Cancer screening in Australia is the focus of the latest issue of PHRP, which was supported by and developed in partnership with Cancer Council Australia and Cancer Institute NSW. Articles explore a range of topics on this theme, from ways to increase participation in the bowel screening program to new approaches and technologies to improve breast screening.
Read more →On 1 August 2019, Professor Adrian Barnett, Queensland University of Technology presented a HSRAANZ webinar on the current crisis in health and medical statistics and the potential to increase the value of health and medical research by promoting better statistical practice. A recording and the slides from the presentation are now available to view.
Read more →New Zealand Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield has marked the release of a new Ministry publication Achieving Equity in Health Outcomes: Summary of a Discovery Process, with a video discussing how achieving more equitable health for all New Zealanders requires commissioning work with equity at front of mind. Dr Bloomfield will open the HSRAANZ’s Conference this December, which will focus on the role of HSR in addressing health service inequities to improve health systems performance.
Read more →With funding support from AcademyHealth, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Board of Family Medicine, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of American Medical Colleges, Federation of American Hospitals, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a new National Academy of Medicine special publication identifies the range of issues that health services research must consider, address, and potentially overcome to transform the field to meet the needs of a 21st-century health care system in the United States.
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