Publications

Published research

2020

• Haynes A, Rowbotham S, Grunseit A, Bohn-Goldbaum E, Slaytor E, et al. Knowledge mobilisation in practice: an evaluation of The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. Health Res Policy Syst. 2020 Jan 31;18(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s12961-019-0496-0
• Conte KP, Davidson S. Using a ‘rich picture’ to facilitate systems thinking in research coproduction. Health Res Policy Syst. 2020 Jan 31;18(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s12961-019-0514-2
• Milat A, Lee K, Conte K, Grunseit A, Wolfenden L, van Nassau F, et al. Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A decision support tool for health policy makers and implementers. Health Res Policy Sys. 2020;18:1. doi: 10.1186/s12961-019-0494-2
• Grøn S, Loblay V, Conte KP, Green A, Innes-Hughes C, et al. Key performance indicators for program scale-up and divergent practice styles: A study from NSW, Australia. Health Promot Int. 2020:daaa001. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daaa001. [Epub ahead of print.]
• Needham C, Orellana L, Sacks G, Robinson R, Allender S, Strugnell C. A systematic review of the Australian food retail environment: Characteristics, variation by geographic area, socio-economic position and associations with diet and obesity. Obes Rev. 2020; 21(2). doi: 10.1111/obr.12941

2019

• Hill B, Hayden M, McPhie S, Bailey C, Skouteris H. Preconception and antenatal knowledge and beliefs about gestational weight gain. ANZJOG, 2019;1–7. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12942
• Sacks G, Robinson E, Cameron AJ. Issues in measuring the healthiness of food environments and interpreting relationships with diet, obesity and related health outcomes. Current Obesity Reports. 2019;1–14
• Pescud M, Sargent G, Kelly P, Friel S. How does whole of government action address inequities in obesity? A case study from Australia. Int J Equity Health. 2019;18(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s12939-019-0913-6
• Crane M, Bohn-Goldbaum E, Lloyd B, Rissel C, Bauman A, Indig D, Khanal S, Grunseit A. Evaluation of Get Healthy at Work, a state-wide workplace health promotion program in Australia. BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):183. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6493-y
• Phiddian E, Hoepner J, McKinnon M. Can interactive science exhibits be used to communicate population health science concepts? Crit Public Health. 2019; doi: 10.1080/09581596.2019.1575948
• Wolfenden L, Chai LK, Jones J, McFadyen T, Hodder R et al. What happens once a program has been implemented? A call for research investigating strategies to enhance public health program sustainability. Aust NZ J Publ Heal. 2019;43(1):3-4. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12867
• Crosland P, Ananthapavan J, Davison J, Lambert M, Carter R. The health burden of preventable disease in Australia: a systematic review. Aust NZ J Public Health. 2019. Online. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12882
• Zapata-Diomedi B, Boulange C, Giles-Corti B, Phelan K, Washington S, Lennert Veerman J, Dubrelle Gunn L. Physical activity-related health and economic benefits of building walkable neighbourhoods: a modelled comparison between brownfield and greenfield developments. Int J Behav Nutr Phy. 2019;16:11. doi: 10.1186/s12966-019-0775-8
• Jeffrey D, Boulange C, Giles-Corti B, Washington S, Gunn L. Using walkability measures to identify train stations with the potential to become transit oriented developments located in walkable neighbourhoods. J Transp Geogr. 2019; 76 (221-231). doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.03.009
• Crane M, Bauman A, Lloyd B, McGill B, Rissel C, Grunseit A. Applying pragmatic approaches to complex program evaluation: a case study of implementation of the New South Wales Get Healthy at Work program. Health Promot J Austr. 2019. doi: 10.1002/hpja.239. [Epub ahead of print]
• Cullerton K, Adams J, Forouhi N, Francis O, White M. What principles should guide interactions between population health researchers and the food industry? Systematic scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature. Obesity reviews. 2019;1–12. doi: 10.1111/obr.12851
