Jessica Hardt1, Mr Brent Matautia1 1Good Start Program | Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service, South Brisbane, Australia Background: The Māori & Pacific Islander population continues to suffer the poorest health of the nation, attributable to socioeconomic disadvantage and a...
- May 14, 2021
Ms Kristy Perkins1, Mr Callum Trevorrow1, Mr Philip Juffs1 1West Moreton Health, Queensland Health, Ipswich, Australia Background: The implementation of an ieMR and associated workflow changes coupled with multiple system utilisation highlighted discrepancies in articulating the cost and efficiency of some...
- May 14, 2021
Ms Stephanie Notaras1,2, Dr Martin Howell3, Professor Kirsten Howard3, Professor Angela Makris1,2 1Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Australia, 2Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, Australia, 3Sydney University School of Public Health, Camperdown, Australia Aim: To compare health service costs in a cohort of patients...
- May 14, 2021
Miss Elise Jenkins1 1Port Macquarie Base Hospital, Port Macquarie, Australia Background: Hospital-acquired deconditioning (HAD) has a devastating impact on patients, hospitals and societies. HAD may be prevented by increasing patient mobility levels, however, there is limited evidence of the effectiveness...
- May 14, 2021
Paul Gibson1 1Indigenous Allied Health Australia, Deakin, Australia Lead presenter, Kylie Stothers, is a Jawoyn woman from Katherine, Northern Territory As the peak national membership for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health workforce, Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA)...
- May 14, 2021
Dr Molly Kallesen1 1Capital & Coast District Health Board, Wellington, New Zealand Health outcomes for Māori and Pasifika in Aotearoa New Zealand are markedly worse than for Pākehā (non Māori /Pacific). The New Zealand Health and Disability System is committing...
- May 14, 2021
Establishing Interprofessional Indigenous Cadetship Programs across two hospital and health services
Ms Emma Driver1, Ms Claire Costello2, Ms Michelle Stute1, Ms Tania Hobson2, Ms Kristine Kelly2, Mr Jason Warnock1 1Metro North Health, Brisbane, Australia, 2Children’s Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Background: Metro North Health (MNH) and Children’s Health Queensland (CHQ) are dedicated...
- May 14, 2021
Mrs Michelle Elwell1, Mr Darren Deves1 1Australian Indigenous Healthinfonet, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, Australia The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (HealthInfoNet) aims to contribute to ‘closing the gap’ in health between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians by...
- May 14, 2021
Ms Deepa Ramakrishnan1 1Forensic Hospital, Malabar, Australia People living with psychotic illnesses often experience distortions in their perceptions of sensory information and also experience hyper or hypo sensitivity to particular sensations. Sensory modulation exploration targeting the vestibular, proprioception, tactile, auditory...
- May 14, 2021
Mr Chi Cheng1 1Queensland Health, Ipswich, Australia Navigating Happiness is a 4-week practical skill group designed to help mental health service consumers, or almost anyone for that matter, as in introduction to how to live a more rich, full, and...
- May 14, 2021