Chronic Conditions Research Program
Program goal
The goal is to improve chronic conditions prevention, early detection and management services and strategies to reduce the impact of chronic conditions in Indigenous communities.
Program overview
The Chronic Conditions program will focus on diabetes and cardiovascular and renal disease but takes a holistic approach to health and is closely linked to other CRC for Aboriginal Health research programs. The program will use an integrated approach to bring together community, industry and research stakeholders to share ideas, questions, skills and resources; to incorporate research-transfer activities; and to support capacity development at the community level, as well as among the workforce and in the research world.
For more details on the framework of the program background, outcomes and operation, go to the Chronic Conditions Program Statement [pdf] or the Chronic Conditions Program Summary [pdf].
View list of Chronic Conditions projects
Diagram 1: The range of components that make up the Chronic Conditions program
Program Team
Program Manager: Arwen Nikolof
Program Leaders: Leisa McCarthy, Kevin Rowley, Brian Marshall, Rosemary Knight
Research priorities
These research priorities were identified by an industry roundtable in February 2006. It involved people from academic, community organisation and government backgrounds who met to discuss which areas of research were most likely to produce significant changes to the impact of chronic conditions on Aboriginal communities. These priorities have lead to the development of four CRCAH-funded projects.
These four projects are listed here with the priorities they address below each project:
A structured systems approach to improving health promotion practice for chronic disease in Indigenous communities, Ross Bailie, Menzies School of Health Research
- Chronic Disease self-management: Understanding the barriers and facilitators to effective uptake of health promotion and self-management messages
- Research transfer into policy and practice
Monitoring and evaluating Aboriginal tobacco control, David Thomas, Menzies School of Health Research
- Aboriginal constructions of health: Implications for service provision, resourcing and health indicators
- Smoking
- Chronic Disease self-management: Understanding the barriers and facilitators to effective uptake of health promotion and self-management messages
The Mibbinbah men’s place, Jack Bulman and Rick Hayes, La Trobe University
- Aboriginal constructions of health: implications for service provision, resourcing and health indicators
- A cross-program project on research transfer into policy and practice
- Men’s Health
- Chronic Disease self-management: Understanding the barriers and facilitators to effective uptake of health promotion and self-management messages
Chronic conditions management strategies in Aboriginal communities, Inge Kowanko, Peter Harvey and Malcolm Battersby, Flinders University
- Chronic Disease self-management: Understanding the barriers and facilitators to effective uptake of health promotion and self-management messages
- Improved access to cardiovascular disease services
All projects
In addition to the above, a range of other program activity is occurring in the Chronic Conditions program. Information about some of these other projects can be found on this page. For a full list of current Chronic Conditions projects go to Research projects.