• Gwynn J, Sim K, Searle T, Senior A, Lee A, Brimblecombe J. Effect of nutrition interventions on diet-related and health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: a systematic review. BMJ Open 2019.
• Heris CL, Eades SJ, Lyons L, Chamberlain C, Thomas DP. Changes in the age young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people start smoking, 2002–2015. Public Health Res Pract. 2019; Online early publication.
• Feng X, Wilson A. Does dissatisfaction with, or accurate perception of overweight status help people reduce weight? Longitudinal study of Australian adults BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):619. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6938-3.
• Jancey J, Leavy JE, Pollard C, Riley T, Szybiak M et al. Exploring network structure and the role of key stakeholders to understand the obesity prevention system in an Australian metropolitan health service: study protocol. BMJ Open. 2019 May 24;9(5):e027948. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027948
• Rowbotham S, Conte K, Hawe P. Variation in the operationalisation of dose in implementation of health promotion interventions: insights and recommendations from a scoping review. Implement Sci. 2019;14:56. doi:10.1186/s13012-019-0899-x
• Baugh Littlejohns L, Wilson A. Strengthening complex systems for chronic disease prevention: a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):729. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7021-9
• Freebairn L, Atkinson JA, Osgood ND, Kelly P, McDonnell G, Rychetnik L. Turning conceptual systems maps into dynamic simulation models: An Australian case study for diabetes in pregnancy. PLOS One. Online. 2019. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218875
• Baker P, Brown AD, Wingrove K, Allender S, Wall H, Cullerton K, Lee A, Demaio A, Lawrence M. Generating political commitment for ending malnutrition in all its forms: A system dynamics approach for strengthening nutrition actor networks. Obes Rev. 2019. doi: 10.1111/obr.12871. (Epub ahead of print)
• Pearce C, Rychetnik L, Wutzke S, Wilson A. Obesity prevention and the role of hospital and community-based health services: a scoping review. BMC Health Services Research. 2019;19:453. doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4262-3
• Woolcott G, Keast R, Tsasis P, Lipina S, Chamberlain D. Reconceptualising Person-Centered Service Models as Social Ecology Networks in Supporting Integrated Care. Int J Integr Care. 2019;19(2):11. doi:10.5334/ijic.4222.
• Grunseit AC, Bohn-Goldbaum E, Crane M, Milat A, Cashmore A, Fonua R, Gow A, Havrlant R, Reid K, Hennessey K, Firth W, Bauman A. Participant profile and impacts of an Aboriginal healthy lifestyle and weight loss challenge over four years 2012-2015. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2019. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12914. [Epub ahead of print]
• Cullerton K, White T, Lee A. Doctors Rule: An Analysis of Health Ministers’ Diaries in Australia. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019;16(13), 2440. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132440
• Rowbotham S, McKinnon M, Marks L, Hawe P. Research on media framing of public policies to prevent chronic disease: A narrative synthesis. Social Science & Medicine. 2019;237, 112428. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112428
• Kite J, Grunseit A, Li V, Vineburg J, Berton N, Bauman A, Freeman B. Generating Engagement on the Make Healthy Normal Campaign Facebook Page: Analysis of Facebook Analytics. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2019;14;5(1):e11132. doi: 10.2196/11132
• Crosland P, Ananthapavan J, Davison J, Lambert M, Carter R. The economic cost of preventable disease in Australia: a systematic review of estimates and methods. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2019. Online. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12925
