Knowledge brokers to get evidence into policy and practice: Escaping the ‘dark side’

Tuesday 5 November 2019

This talk will reflect on the rise of knowledge brokering as a strategy for translating scientific research into healthcare policy and practice. Drawing on a 10-year programme of research conducted in a large-scale collaborative research partnership, it will explore different dimensions and types of knowledge brokering, discussing implications for evaluating its effectiveness. Particular attention will be paid to the ‘dark side’ of knowledge brokering and strategies that could be used to address it.

Allied Health – Translating Research into Practice (AH-TRIP)

This fun, friendly state-wide competition champions research translation excellence across allied health. It is a fantastic event with lots of opportunity for learning and networking within and between allied health disciplines.

Save the date! This free half-day professional development activity will be held at the Translational Research Institute at the Princess Alexandra Hospital on Tuesday 12th November from 12:30 – 4:30 pm.
Videoconferencing will be available however we would highly recommend attending face to face.

For more information about AH-TRIP or to find out how you can support TRIP in your department, please contact ahtrip@health.qld.gov.au.

Minke Remmerswaal is a PhD candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She works financing of mental health care and cost-sharing in health care. She is also employed as a researcher at the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) in The Hague.

Do altruistic providers have better treatment outcomes? 

We study heterogeneity in provider altruism among self-employed mental health care providers in the Netherlands. Using a large administrative data set, we exploit the discontinuities in the compensation scheme to separate altruistically motivated providers from financially motivated providers. We find strong heterogeneity in provider altruism. Moreover, we find that more altruistically motivated providers treat mental health patients for shorter duration and report better treatment outcomes, as measured by the improvement in Global Assessment of Functioning. These results suggest that provider altruism is positively related to treatment outcomes.

The HSRAANZ Conference runs every two years to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate research findings and methods in health services research nationally and internationally.

Through this Conference and its other activities, the Association is working to increase recognition of the importance of health services research to improving the performance of health systems in both countries, and to support researchers in their health services careers.   With changes in health structures being debated in Australia, New Zealand and Internationally, shared challenges ahead in order to improve performance, and health research funders on both sides of the Tasman increasing their focus on health services research in recent years, the Association and the Conference play an important role in promoting and sharing high quality research.

Title: Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis – an overview

This presentation will provide an overview of “distributional” or “equity-informative” cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA) in health care and public health, with illustrative examples and careful attention to the controversial value judgements needed at each stage of the analysis.  The presentation will draw on material being prepared for the forthcoming Oxford University Press book: “Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Handbook of Equity-Informative Health Economic Evaluation”, edited by Richard Cookson, Susan Griffin, Ole Norheim and Anthony Culyer, which is due for publication in late 2020.  The phrase “distributional” emphasises that the focus is on distributions of costs and effects, not just aggregate costs and effects.  The phrase “equity-informative” emphasises that the focus is on generating new information about equity, not just incorporating pre-existing value judgements about equity into the analysis.