressing the chronic disease risk behaviours of community mental health clients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.Trials. 2017;18:276. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-2017-1
• Muhunthan J, Angell B, Wilson A, Reeve B, and Jan S. Judicial intervention in alcohol regulation: an empirical legal analysis. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2017 doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12666
• Rutter H, Savona N, Glonti K, Bibby J, Cummins S, Finegood DT, Greaves F, Harper L, Hawe P, Moore L, Petticrew M, Rehfuess E, Shiell A, Thomas J, White M. The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health. Lancet. 2017;doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31267-9
• Wutzke S, Roberts N, Willis C, Best A, Wilson A, Trochim W. Setting strategy for system change: using concept mapping to prioritise national action for chronic disease prevention. Health Res Policy Syst. 2017;15:69 doi 10.1186/s12961-017-0231-7
• Indig D, Lee K, Grunseit A, Milat A, Bauman A. Pathways for scaling up public health interventions BMC Public Health. 2017;18:68 doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4572-5
• Atkinson JA, Knowles D, Wiggers J, et al. Harnessing advances in computer simulation to inform policy and planning to reduce alcohol-related harms. Int J Public Health. 2017; epub before print. doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1041-y
• Friel S, Pescud M, Malbon E, Lee A, Carter R, Greenfield G, Cobcroft M, Potter J, Rychetnik L, Meertens B. Using systems science to understand the determinants of inequities in healthy eating. PLOS One. 2017;12(11):e0188872. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188872. eCollection 2017
• Conte KP, Groen S, Loblay V, Green A, Milat A, Persson L, Innes-Hughes C, Mitchell J, Thackway S, Williams M, Hawe P. Dynamics behind the scale up of evidence-based obesity prevention: protocol for a multi-site case study of an electronic implementation monitoring system in health promotion practice. Implement Sci. 2017; 12(146). doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0686-5
• Liu H, Muhunthan J, Ananthapavan J, Hawe P, Shiell A, Jan S. Exploring the use of economic evidence to inform investment in disease prevention – a qualitative study. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2017; doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12748

