Evaluating the Effectiveness of Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Local Communities - Research Symposium, October 2010
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On October 20th and 21st, 2010, we held a research symposium for the Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Local Communities project at the Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA. Attendees included the chief and associate investigators on the project, members of the critical reference group, managers and staff from the primary health care services, SA Health and regional health service executives, and other academic, policy, and practice stakeholders.
The program for the first day, and the breakfast meeting on the second day are listed below, along with links to copies of the presentations for each speaker.
Some key themes to emerge from the discussions at the symposium were:
- The need for emphasis and attention on the context, in particular integration with the rest of the health system and the current rapid rate of health reform.
- The tension globally between Comprehensive Primary Health Care and conservative health reforms and restructures.
- Whether Primary Health Care services have a role in addressing the social determinants of health in their local communities, and if so, how to overcome the current barriers to services acting in this role.
- The need for activities that encompass the spectrum of rehabilitative, curative, preventive, and promotive interventions.
| Day 1 - Program | ||
| Time | Activity | Who |
| 9.15 | Open and welcome, Housekeeping Indigenous welcome to country | Jack Buckskin |
| 9.30 | Overview of research Description & summary of project and GP study, progress to date | Fran Baum |
| 10.00 | Philosophy, history, current trends in global CPHC and comparison with Australia/SA/NT | David Sanders |
| 11.05 | Findings from Teasdale Corti CPHC project and implications/links to our project | Ron Labonte |
| 11.45 | Early findings from stage 1 interviews | Toby Freeman |
| 12.15 | Issues arising from interviews and implications for policy and practice | Small groups |
| 2.00 | Program logic models: process of development and how they will be used, present generic model. Experience of logic models from sites | Michael Bentley/Angela Lawless Interview panel of sites |
| 3.15 | Reflections on best practice in PHC and links to this research | David Legge |
| 3.30 | How can this research be most useful for policy and practice? | Group discussion |
| 4.00 | Close and summary of day | Fran Baum |
| 4.15 | Finish | |
| Day 2 - Breakfast Meeting | ||
| Time | Activity | Who |
| 8.00 | Open and Chair | David Day |
| 8.10 | Overview of research | Fran Baum |
| 8.15 | Summary of progress and early findings | Toby Freeman/Gwyn Jolley |
| 8.25 | Current trends in global CPHC and comparison with Australia/SA/NT | David Sanders |
| 8.35 | Links to global research | Ron Labonte |
| 8.45 | Central Australian Aboriginal Congress perspective | Donna Ah Chee |
| 8.55 | Discussion and questions | |
The remainder of the second day was used as a planning workshop with investigators and service managers to map out the evaluation methods to be used over the next three years of the project.