• Sacks G, Vanderlee L, Robinson E, Vandevijvere S, Cameron AJ et al. BIA‐Obesity (Business Impact Assessment—Obesity and population‐level nutrition): A tool and process to assess food company policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and population nutrition at the national level. Obes Rev. 2019. doi: 10.1111/obr.12878
• O’Brien EC, Segurado R, Geraghty AA, Alberdi G, Rogozinska E, Astrup A, et al. Impact of maternal education on response to lifestyle interventions to reduce gestational weight gain: individual participant data meta-analysis. International Weight Management in Pregnancy (i-WIP) Collaborative Group. August 2019. BMJ Open. August 2019;9(8):e025620. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025620
• Tay CT, Teede HJ, Hill B, Loxton D, Joham, AE. Increased prevalence of eating disorders, low self-esteem and psychological distress in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a community-based cohort study. Fertility and Sterility. August 2019;112(2):353–61. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.03.027
• Bennett C, Walker R, Blumfield M, Gwini S, Ma J. Wang F, Wan Y, Truby H. Attenuation of maternal weight gain impacts infant birthweight: systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. August 2019;10(4):387–405. doi: 10.1017/S2040174418000879
• Lim S, Liang X, Hill B, Teede H, Moran LJ, O’Reilly S. A systematic review and meta‐analysis of intervention characteristic in postpartum weight management using the TIDieR framework: A summary of evidence to inform implementation. Obesity Reviews. 2019;20(7):1045–56. doi: 10.1017/S2040174418000879
• Khan NN, Boyle JA, Lang AY, Harrison CL. Preconception health attitudes and behaviours of women: A qualitative investigation. Nutrients. 2019;11(7):1490. doi: 10.3390/nu11071490
• Hill B, Kothe EJ, Currie S, Danby M, Lang AY, et al. A systematic mapping review of the associations between pregnancy intentions and health-related lifestyle behaviours or psychological wellbeing. Preventive Medicine Reports. June 2019;14. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100869
• Hill B, Hayden M, McPhie, S, Bailey C, Skouteris H. Preconception and antenatal knowledge and beliefs about gestational weight gain. ANZJOG, 2019:1–7. Manuscript ID ANZJOG-2018-0271.R1 (Impact Factor 1.766).
• Conte KP, Shahid A, Grøn S, Loblay V, Green A, Innes-Hughes C, Milat A, Persson L, Williams M, Thackway S, Mitchell J, Hawe P. Capturing implementation knowledge: applying focused ethnography to study how implementers generate and manage knowledge in the scale-up of obesity prevention programs. Implement Sci. 2019;14:91.
• Hawe P, Conte K.P, Groen S, Loblay V, Green A et al. Mock abstracts with mock findings: a device to catalyse production, interpretation and use of knowledge outputs in a university policy-practice-research partnership. Evid Policy. 2019 Oct 09.
• Hopkins L, Chamberlain D, Held F, Riley T, Wang JZJ , Conte K. Collaborative networks in chronic disease prevention: What factors inhibit partnering for funding? 2019.  International Journal of Public Administration. Doi: 10.1080/01900692.2019.1669177
• Keane L, Kite J, Grunseit A, Vineburg J, Tawil V, Thomas M. ‘Perceived fit’, ‘understanding’, and ‘communication’: key factors underpinning stakeholder and partnership engagement with the Make Healthy Normal campaign. Health Promot J Austr. 2019 Oct 29. doi: 10.1002/hpja.302. Epub ahead of print.
• Haynes A, Garvey K, Davidson S, Milat A. What can policy-makers get out of systems thinking? Policy partners’ experiences of a systems-focused research collaboration in preventive health. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2019; 1–12. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2019.86
• Nau T, Lee K, Smith Ben J, Bellew W, Reece L et al. Toward whole-of-system action to promote for physical activity: A cross-sectoral analysis of physical activity policy in Australia. J Phys Act Health. 2019;16:1029–38. doi:10.1123/jpah.2019-0122
• Heris CL, Chamberlain C, Gubhaju L, Thomas DP, Eades SJ. Factors influencing smoking among Indigenous adolescents aged 10–24 years living in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States: A systematic review. Nicotine Tob Res. 2019. Doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntz219
