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Two Research Positions and PhD scholarship(s) :

1. Epidemiologist / Senior Epidemiologist (Social Epidemiology) 
   Establishment of a national population-based survey
   
2. Research Fellow 
   The Australian WorkHealth Program (Health Education)
   
3. PhD Scholar(s)
   Quantitative and qualitative

Applications are invited for the above positions with the AFV Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne. Read more...

Work Place Health Initiatives – a major theme at International Congress on Chronic Disease Self-management: Abstracts close 28th July 2008
The 2008 International Congress on Chronic Disease Self-Management will be held in Melbourne on 26-29 November.. Details of 10 exciting half day workshops are now posted and online registration is up and running. Read more...

 
Call for abstracts now open.

heiQ to be implemented as part of a statewide chronic disease self-management evaluation in Western Australia.
The WA Health Department has contracted CurtinUniversity to set up a systematic evaluation system for state-based CDSM courses. The evaluation includes the heiQ and other evaluation tools. The heiQ is already used widely across Australia and is also being used in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany and has been adapted for workplace health programs in Japan.

Recent publications

• Phillips K-A, Osborne RH, Giles GG, Dite GS, Apicella C, Hopper JL and Milne RL (2008). "Psychosocial Factors and Survival of Young Women with Breast Cancer: a Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study." Journal of Clinical Oncology.
• Brand C, Osborne RH, Wicks I and de Steiger R (2008). "Experienced physiotherapists as gatekeepers to hospital orthopaedic outpatient care." Medical Journal of Australia 188: 318-9.
• Busija L, Osborne RH, Nilsdotter AK, Buchbinder R and Roos E (2008). "Magnitude and meaningfulness of change in SF-36 scores in four types of orthopedic surgery." BMC Health and Quality of Life Research: (in press).
• Haines T, Hill K, Walsh W and Osborne R (2008). "Authors' response to letter from webster and courtney." J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63(5): 543.
• Osborne RH, Jordan JE and Rogers A (2008). "A critical look at the role of self-management for people with arthritis and other chronic diseases." Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology (in press) 4(5): 224-5.
• Schwarze M, Kirchhof R, Schuler M, Musekamp G, Nolte S, Jordan JE, Osborne RH, Ehlebracht-Konig I, Faller H and Gutenbrunner C (2008). "[A view Down Under : Self-management initiatives and patient education in Australia.]." Z Rheumatol 67(3): 189-198.
• Witt J, Scott A and Osborne RH (2008). "Designing Choice Experiments with Many Attributes. An Application to Setting Priorities for Orthopaedic Waiting Lists." Health Economics (in press).

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