Body of Knowledge
Division of Health Sciences
Each year we continue to make our recent discoveries about the causes, treatments, development and delivery of health care accessible to all. We strive for collaborative research which has practical application and significance for the health of the population. No matter whether you are a health professional or a consumer of health care, this is your opportunity to learn about our latest research being undertaken by our health science experts.
Professor Robyn McDermott, Pro Vice Chancellor
Health reform: a healthy community and a healthy economy, do we have to choose? |
Available online |
Tuesday 15 July
6.30 - 7.30pm
Basil Hetzel building
Mutual Community Lecture
Theatre, City East campus
Prepare for an alternative view as Leonie Segal tackles some of the biggest and most controversial health reform issues of the day. Such as: How do we achieve a better balance of health care services? How does private health insurance fit in with our commitment to universal cover through Medicare? How can we promote high quality health care for all, especially in general practice? Can prevention really reduce costs? It may be surprise you to discover exactly how an economist thinks we can achieve an efficient and equitable health system.
Professor Leonie Segal
Leonie joined UniSA in 2007 as
SA Research Chair in Health Economics after
eight years as Deputy Director at Monash University’s equivalent. She has a
Masters in Economics and a Ph.D. in Health Economics. Leonie is currently
creating an evidence based model to determine the optimal health-care
workforce, plus a cost-effective strategy to prevent child abuse. In the
last decade, she has conducted over 100 economic evaluations of health care
interventions and published over 50 journal articles. Leonie has four
current ARC/NHMRC grants, contracts with State and Federal agencies and is
on policy committees including the Health Minister's Prevention Task Force
and the Australian Medical Council Policy Subcommittee.
Professor Leonie Segal's
homepage
Does where you live affect your risk of chronic disease?
Wednesday 22 October
6.30 - 7.30 pm
Basil Hetzel building
Mutual Community Lecture
Theatre, City East campus
Policy makers, health professionals and researchers are keen to get to the bottom of reports that neighbourhoods have been linked to the risk of cardiometabolic diseases such as diabetes type 2 and cardiovascular disease. But less evidence actually exists than is widely thought. In this presentation, Mark Daniel reviews the literature on the subject and puts forward three ways to unpack the 'black box' that links neighbourhoods to cardiometabolic diseases. Understanding these mechanisms is necessary to provide a scientific basis for public health and urban planning interventions to reduce risk factors among susceptible residents, while improving neighbourhood conditions causally related to cardiometabolic diseases.
Professor Mark Daniel
Mark is Professor and
SA Research Chair for Social
Epidemiology at UniSA's School of Health Sciences, and Professorial Fellow,
Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne. He studies how human
environments affect health. He earned a doctorate in epidemiology at the
University of British Columbia. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Assistant Professor
of Health Behaviour and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and Associate Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de
Montréal. In 2002, he was awarded a Canada Research Chair. At UniSA, Mark is
expanding his research into how neighbourhoods influence metabolic syndrome
in 4,000 people tracked over time.
Professor
Mark Daniel 's homepage