• Hill B, Skouteris H, Teede HJ, Bailey C, Baxter JB, et al. Health in preconception, pregnancy and postpartum global alliance: International network preconception research priorities for the prevention of maternal obesity and related pregnancy and long-term complications. J. Clin. Med. 2019:8;2119. Doi:10.3390/jcm8122119
• Bellew W, Smith BJ, Nau T, Lee K, Reece L, Bauman A. Whole of systems approaches to physical activity policy and practice in Australia: The ASAPa project overview and initial systems map. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2019. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2019-0121 [Ahead of print section]
• Walker R, Ollander EK, Willey S, Hill B, Skouteris H. Weight management across pregnancy and postpartum care: The need for interprofessional education and collaboration. 2019;41:102651. Nurse Educ Pract. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00163
• Lim SS, Tan A, Madden S, Hill B. Health professionals’ and postpartum women’s perspectives on digital health interventions for lifestyle management in the postpartum period: A systematic review of qualitative studies. 2019;10:163. Front Endocrinol. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00767
• Skinner A, Walker P, Atkinson J-A, Whitehead R, Roselli T, et al. Policy options for endgame planning in tobacco control: a simulation modelling study. Tob Control 2019;0:1–7. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055126
• Swinburn BA, Kraak VI, Allender S, Atkins VJ, Baker PI, et al. The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change: The Lancet Commission report. Lancet. 2019. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32822-8
• Oostenbach L, Slits E, Robinson E, Sacks G. Systematic review of the impact of nutrition claims related to fat, sugar and energy content on food choices and energy intake, BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):1296. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7622-3
• Clarke B, Swinburn BA, Sacks G. Investigating menu kilojoule labelling policy adoption from a political science and systems perspective. Food Policy. 2019;89. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101784
• Clarke B, Swinburn BA, Sacks G. Understanding the LiveLighter obesity prevention policy decision-making process: an investigation using political science and systems thinking. Soc Sci Med. 2020;246. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112757
• Bennett R, Zorbas C, Huse O, Peeters A, Cameron A, et al. Prevalence of healthy and unhealthy food and beverage price promotions and their influence on consumer purchasing behaviour– a systematic review of the literature. Obes Rev. 2019;21(1). doi: 10.1111/obr.12948
• Riesenberg D, Backholer K, Zorbas C, Sacks G, Paix A, et al. Price promotions by food category and Product Healthiness in an Australian supermarket chain, 2017-2018. Am J Public Health. 2019;109. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305229
• Esdaile E, Thow AM, Gill T, Sacks G, Golley R, et al. National policies to prevent obesity in early childhood: using policy mapping to compare policy lessons for Australia with six developed countries. Obes Rev. 2019;20(11). doi: 10.1111/obr.12925
• Backholer K, Sacks G, Cameron A. Food and beverage price promotions: An untapped policy target for improving population diets and health. Curr Nutr Rep. 2019;8(3). doi: 10.1007/s13668-019-00287-z
• Robertson N, Sacks G, Miller P. The revolving door of politics, government and the alcohol, food and gambling industries in Australia. Public Health Res Pract. 2019;29(3). doi: 10.17061/phrp2931921
• Fooks G, Williams S, Box G, Sacks G. Corporations’ use and misuse of evidence to influence health policy: a case study of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. Globalization Health. 2019;15(56). doi: 10.1186/s12992-019-0495-5
• Friel S, Krieger N. Climate change and the people’s health. Oxford University Press. 2019. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190492731.001.0001

