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Enabling Platform – Health Systems Implementation and Economics

Project Overview

 What it is 

Implementation research helps evidence to be translated into practice. It makes sure treatments are accessible to everyone, informed by evidence and suitable for different patients and in different contexts. 

Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues of healthcare efficiency, effectiveness, value, and behaviour. Health economics is important to make the case for new treatments and to support funding and regulation. 

The Health Systems Implementation and Economics Enabling Platform incorporates implementation research and health economics evaluation 

What we do 

The Providing Enhanced Access to Child Health Services Evaluation, PEACH-E, is an exemplar project for this platform.  The aim of the PEACH initiative is to reduce health inequities experienced by children and young people from priority populations at every stage of the patient’s journey. This includes patients who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, refugee/asylum seeker, living with a disability, or living in out of home care. 

The platform will be: 

  • evaluating the impact of PEACH on reducing inequity in child health access and outcomes for children from 5 priority populations. 
  • evaluating implementation by exploring barriers and facilitators in delivery of PEACH at SCHN. 
  • evaluating the costs of PEACH by modelling the costs incurred at SCHN, evaluating government budget impacts, and extrapolating to NSW and national children’s hospitals. 
  • co-designing a PEACH sustainability framework for rollout of this intervention across NSW, and to other major children’s hospitals nationally. 

Collaborations

  • University of NSW
  • University of Sydney
  • Macquarie University
  • Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN)
Summary

The Providing Enhanced Access to Child Health Services Evaluation initiative focuses on reducing health disparities in children and young people from priority populations, including Indigenous, culturally diverse, refugee/asylum seeker, disabled, or out-of-home care patients.

Lead Investigators

  • Raghu-Lingam

    Professor Raghu Lingam

    Professor in Paediatric Population Health at the University of New South Wales, Consultant, Community Paediatrician in the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network.
  • Karen-Zwi

    Professor Karen Zwi

    Consultant Community Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. Hospital, Clinical Program Director of Priority Populations and Head of the Department of Community Child Health, Sydney Children's Hospital

Project Research Team

Associate Professor Peter Hibbert, Macquarie University

Professor Gavin Schwarz, University of New South Wales

Professor Henry Cutler, Macquarie University

Dr Nan Hu, University of New South Wales

Dr Michael Hodgins, University of New South Wales

Dr Rezwanul Rana, Macquarie University

Dr Melodie Cartel, University of New South Wales

Dr Karen Hutchinson, Macquarie University

Prof Faye McMillan, University of New South Wales

Dr Smithers-Sheedy, University of New South Wales

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University

Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden, University of Sydney

Professor Claire Wakefield, University of New South Wales

Professor Natasha Nassar, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, University of Sydney

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