2016

• Grunseit AC, Rowbotham S, Pescud M, Indig D, Wutzke S. Beyond fun runs and fruit bowls: an evaluation of the meso-level processes that shaped the Australian Healthy Workers Initiative. Health Promot J Austr 2016 doi: 10.1071/HE16049
• Pescud M, Waterworth P, Shiltond T, Teal R, Slevin T, Ledger M, Lester L, Rosenberg M. A healthier workplace? Implementation of fruit boxes in the workplace. Health Educ J 2016;0017896916629817
• Lee AJ, Kane S, Ramsey R, Good E, Dick M. Testing the price and affordability of healthy and current (unhealthy) diets and the potential impacts of policy change in Australia. BMC Public Health 2016;16:315 doi 10.1186/s12889-016-2996-y
• Greenwood-Lee J, Hawe P, Nettel-Aguirre A, Shiell A, Marshall DA. Complex intervention modelling should capture the dynamics of adaptation. BMC Med Res Methodol 2016;16:51 doi 10.1186/s12874-016-0149-8
• Kanal S, Lloyd B, Rissel C, Portors C, Grunseit A, Indig D, Ibrahim I, McElduff S. Evaluation of the implementation of Get Healthy at Work, a workplace health promotion program in New South Wales, Australia. Health Promot J Austr 2016 doi: 10.1071/HE16039
• Muhunthan J, Eades AM, Jan S. UN-led Universal Periodic Review highly critical of Australia’s record on human rights and health for Indigenous Australians. BMJ Glob Health2016;1:e000018. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2015-000018
• Conte KP, Schure MB, Goins RT. Older American Indians’ perspectives on health, arthritis, and physical activity: Implications for adapting evidence-based interventions, Oregon, 2013. Prev Chronic Dis 2016;13:160098. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160098
• Wutzke S, Benton M, Verma R. Towards the implementation of large scale innovations in complex health care systems: views of managers and frontline personnel BMC Res Notes 2016; 9:327 doi 10.1186/s13104-016-2133-0
• Wutzke S, Morrice E, Benton M, Wilson A.What will it take to improve prevention of chronic diseases in Australia? A case study of two national approaches. Aust Health Rev 2016; doi: 10.1071/AH16002
• Zapata-Diomedi B, and Veerman L. The association between built environment features and physical activity in the Australian context: A synthesis of the literature. BMC Public Health 2016;16:484 doi 10.1186/s12889-016-3154-2
• Davies C, Pescud M, Anwar-McHenry J, Wright P. Arts, public health and the National Arts and Health Framework: a lexicon for health professionals. Aust N Z J Public Health 2016;40,4,304–306. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12545
• Mandell M, Keast R, Chamberlain D. Collaborative networks and the need for a new management language. Public Manag Rev 2016;1–16. doi: 10.1080/14719037.2016.1209232
• Wright D, Gordon R, Carr D, Craig JC, Banks E, Muthayya S, Wutzke S, Eades SJ, Redman S, on behalf of the SEARCH collaborators. The Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH): a long-term platform for closing the gap. Public Health Res Pract. 2016;26(3):e2631635. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/ phrp2631635
• Wutzke S, Morrice E, Benton M, Wilson A. Systems approaches for chronic disease prevention: sound logic and empirical evidence, but is this view shared outside of academia? Public Health Res Pract 2016;26(3):e2631632. doi: http:// dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2631632
• Carey G, Malbon E, Crammond B, Pescud M, Philip B. Can the sociology of social problems help us to understand and manage ‘lifestyle drift’? Health Promot Int 2016;1–7 doi: 10.1093/heapro/dav116
• Liu H, Muhunthan J, Hayek A, Hackett M, Laba T, Peiris D, Jan S. Examining the use of process evaluations of randomised controlled trials of complex interventions addressing chronic disease in primary health care—a systematic review protocol. Syst Rev 2016;15;5(1):138. doi: 10.1186/s13643-016-0314-5.
• Waterworth P, Pescud M, Chappell S, Davies C, Roche D, Shilton T, Ledger M, Slevin T, Rosenberg M. Culture, management and finances as key aspects for healthy workplace initiatives. Health Promot Int 2016. doi:10.1093/heapro/daw068
• Angell B, Muhunthan J, Eades A-M, Cunningham J, Garvey G, Cass A, Howard K, Ratcliffe J, Eades S, Jan S. The health-related quality of life of Indigenous populations: a global systematic review. Qual Life Res 2016;25:2161. doi:10.1007/s11136-016-1311-9
• Freebairn L, Atkinson J, Kelly P, McDonnell G, Rychetnik L. Simulation modelling as a tool for knowledge mobilisation in health policy settings: a case study protocol Health Res Policy Syst 2016;14:71 doi: 10.1186/s12961-016-0143-y
• Lewis M, Lee A.  Costing ‘healthy’ food baskets in Australia – a systematic review of food price and affordability monitoring tools, protocols and methods. Public Health Nutr 2016; 19(16), pp. 2872–2886. doi: 10.1017/S1368980016002160
• Chappell S, Pescud M, Waterworth P, Shilton T, Roche D, Ledger M, Slevin T, Rosenberg M. Exploring the process of implementing healthy workplace initiatives: Mapping to Kotter’s leading change model. J Occup Environ Med 2016; doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000854
• Wolfenden L, Jones J, Williams C, Finch M, Wyse RJ, Kingsland M, Tzelepis F, Wiggers J, Williams AJ, Seward K, Small T, Welch V, Booth D, Yoong S. Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare services.Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2016, Issue 10. Art. No.: CD011779. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011779.pub2
• Yu S, Muhunthan J, Lindley R, Glozier N, Jan S, Anderson C, Li Q, Hackett M. Driving in stroke survivors aged 18–65 years: The Psychosocial Outcomes In StrokE (POISE) Cohort Study. Int J Stroke 2016;11(7)799–806. doi: 10.1177/1747493016641952
• Lung TW, Muhunthan J, Laba T-L, Shiell A, Milat A, and Jan S. Making guidelines for economic evaluations relevant to public health in Australia. Aust NZJ Public Health. 2016;doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12601
• Thurber KA., Banwell C, Neeman T, Dobbins T, Pescud M, Lovett R, Banks E. Understanding barriers to fruit and vegetable intake in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children: a mixed-methods approach. Public Health Nutr 2016. pp.1–16. doi:10.1017/S1368980016003013.
• Zapata-Diomedi B, Mantilla Herrera AM, Veerman JL. The effects of built environment attributes on physical activity-related health and health care costs outcomes in Australia Health Place 2016, Volume 42, Pages 19–29 doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.08.010
• Wolfenden L, Regan T, Williams C, Wiggers J, Kingsland M, Milat A, Rissel C, Bauman A, Booth D, Farrell MM, Légaré F, Zomahoun H, Parmenter B, Ben Charif A, Yoong S. Strategies to improve the implementation of workplace-based policies or practices targeting tobacco, alcohol, diet, physical activity and obesity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 12. Art. No.: CD012439. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012439

