Current Projects

Social Objectives and Utility Measurement

1. Quality of Life Questionnaires
2. AQoL project: construction and validation of the AQoL II instrument
3. VisQol project: construction and validation of the VisQol instrument
4. PsyQoL project: the construction and validation of the assessment of mental health related quality of life (PsyQoL) instrument
5. Validation of the 'Transfer to Utility' technique for mapping health status onto a utility score
6. The effect of global movements upon health and well being
7. Development of a 'Value of Life' framework to assist priority setting making across sectors
8. Empirical ethics: quantification of social preferences for economic evaluation in the health sector

Improving and Informing Decision Making

1. Efficacy of physiotherapy after hydrolitation for the stiff painful shoulder: a randomised placebo-controlled trial
2. The IDEAL Trial - Initiating Dialysis Early And Late - an economic and quality of life analysis
3. Efficacy and cost effectiveness of physiotherapy for chronic rotator cuff pathology: a randomised control trial
4. Assessment and evaluation services on medical technologies and procedures for the Medicare Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) (with Centre for Clinical Effectiveness)
5. Evidence to recommendation to implementation and monitoring (MERIM)
6. External evaluation of PBAC submissions (with Monash Institute of Health Services Research)
7. Using evidence to set priorities in health: an analysis of decisions of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
8. Economic analysis of an evaluation based clinical assessment & investigation of emergency department patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

Health Systems

1. Supply, demand and distribution Project
2. The identification and measurement of equity and other health sector objectives
3. Developing a comprehensive population-based primary care funding and delivery model
4. Modelling the economics of the Australian health care system for policy analysis
5. Access to and funding for community based allied health services for chronic disease management
6. Provision of expert advice to the Tasmanian Minister of Health and Human Services regarding the State Health system

Population Health

1. Modelling Inequalities in Health in the Area of Obesity (ARC Discovery looking at the economics of obesity)
2. The Obesity Prevention in Pacific Communities (OPIC) Study
3. The determinants of health in Australia: an economic framework with public health implications
4. How best to reduce burden of harm from physical inactivity, poor nutrition, alcohol misuse and tobacco smoking
5. Evaluation of Tai Chi in at-risk elderly persons
6. PEACH study - Patient engagement and coaching for health: an intensive intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes in disadvantaged communities

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