Health Systems Implementation and Economics
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.
The Health Systems Implementation and Economics Enabling Platform incorporates implementation research and health economics evaluation.
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.
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Providing Enhanced Access to Child Health Services Evaluation (PEACH-E)
PEACH-E is an exemplar project for this platform.
The project focuses on reducing health disparities in children and young people at every stage of the patient’s journey and incorporates five priority populations:
- patients who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- culturally and linguistically diverse
- refugee/asylum seeker
- living with a disability
- out-of-home care patients.
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- evaluate the impact of PEACH on reducing inequity in child health access and outcomes for children from 5 priority populations.
- evaluate the implementation by exploring barriers and facilitators in the delivery of PEACH at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (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-design a PEACH sustainability framework for the rollout of this intervention across NSW, and to other major children’s hospitals nationally.
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Lead Investigators
- Professor Raghu Lingam, Lead Investigator HSIE Platform, Professor in Paediatric Population Health at the University of New South Wales, Consultant, Community Paediatrician in the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network.
- Professor Karen Zwi, Lead Investigator PEACH-E, Consultant Community Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. Hospital, Clinical Program Director of Priority Populations and Head of the Department of Community Child Health, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Randwick)
Research Team
- Seaneen Wallace Priority Populations Care Navigator, PEACH-E Project Co-ordinator, Diversity Health, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Randwick
- Associate Professor Peter Hibbert, Macquarie University
- Professor Gavin Schwarz, UNSW Sydney
- Professor Henry Cutler, Macquarie University
- Dr Nan Hu, UNSW Sydney
- Dr Michael Hodgins, UNSW Sydney
- Dr Rezwanul Rana, Macquarie University
- Dr Melodie Cartel, UNSW Sydney
- Dr Karen Hutchinson, Macquarie University
- Prof Faye McMillan, UNSW Sydney
- Dr Smithers-Sheedy, UNSW Sydney
- Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University
- Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden, University of Sydney
- Professor Claire Wakefield, UNSW Sydney
- Professor Natasha Nassar, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, University of Sydney
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- UNSW Sydney
- University of Sydney
- Macquarie University
- Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN)
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Luminesce Alliance Impact Report pages 33-35
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- LA 2024 Conference Session 6.1 HSIE and Precision Therapy – Delivering outcomes focused sustainability for children
- ZERO seminar ‘Implementation Evaluation -understanding why interventions succeed or fail‘