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Australian Industrial Transformation Institute
AITI is a trans-disciplinary research venture, bringing social scientists, scientists and engineers together to work collaboratively with industry, government and communities. -
Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer
The Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC) is a leading cancer centre in Australia, housing world-class care and survivorship services alongside innovative cancer prevention and early intervention research. -
Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research
The Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research aims to improve outcomes for patients with blinding eye conditions affecting our community.. -
Flinders Digital Health Research Centre
The Flinders Digital Health Research Centre is a multidisciplinary research entity, established as a cornerstone in Flinders University’s expansion in the health technology domain. -
Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities
Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities unites humanities-based researchers engaged in creative and reflective investigations of culture and thought. -
Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity
The Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity leads high quality scholarship on the social and economic determinants of health and health equity.
Recent Submissions
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Adapting, Pilot Testing and Evaluating the Kick.it App to Support Smoking Cessation for Smokers with Severe Mental Illness: A Study Protocol
(MDPI, 2018-02-03)(1) Background: While the prevalence of tobacco smoking in the general population has declined, it remains exceptionally high for smokers with severe mental illness (SMI), despite significant public health measures. This ... -
Challenging Institutional Norms to Improve Local-Level Policy for Health and Health Equity. Comment on “Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-08-04)The article by Susanne Hagen and colleagues on Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway discusses actions by municipal governments to assess and address heath inequities within their respective regions, as required under ... -
Addressing health equity through action on the social determinants of health: a global review of policy outcome evaluation methods
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-02-06)Background: Epidemiological evidence on the social determinants of health inequity is well-advanced, but considerably less attention has been given to evaluating the impact of public policies addressing those social ... -
Community health worker programs to improve healthcare access and equity: are they only relevant to low- and middle-income countries?
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-07-01)Background: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are proven to be highly effective in low- and middle-income countries with many examples of successful large-scale programs. There is growing interest in deploying CHW programs ... -
What enables and constrains the inclusion of the social determinants of health inequities in government policy agendas? A narrative review
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2017-11-11)Background Despite decades of evidence gathering and calls for action, few countries have systematically attenuated health inequities (HI) through action on the social determinants of health (SDH). This is at least partly ... -
Including Health in Environmental Assessments of Major Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Documentary Analysis
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2017-05-10)Transport policy and practice impacts health. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are regulated public policy mechanisms that can be used to consider the health impacts of major transport projects before they are ... -
Crowd-sourced Ontology for Photoleukocoria: Identifying Common Internet Search Terms for a Potentially Important Pediatric Ophthalmic Sign
(ARVO Journals, 2018-02-15)Purpose: Leukocoria is the most common presenting sign for pediatric eye disease including retinoblastoma and cataract, with worse outcomes if diagnosis is delayed. We investigated whether individuals could identify ... -
Economic evaluation of point-of-care testing in the remote primary health care setting of Australia’s Northern Territory
(Dove Press, 2018-05-29)Aim: To determine the cost-effectiveness of utilizing point-of-care testing (POCT) on the Abbott i-STAT device as a support tool to aid decisions regarding the emergency medical retrievals of patients at remote health ... -
A mixed methods systematic review of studies examining the relationship between housing and health for people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds
(Elsevier, 2018-07-27)Housing is an important social determinant of health and a key element of refugee integration into countries of resettlement. However, the way in which housing may affect mental and physical health for refugees and asylum ... -
miR-200/375 control epithelial plasticity-associated alternative splicing by repressing the RNA-binding protein Quaking
(EMBO Press/Wiley, 2018-06-05)Members of the miR‐200 family are critical gatekeepers of the epithelial state, restraining expression of pro‐mesenchymal genes that drive epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and contribute to metastatic cancer ... -
Angiogenic and Immunologic Proteins Identified by Deep Proteomic Profiling of Human Retinal and Choroidal Vascular Endothelial Cells: Potential Targets for New Biologic Drugs
(Elsevier, 2018-03-17)Purpose Diseases that involve retinal or choroidal vascular endothelial cells are leading causes of vision loss: age-related macular degeneration, retinal ischemic vasculopathies, and noninfectious posterior uveitis. ... -
Genome-wide association study of intraocular pressure uncovers new pathways to glaucoma
(Springer Nature, 2018-07-27)Intraocular pressure (IOP) is currently the sole modifiable risk factor for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Both IOP and POAG are highly heritable. We report a combined ... -
Health system barriers influencing perinatal survival in mountain villages of Nepal: implications for future policies and practices
(BioMed Central, 2018-07-05)Background This paper aims to examine the health care contexts shaping perinatal survival in remote mountain villages of Nepal. Health care is provided through health services to a primary health care ... -
Demand for Colonoscopy in Colorectal Cancer Screening Using a Quantitative Fecal Immunochemical Test and Age-Sex-Specific Thresholds for Test Positivity
(Elsevier, 2018-06)Background: Despite age and sex differences in fecal hemoglobin (f-Hb) concentrations, most fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening programs use population-average cut-points for test positivity. The impact of age/sex-specific ... -
Health-Related Quality of Life among Women Breast Cancer Patients in Eastern China
(Hindawi, 2018-07-03)Objectives. Breast cancer is one of the major cancers in Chinese women. European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaires (EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-BR23) are now the most common and ... -
Letter to the Editor: Simultaneous presentation of hereditary hyperferritinaemia cataract syndrome and hereditary haemochromatosis
(Wiley, 2018-05-08)"No abstract is available for this article"- Publisher -
Can Exposure to Online Conversations About Death and Dying Influence Death Competence? An Exploratory Study Within an Australian Massive Open Online Course
(Sage Journals, 2018-03-26)A Massive Open Online Course, Dying2Learn, was designed to foster community death conversations and strengthen community awareness of palliative care and death as a normal process. This exploratory study used a pre–post ... -
A Comparison of Measures of Endothelial Function in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease and Age and Gender Matched Controls
(Hindawi, 2016-01-31)This study compared flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), peripheral artery tonometry (PAT), and serum nitric oxide (NO) measures of endothelial function in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) against age/gender matched ... -
The Australian Corneal Graft Registry 2018 Report
(South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, 2018)The Australian Corneal Graft Registry (ACGR) opened in May 1985 and has now been operating for 33 years. Over the years, we have collected information on more than 35,000 corneal grafts. At registration, we seek information ... -
Testosterone Pathway Genetic Polymorphisms in Relation to Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: An Analysis in Two Large Datasets
(Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2018-02)Purpose: Sex hormones may be associated with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), although the mechanisms are unclear. We previously observed that gene variants involved with estrogen metabolism were collectively associated ...
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