2018

• 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
• McGill B, O’Hara BJ, Phongsavan P. Participant perspectives of a 6-month telephone-based lifestyle coaching program. Public Health Res Pract; 2018; 28(2):327451705. doi: org/10.17061/phrp27451705
• 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
• 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.
• 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]
• 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. 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]
• 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 1017/S1368980018002082
• 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
• Slaytor E, Wilson A, Rowbotham S, Signy H, Burgess A, Wutzke S. Partnering to prevent chronic disease: reflections and achievements from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. Public Health Res Pract. 2018;28(3):e2831821. Doi:10.17061/phrp2831821
• Lee AJ, Kane S , Lewis M, Good E,  Pollard CM, Landrigan TJ and Dick M. Healthy diets ASAP – Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing methods protocol. Nutrition Journal 2018;17:88. doi: org/10.1186/s12937-018-0396-0
• 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.
• Green AM, Innes-Hughes C, Rissel C, Mitchell J, Milat AJ, Williams M, Persson L, Thackway S, Lewis N, Wiggers J. Codesign of the Population Health Information Management System to measure reach and practice change of childhood obesity programs. Public Health Res Pract. 2018;28(3):e2831822. https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp2831822
• Conte K, Hawe P. Will E-Monitoring of Policy and Program Implementation Stifle or Enhance Practice? How Would We Know? Public Health, 2018; doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00243
• Lee A, Ride K. Review of programs and services to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and food security. Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. 2018;18(4). Available from: https://healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/learn/health-facts/reviews-knowledge-exchange-products/
• Freund M, Zucca A, Sanson-Fisher R, Milat A, Mackenzie L, Turon H. Barriers to the evaluation of evidence-based public health policy. First Online: 02 October 2018. Doi:10.1057/s41271-018-0145-9. Available from: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41271-018-0145-9
• Feng X, Astell-Burt T, Badland H, Mavoa S, Giles-Corti B. Modest ratios of fast food outlets to supermarkets and green grocers are associated with higher body mass index: Longitudinal analysis of a sample of 15,229 Australians aged 45 years and older in the Australian National Liveability Study. Health Place. 2018;49:101-110. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.10.004
• Mavoa, S, Eagleson S, Badland HM, Gunn L, Boulange C et al. Identifying appropriate land use mix measures for use in a national walkability index. J Transp Land Use. 2018;11:1. doi: 10.5198/jtlu.2018.1132
• Shanthosh J, Angell B, Wilson A, Latimer J, Hackett ML, Eades AM, Jan S. Generating sustainable collective action: Models of community control and governance of alcohol supply in Indigenous minority populations. Int J Drug Policy. 2018;62:78-85. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.09.011.
• Mihrshahi S, Gow ML, Baur LA. Contemporary approaches to the prevention and management of paediatric obesity: an Australian focus. Med J Australia. 2018;209 (6): 267-274. doi: 10.5694/mja18.00140
• Mihrshahi S, Baur LA. What exposures in early life are risk factors for childhood obesity? J Paediatr Child Health. 2018; doi: 10.1111/jpc.14195.
• Love P, Whelan J, Bell C, Grainger F, Russell C, Lewis M, Lee A. Healthy Diets in Rural Victoria – Cheaper than Unhealthy Alternatives, Yet Unaffordable. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018;15, 2469. doi: doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112469
• Wutzke S, Rowbotham S, Haynes A, Hawe P, Kelly P, Redman S, Davidson S, Stephenson J, Overs M, Wilson A. Knowledge mobilisation for chronic disease prevention: the case of the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. Health Res Policy Sy. 2018;16:109. doi: 10.1186/s12961-018-0379-9
• Wutzke S, Morrice E, Benton M, Milat A, Russell L, Wilson A. Australia’s National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health: Critical reflections from states and territories. Health Promot J Austr. 2018;29(3):228-235. doi: 10.1002/hpja.9
• Freebairn L, Atkinson JA, Kelly P, McDonnell G, Rychetnik L. Decision makers’ experience of participatory dynamic simulation modelling: methods for public health policy. BMC Med Inform Decis. 2018; doi.org/10.1186/s12911-018-0707-6
• Lee A, Lewis M. Testing the Price of Healthy and Current Diets in Remote Aboriginal Communities to Improve Food Security: Development of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healthy Diets ASAP (Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing) Methods. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018;15, 2912. doi:10.3390/ijerph15122912
• Baugh Littlejohns L, Baum F, Lawless A, Freeman T. The value of a causal loop diagram in exploring the complex interplay of factors that influence health promotion in a multisectoral health system in Australia. Health Res Policy Sy. 2018;16:126. doi:10.1186/s12961-018-0394-x
• Baugh Littlejohns LK, Willis CD. Collaborative Value Creation Framework: The Potential for Strengthening Intersectoral Partnerships in Chronic Disease Prevention. Prog Comm Hlth Partn. 2018;12(4), 463-472.
• Mackay S, Buch T, Vandevijvere S, Goodwin R, Korohina E, Funaki-Tahifote M, Lee A, Swinburn B.Cost and Affordability of Diets Modelled on Current Eating Patterns and on Dietary Guidelines, for New Zealand Total Population, Māori and Pacific Households. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018;15(6), 1255. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061255
• Kothe E, Lamb M, Bruce L, McPhie S, Klas A, Hill B, Skouteris H. Student midwives’ intention to deliver weight management interventions: A theory of planned behaviour & self-determination theory approach. Nurse Education Today. 2018:71;10–16 (online publication).
• Keane L, Kite J, Grunseit A, Vineburg J, Tawil V, Thomas M. ‘Perceived fit’, ‘understanding’, and ‘communication’: key factors underpinning stakeholder and partnership engagement with the Make Healthy Normal campaign. Health Promot J Austr. 2019 Oct 29. doi: 10.1002/hpja.302. Epub ahead of print.