2015

• Giles-Corti B, Sallis JF, Sugiyama T, Frank LD, Lowe M, Owen N. Translating active living research into policy and practice: One important pathway to chronic disease prevention. J Public Health Policy 2015;36,231–243. doi: 10.1057/jphp.2014.53; published online 22 January 2015
• Hawe P. Lessons from complex interventions to promote health. Annu Rev Public Health 2015;36:307–323.
• Muhunthan J, Eades A-M, Jan S. Neglecting preventive health threatens child rights in Australia. The Lancet  2015;385(9966):415. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60146–5.
• Atkinson J, Page A, Wells R, Milat A, Wilson A. A modelling tool for policy analysis to support the design of efficient and effective policy responses for complex public health problems. Implement Sci 2015;10:26 doi: 10.1186/s13012-015-0221-5.
• Hawe P, Bond L, Ghali LM, Perry R, Blackstaffe A, Davison CM, Casey DM, Butler H, Webster CM, Scholz B. Replication of a whole school ethos changing intervention: different context, similar effects, additional insights. BMC Public Health. 2015;15:265. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1538-3
• Hawe P, Riley T, Gartrell A, Turner K, Canales, Omstead D. Comparison communities in a cluster randomised trial innovate in response to ‘being controlled’. Soc Sci Med 2015;133:1021–110.
• Eades SJ, Chamberlain C. Seeking a comprehensive approach to tobacco control for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Med J Aust 2015; 202(10):511–512.
• Harris P, Friel S, Wilson A. Including health in systems responsible for urban planning’: a realist policy analysis research programme. BMJ Open 2015;5:e008822. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008822
• Atkinson JM, Wells R, Page A, Dominello A, Haines M, Wilson A. Applications of system dynamics modelling to support health policy. Public Health Res Pract 2015;25(3):e2531531
• Hawe P. Minimal, negligible and negligent interventions. Soc Sci Med. 2015;138:265–268
• Rachele JN, Kavanagh, AM, Badland H, Giles-Corti B, Washington S, Turrell G. Associations between individual socioeconomic position, neighbourhood disadvantage and transport mode: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2015;69:1217–1223. doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-205620.
• Badland H, Mavoa S, Livingston M, David S, Giles-Corti B. Testing spatial measures of alcohol outlet density with self-rated health in the Australian context: Implications for policy and practice. Drug and Alcohol Review 2016;35(3):298-306. doi: 10.1111/dar.12341
• Feng X, Wilson A. Do neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances not matter for weight status among Australian men? Multilevel evidence from a household survey of 14,691 adults. BMJ Open 2015;5:e007052. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007052
• Kite J, Hector D, St George A, Pedisic Z, Phongsavan P, Bauman A, Mitchell J, Bellew B. Comprehensive sector-wide strategies to prevent and control obesity: what are the potential health and broader societal benefits? A case study from Australia. Public Health Res Pract 2015;25(4):e2541545. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2541545
• Feng X, Wilson A Getting Bigger, Quicker? Gendered Socioeconomic Trajectories in Body Mass Index across the Adult Lifecourse: A Longitudinal Study of 21,403 Australians. PLoS ONE  2015;10(10): e0141499. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141499
• Carey G, Malbon E, Carey N, Joyce A, Crammond B, Carey A. Systems science and systems thinking for public health: a systematic review of the field. BMJ Open 2015;5:e009002.doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009002
• Kite J, Indig D, Mihrshahi S, Milat A, Bauman A. Assessing the usefulness of systematic reviews for policymakers in public health: A case study of overweight and obesity prevention interventions.Prev Med 2015;81:99-107. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.08.012

