Human Health and Wellbeing Domain

Human Health and Wellbeing
Domain leader: Phone: Fax: Email:	Professor Patsy Yates (07) 3138 3835 or 3138 6116 (07) 3138 3814 p.yates@qut.edu.au
More information:	Professor Patsy Yates is jointly appointed as Professor of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology, and Director for Queensland Health’s Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, a state-wide service that was established to enhance palliative care services in Queensland through education and research. As Director for the Centre, Patsy leads a range of programs focused on developing workforce capacity in palliative care, researching priority issues in palliative care, and strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice. Professor Yates has developed a program of research aimed at improving management of symptoms associated with advanced progressive disease, having undertaken studies evaluating non-pharmacological and behavioural interventions for people with cancer experiencing cancer pain, breathlessness, fatigue and nausea. She was National Chair for the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia, and has served as member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee for Palliative Care Australia, the Board of Directors for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and the Board of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre.
Publications:	http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Yates,_Patsy.html

Human Health and Wellbeing

Domain leader:

Phone:

Fax:

Email:

Professor Patsy Yates Patsy_Yates

(07) 3138 3835 or 3138 6116

(07) 3138 3814

p.yates@qut.edu.au

More information:

Professor Patsy Yates is jointly appointed as Professor of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology, and Director for Queensland Health’s Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, a state-wide service that was established to enhance palliative care services in Queensland through education and research. As Director for the Centre, Patsy leads a range of programs focused on developing workforce capacity in palliative care, researching priority issues in palliative care, and strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice.

Professor Yates has developed a program of research aimed at improving management of symptoms associated with advanced progressive disease, having undertaken studies evaluating non-pharmacological and behavioural interventions for people with cancer experiencing cancer pain, breathlessness, fatigue and nausea. She was National Chair for the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia, and has served as member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee for Palliative Care Australia, the Board of Directors for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and the Board of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre.

Publications:

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Yates,_Patsy.html

IHBI researchers within this domain are studying the major problems relating to population ageing, health issues in childhood and adolescence, the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the need to provide efficient and effective interventions in a variety of health care settings. The researchers in the Human Health & Wellbeing Domain are focused on developing and evaluating interventions that will prevent disease, promote health and well being and improve care. The Human Health & Wellbeing Domain encompasses six main research areas including:

The burden of preventable physical and psychological illness is still unacceptably high despite the success of public health interventions over the past century. Throughout Asia and the Western Pacific an 'epidemic' of preventable chronic disease is evident. In some population sub-groups in Australia, the rates of chronic disease are among the highest anywhere in the world.

Human Health & Wellbeing at IHBI is developing products and service management tools that will be adopted as industry standards in health care for people of all ages. It provides training and support for small businesses by acting as a health service 'broker' and personal health consultant to prepare evidence based healthcare management plans and services

The Human Health & Wellbeing Domain also addresses the increasing demand for patient-centred services delivered outside of the traditional hospital environment by assisting people to better manage their own chronic health problems. Customisation of chronic disease management in this way, by collaborating with a variety of health practitioners in primary care, is the key to reducing the impact of chronic disease.

Find IHBI research project information using the IHBI Research Matrix or view the Human Health and Wellbeing domain research profile.