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: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.
• WillisCD, 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: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. 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. 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 interventionsBMC 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;63: 537. 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.

The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre factsheet

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

• Download the factsheet (PDF, 396KB)

About chronic disease in Australia

This factsheet covers the burden of chronic disease in Australia and how the Prevention Centre is tackling the problem.

• Download the factsheet

Prevention factsheets

We have prepared a series of factsheets about prevention that cover key issues in a concise and accessible way.

• Visit the Prevention factsheets page

Prevention Centre reports

Outcomes report 2013 – 2018

Changing the system: A partnership approach to chronic disease prevention

Our outcomes report captures the outcomes and impact from the work we completed during our first five years of funding. Download the Outcomes report (PDF, 6MB)

Progress report 2016

Strengthening the system: A partnership approach to chronic disease prevention

This report describes our achievements during the first three years, including establishing a large national collaboration, launching our projects and learning about working in co-production. Download the Progress report (PDF, 3.9MB)

Research project reports

AUSPOPS 2016–2019. Second national survey

The AUStralian Perceptions Of Prevention Survey (AUSPOPS) was undertaken in 2016 and again in 2018 to understand how Australian communities perceive government interventions aimed at reducing lifestyle-related chronic disease. This report measures and tracks views about prevention. Download the report

Building the compelling case for prevention 

The Compelling Case for Prevention final report outlines the delivery of a proof-of-concept demonstration of the potential of dynamic simulation methods to provide an engaging and useful tool that illustrates the health benefits and economic value of prevention interventions for the population, the health system and Australian productivity. Download the report for phase 1 (PDF, 2.3MB)

Preventive health: How much does Australia spend and is it enough?

This report by Hannah Jackson and Alan Shiell summarises the available evidence for national levels of expenditure on preventive
health over the past 15 years, and compares spending in Australia with that of selected OECD countries. Download the report

Health Promotion Journal of Australia, special issue. How would you spend $100 million a year on preventive health?

To gain a sense of where prevention resources could be targeted most effectively, we funded and commissioned this special issue of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, asking Australian and international leaders in preventive health what would happen if prevention spending were to be increased by 5% of the current annual budget, or about $100 million per year. Download the special issue

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. Download the report 

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. Download the report

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. Download the report

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. Download the report

Submissions

2018

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

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.

• Download the discussion paper (PDF, 113 KB)
• Download the table (PDF, 136KB)

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.

• Download the discussion paper (PDF, 800KB)

Guides

The Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool (ISAT) was developed to help practitioners, policymakers, program managers and researchers determine the scalability of a discrete health program or intervention. Information on how to complete an assessment can be found in the guide below. A scoring sheet in Excel is also available to help score readiness questions within the guide.

• The Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A guide for assessing the scalability of health interventions (PDF 1.3MB)
• The ISAT scoring sheet (Excel 76KB)

Prevention resources

OECD Report

The heavy burden of obesity:The economics of prevention