Program goal
The goal is to improve chronic conditions prevention, early
detection and management services and strategies to reduce the
impact of chronic conditions in Indigenous communities.
Program overview
The Chronic Conditions program will focus on diabetes
and cardiovascular and renal disease but takes a holistic
approach to health and is closely linked to other CRC for
Aboriginal Health research programs. The program will use an
integrated approach to bring together community, industry and
research stakeholders to share ideas, questions, skills and
resources; to incorporate research-transfer activities; and
to support capacity development at the community level, as
well as among the workforce and in the research world.
For more details on the framework of the program background,
outcomes and operation, go to the Chronic Conditions Program Statement [pdf] or the
Chronic Conditions Program Summary [pdf].
Diagram 1: The range of components that make up the
Chronic Conditions program
Research priorities
These research priorities were identified by an industry roundtable in
February 2006. It involved people from academic, community
organisation and government backgrounds who met to discuss which
areas of research were most likely to produce significant changes
to the impact of chronic conditions on Aboriginal communities.
These priorities have lead to the development of four CRCAH-funded
projects.
These four projects are listed here with the priorities they
address below each project:
A
structured systems approach to improving health promotion practice
for chronic disease in Indigenous communities, Ross Bailie,
Menzies School of Health Research
Monitoring and
evaluating Aboriginal tobacco control, David Thomas, Menzies
School of Health Research
-
Aboriginal constructions of health:
Implications for service provision, resourcing and health
indicators
-
Smoking
-
Chronic Disease self-management:
Understanding the barriers and facilitators to effective uptake of
health promotion and self-management messages
The
Mibbinbah men’s place, Jack Bulman and Rick Hayes, La
Trobe University
-
Aboriginal constructions of health:
implications for service provision, resourcing and health
indicators
-
A cross-program project on research
transfer into policy and practice
-
Men’s Health
-
Chronic Disease self-management:
Understanding the barriers and facilitators to effective uptake of
health promotion and self-management messages
Chronic conditions
management strategies in Aboriginal communities, Inge Kowanko,
Peter Harvey and Malcolm Battersby, Flinders University
All projects
In addition to the above, a range of other program activity is
occurring in the Chronic Conditions program. Information about some
of these other projects can be found on this page. For a full list
of current Chronic Conditions projects go to Research projects.
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