Human Health and Wellbeing Domain Research Profile

Research Theme	Research Programme	Research Subprogramme	Contacts
Social and Environmental Determinants of Health The AusSun Research Laboratory is focused on finding and understanding the varying effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. Professor David Kavanagh from the Human Health and Wellbeing Domain led the development of OnTrack Professor Lidia Morawska from the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health	International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH)	Air quality and its impact on human health	Lidia Morawska
	AusSun Laboratory	Ultraviolet radiation, Vitamin D	Michael Kimlin
	Ecosystem Change		Shilu Tong
	Social Inequalities	(i) The monitoring and surveillance of health inequalities in Australia (ii) Developing new methods and measurement (iii) Improving knowledge and understanding of health inequalities (iv) Investigating policies and interventions to reduce health inequalities (v) Strengthening Australia’s research capacity and infrastructure as these relate to health inequalities.	Gavin Turrell
	Social Inequalities		Katrina Giskes
	Psychological Predictors of Health / Risk Factors	Health Behaviour	Katy White
			David Kavanagh
			Karen Sullivan
			Nathan Moss
			Ross Young
			Esben Strodl
		Psychophysiological mediators	Esben Strodl
Health Services Research and Policy IHBI's Health Services Research Team: Dr Kate Halton, Dr Adrian Barnett, Associate Professor Nick Graves, Katharina Bolz, and Jingzhou Zhao.	Classification of Disease and Surveillance		Sue Walker
	Classification of Disease and Surveillance		Kirsten McKenzie
	Disease Screening		Nick Graves
	Disease Screening	Cost effectiveness & Economics	Nick Graves
	Care and Quality of Care	Nurse Practitioner Models	Glenn Gardner
		Adverse Events in Hospitals	Nick Graves
		Service delivery models	Mary Courtney
Healthy Ageing Dr Masaharu Kagawa measures a person's body mass with the Bod Pod.	Promoting and Maintaining Good Health	Nutrition in older people	Lynne Daniels
		Falls prediction and prevention	Graham Kerr
		Midlife Women's Health	Debra Anderson
		Service delivery models	Mary Courtney
	Metabolic Fitness	Body weight and appetite regulation	Neil King
		Pediatric obesity	Andrew Hills
		Energy metabolism assessment	Nuala Byrne
Chronic Disease and Palliative Care Professor Helen Edwards, Head of QUT's School of Nursing and Midwifery and a wound management researcher Professor Patsy Yates undertakes palliative care research	Chronic Disease Management and Prevention	Service delivery models	Mary Courtney
		Diabetes: Mental Health	Esben Strodl
		Wounds	Helen Edwards
		Wounds	Mary Courtney
		Cancer	Beth Newman
		Cancer	Patsy Yates
		Lymphoedema	Sandi Hayes
		Cardiovascular Disease	Anne Chang
		Cardiovascular Disease	Esben Strodl
		Foot and lower limb disorders	Lloyd Reed
		Movement disorders and Parkinson's disease.	Graham Kerr
	Palliative Care	Service delivery models	Patsy Yates
	Palliative Care	Symptom management and supportive care	Patsy Yates
	Dementia	Dementia Care	Elizabeth Beattie
	Dementia	Patient/carer education and knowledge	Karen Sullivan
Child and Youth Health Early childhood nutrition is the focus of IHBI´s ‘Nourish’ program	Child Protection	(Public Health perspective)	Michael Dunne
	Child Protection	Strengthening families	Jennifer Fraser
	Nutrition in Early Childhood	Lynne Daniels	Lynne Daniels
Mental Health and Wellbeing Dr Renata Meuter from the Human Health and Wellbeing Domain Dr Patricia Obst, from the Human Health and Wellbeing Domain's cross-cultural and community psychology research theme. Dr Karen Sullivan from the Human Health and Wellbeing Domain	Resilience and Wellbeing	Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP)	Ian Shochet
		Resilience and posttraumatic growth	Jane Shakespeare-Finch
		Workplace wellbeing	Jane Shakespeare-Finch
			Ian Shochet
			Poppy Liossis
	Cross-Cultural and Community Psychology	Indigenous Australians, Refugees and Migrants	Nigar Khawaja
			Renata Meuter
			Jane Shakespeare-Finch
			Robert Schweitzer
		Community Connectedness	Trish Obst
		Volunteering	Katy White
	Therapy Process and Outcomes	Stress, Anxiety and Depression	Nigar Khawaja
		Therapeutic Interventions	Roger Lowe
			Karen Sullivan
			Robert Schweitzer
			Esben Strodl
			Nigar Khawaja
			Ian Shochet
			Ross Young
		Supervision and Professional Practice	Karen Sullivan
		Supervision and Professional Practice	Robert Schweitzer
		Addiction	Ross Young
		Addiction	Karen Sullivan
	Cognitive Processes, Memory and Language	Bilingualism and Multilingualism across the Lifespan	Renata Meuter
		Reading Development	Julie Hansen
		Perception	Doug Mahar
		Monotony and Vigilance	Renata Meuter
		Perception and Action	Graham Kerr
	Interpersonal Communication and Relationships	Couples	Zoe Pearce
	Interpersonal Communication and Relationships	Families	Poppy Liossis
	Psychometric Assessment	Mental capacity and assessments	Karen Sullivan
	Psychometric Assessment	Mental capacity and assessments	Nigar Khawaja