2014

• Wilson A. Budget cuts risk halting Australia’s progress in preventing chronic disease. Med J Aust 2014;200(10):558-559. doi: 10.5694/mja14.00726.
• Giles-Corti B, Badland H, Mavoa S, Turrell G, Bull F, Boruff B, Pettit C, Redman S, Bauman A, Hooper P, Villanueva K, Astell-Burt T, Feng X, Learnihan V, Davey R, Grenfell R, Thackway S. Reconnecting urban planning with health: a protocol for the development and validation of national liveability indicators associated with noncommunicable disease risk behaviours and health outcomes. Public Health Res Practice 2014;25(1):e2511405.
• Siokou C, Morgan R, Shiell A. Group model building: a participatory approach to understanding and acting on systems. Public Health Res Practice 2014;25(1):e2511404.
• Wilson A, Wutzke S, Overs M. The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre: systems thinking to prevent lifestyle-related chronic illness. Public Health Res Practice 2014;25(1):e2511401.
• Giles-Corti B, Macaulay G, Middleton N, Boruff B, Bull F, Butterworth I, Badland H, Mavoa S, Roberts R, Christian H. Developing a research and practice tool to measure walkability: a demonstration project. Health Promot J Austr 2014;25,160–166.

Fact sheets

The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

This fact sheet sets out key information about the Prevention Centre, including our mission, objectives and approach, our work plan and partners.

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Progress report

Strengthening the system: A partnership approach to chronic disease prevention

This is our mid-term progress report.

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Reports

Australian health cohorts

Population cohort studies have the potential to be a valuable resource for population health researchers. However, cohort studies have not traditionally been used to test the effects of policy and practice in population health outcomes in Australia. This report is intended as a resource for researchers and policy makers that summarises Australian longitudinal datasets.

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Chronic disease prevention landscape: Results of a national key informant survey

This report highlights key findings of interviews with senior public health managers from State and Territory health departments as well as senior academics, thought leaders and public health advocates from key agencies across the country. The interviews explore views about the 2005 National Chronic Disease Strategy, and responses to the cancellation of the National Partnership Agreement for Preventive Health, focusing on adjustments made to prevention programs in each State or Territory and the factors that influenced decision-making.

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Commissioning Economic Evaluations: A Guide

Published by the NSW Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health, this guide was produced to assist NSW Health staff in the commissioning of economic evaluations, particularly in relation to population health programs. It was produced as part of the Improving the economic analysis of prevention project.

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Mapping the preventive health workforce – An overview

On behalf of the Australian National Preventive Health Agency, the Prevention Centre commissioned the University of Sydney’s Workplace Research Centre to map the preventive health workforce. The report describes a framework for collecting data about preventive health activities and the workforce that is delivering those activities.

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Discussion papers

Knowledge synthesis and policy dialogue products

The Prevention Centre has a mandate to co-create and mobilise evidence and other forms of knowledge to support preventive health policy and practice. This includes making available to decision makers any evidence that we compile, review and generate across our research projects – drawing on investigators’ expertise to interpret and communicate these findings. Much of this evidence will be published in journal articles, but the Centre will also produce other synthesis and communication products, such as evidence summaries, policy briefs on the real-world implications of our findings, prevention action statements and facts sheets.

A discussion paper and a table of knowledge synthesis and communication products outlines these options.

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The discussion paper covers simulation models that are developed collaboratively with a diverse group of experts to build consensus on the merits, risks and costs of alternative policy options. Two Prevention Centre projects are gathering evidence using this participatory simulation modelling process: Simulation modelling of alcohol consumption and the effectiveness of harm-reduction policies and Simulation modelling to support decision making in gestational diabetes care.

What is systems thinking and how does it apply to prevention in The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre?

This discussion paper, written by the Prevention Centre’s Systems Science and Implementation Capacity, aims to develop common language around the ways Prevention Centre investigators and collaborators engage with systems terminology and systems thinking in prevention, and identifies examples of how the Centre’s work program takes a systems approach to prevention.

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Submissions

2018

• August: Senate Select Committee into the obesity epidemic in Australia.