2009 PHCRED Tri-State Conference - Alice Springs

The 2009 PHCRED Tri-State Conference was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Alice Springs on 24th -25th September 2009. The conference, attended by about 60 researchers addressed the following:

• Key issues in Primary Health Care
• Research in progress
• Capacity building and networking

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Key Speakers

Professor John Wakerman is the Inaugural Director of the Centre for Remote Health, a Joint Centre of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, in Alice Springs. He is a Public Health Medicine specialist and general practitioner, with a long background in remote primary health care services as a medical practitioner, senior manager and researcher. He is an active advocate for rural and remote health issues. He has specific academic interests in remote health services research and health management education. For the past several years, he has been investigating the nature of sustainable PHC services to remote and small rural communities.

Lesley Barclay (AO PhD) was the foundation Professor of Health Services Development at Charles Darwin University and led the Graduate School for Health Practice prior to coming to Northern Rivers to take up the position as Professor and Director of the University Department of Rural Health. Lesley is a maternal child health researcher whose projects have improved maternity services in Australia and internationally. Lesley Barclay has led over 30 competitive research projects in the last decade, and has been or is a CI on 13 funded by NHMRC or ARC in this period, leading 8 of these. In the last 10 years she has supervised 24 doctoral students, published an international prize winning book with another under contract to be competed this year, 51 refereed research based journal articles and over 15 major reports for governments. Lesley Barclay has worked in international development for nearly 20 years with AusAID, World Bank and WHO, providing advice in primary health care, maternal infant/child health and capacity building in health worker education systems in Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific Islands. She was awarded an AO in 2004 in recognition of her contribution to professional and international development and child health.

Keyspeaker Presentations

	Title	Author(s)
	Sustainable primary health care models in rural and remote Australia	Prof John Wakerman
	Remote Aboriginal Birthing: the role of research in improving systems	Prof Lesley Barclay

Workshop

	Title	Author(s)
	Primary Health Care Evaluation	Gwyn Jolley, SACHRU

Presentations

	Title	Author(s)
	Awareness, perception and knowledge of cardiovascular disease and prevention among residents in the north western districts of Adelaide	Ms Jessica Broadbent, University of Adelaide
	Community Perceptions of the Determinants of Health in the Mid North Towns of Booleroo Centre, Jamestown, Orroroo, Peterborough and Surrounding Districts	A/Prof Gary Misan, SGRHS
	Learning from Comprehensive Primary Health Care Experiences: the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Male Health Program case study	Clive Rosewarne and Korey Summers, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
	Building evaluation capacity in non government organizations: an action research approach	Dr Phil Entwistle, CRH
	Now more than ever … PHC – and – CBR (Community Based Rehabilitation)	Dr Pim Kuipers, CRH
	Making Your Message Stick: Dissemination for change	A/Prof Ellen McIntyre, PHC RIS
	Research or Making Marmalade?	Dr Ameeta Patel, NT General Practice Education
	"Indigenous Minds" A paradigm for Primary Health Care Research	Mr John Binda Reid, CRH
	Supporting Indigenous researchers: a practical guide for supervisors	Ms Alison Laycock, Co operative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
	The prevalence and distribution of poor health literacy in a regional SA community: use of the short Test of Functional Health Literacy (s-TOFHLA)	Ms Helen Mills, SGRHS
	Determinants of e-health usage a random population survey	Ms Nova Reinfeld-Kirkman, Flinders University
	Opening Up the Black Box of Guideline Implementation	Ms Ann McKillop, University of Aukland
	Evaluation of the Port Lincoln Healthy Weight Challenge	A/Prof Gary Misan, SGRHS
	A Review of Primary Health Care Management of Chronic Heart Failure in Two Towns of Rural South Australia	Ms Katie Hondow, SGRHS
	Methods for Researching Chronic Condition Management Strategies in Aboriginal Communities	Ms Yvonne Helps, Aboriginal Council of SA
	Evaluation of the transition of allied health professionals to rural and remote practice project	Dr Rupesh Goel, SGRHS
	A Pilot Study: Rates of undiagnosed lung function abnormality in Whyalla South Australia	A/Prof Gary Misan, SGRHS
	The prevalence of pathological pulmonary change and genetic predisposition to pulmonary oedema in occupational divers	Dr Anne Wilson, University of Adelaide
	Paternal Post Natal Depression in First Time Fathers: a Grounded Theory Analysis	Ms Karina Bria, University of Adelaide
	Piloting a Behavioural Activation Treatment for Adolescent Depression	Dr Alison Wallis, Flinders University
	Provider responses to the Primary Health Care Strategy (NZ)	Dr Mary Finlayson, University of Auckland

Posters

Conference Photos