News: Cheaper fruits and vegetables could save lives

Lower prices for fruits and vegetables could save more than 200,000 lives from heart disease and stroke by 2030, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention Lifestyle 2016 Scientific Sessions.

In a recent study, researchers compared hypothetical fruit and vegetable price cuts to national healthy eating campaigns to see if one approach was potentially better than the other for preventing deaths from heart disease and stroke.

American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health 2016 Scientific Sessions
Abstract P281: Comparing the Impact of Price Change and Mass Media Campaigns in Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Disparities in the US

Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard; Piotr Bnadosz; Colin D Rehm; Ashkan Afshin; Jose Penalvo; Laurie Whitsel; Goodarz Danaei; Renata Micha; Zach Conrad; Thomas Gaziano; Helen Bromley; Ffion Lloyd-Williams; Dariush Mozaffarian; Simon Capewell; Martin O’Flaherty

Circulation 1 Mar 2016;133:Suppl 1 AP281

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News: Palliative care – costs and economics searching tool

In honour of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, CareSearch has created a set of PubMed searches that reveal the cost and economics of palliative care. Understanding costs associated with providing palliative care and how they may change across time or setting of care can be useful in planning for care delivery and looking at how to achieve the best and most cost-effective outcomes.

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News: MOOC – Health Leadership

The University of NSW has developed a free 6 week online course on health leadership. To be delivered via Coursera beginning 19th October 2015, the MOOC is a world first.

Source: UNSW
By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify current healthcare challenges and discuss how effective leadership might contribute to meeting these
• Analyse approaches to leading yourself and other individuals, teams and organisations in healthcare
• Develop a systems leadership perspective on healthcare and explore how leadership contributes to quality and safety

Watch the Video Overview.
Register for the Course.

Day and week health awareness events – April 2015

News: Patient Experience and Consumer Engagement

The Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) NSW has established the Patient Experience and Consumer Engagement (PEACE) team within the Clinical Program Design and Implementation Portfolio to promote meaningful engagement and consumer-led redesign of healthcare. The purpose of the PEACE Framework is to provide a single point of coordination and access to information, resources and tools that support the ACI to engage consumers and capture patient experience in its activities. The goal is to translate project specific information into transformational change across the health system by capturing, analysing and applying patient experience and consumer engagement data to inform and drive sustainable change.

Read about the PEACE Team

Download the framework document

 

News: Evidence-Based Midwifery Practice MOOC

A free online course on evidence-based midwifery practice is being offered, aimed primarily at midwives and clinical educators. Students and consumers however, are welcome too.

Beginning on Monday 13th April 2015, the course runs for 6 weeks and includes live lectures from experienced midwifery researchers.

At the conclusion of this MOOC participants will be able:

• to search for evidence based research for midwifery practice
• to read and analyse selected results at a basic level in research articles
• to critique research and to understand the politics behind research
• to understand evidence based research results in a global context of midwifery
• to translate and implement research into clinical practice

Go to the website to find out more and register.

Health awareness day & week events – February 2015

News: Ebola Update

A selection of stories about Ebola from the journal Nature, including

• Ebola survivors fight prejudice
• Inside the cultural struggle to stamp out Ebola
• Ebola raises profile of blood-based therapy
• How do you test an Ebola vaccine?

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News: The state of Australia – Health

Independent Australian news site The Conversation is kicking off a series of online articles about the state of Australia, by focusing first on health.

Anne-marie Boxall, Director for the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, looks at how Australia’s health system fares currently, how past reforms have shaped our health system and what needs to be considered in light of the recent recommendations delivered in the recent National Commission of Audit report.

Read The State Of Australia: Health

News: The Lancet’s manifesto “From Public to Planetary Health”

Source: The Lancet

The Lancet wants to see public health transformed and is asking health professionals to commit to their manifesto.

Our vision is for a planet that nourishes and sustains the diversity of life with which we co-exist and on which we depend. Our goal is to create a movement for planetary health.

Read and register your agreement with the manifesto.