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January 2024
Crosland, P., Ho, N., Hosseini, S. H., Vacher, C., Skinner, A., Natsky, A. N., Rosenberg, S., Hasudungan, R., Huntley, S., Song, Y. J. C., Lee, G. Y., Marshall, D. A., Occhipinti, J. A., & Hickie, I. B. (2024). Cost-effectiveness of system-level mental health strategies for young people in the Australian Capital Territory: a dynamic simulation modelling study. The Lancet. Psychiatry, 11(2), 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00396-6
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June 2023
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May 2023
April 2023
A system dynamics model was used to simulate the impact on population mental health indicators of allowing people to book some Medicare-subsidised sessions with psychologists and other mental health care professionals without a referral (direct access), and of increasing the annual growth rate in specialist mental health care capacity (consultations).
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December 2022
The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research paradigms and can be an effective method to deliver a decision support tool for mental health systems planning for Indigenous communities. Evaluations are necessary to understand the effectiveness and value of such methods, uncover protective and healing factors of social and emotional wellbeing, as well as to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination over allocation of funding and resources.
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April 2022
Our youth are Australia's greatest asset. The economics stream for this program will develop an investment approach that values the full impacts of smarter policies to improve health, social and economic outcomes. The social return on investment can be enormous.
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February 2022
People are at the centre of our approach. We combine the expertise of local people with cutting edge science and technologies to develop decision support tools that can inform planning for youth mental health services in their community
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February 2022
Just as everyone is entitled to access best mental health care, everyone deserves to have their voices heard. We want to listen, and empower everyone community.
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April 2022
There is a need to improve evaluation efforts in participatory modelling. Our program evaluation is underpinned by all the latest evidence to ensure every element of our research is transparent.
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December 2021
Research should be accessible at every stage, such as data collection. We have extensively designed interactive and engaging game-like surveys to promote accessible participation in our program evaluation.
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September 2021
Knowing what will and won't work to improve youth mental health requires more than just good evidence; it requires decision support tools that can help us understand how programs and initiatives will perform when introduced into complex, changing real world systems.
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October 2021
Scaling up the systems modelling approach to improve youth mental health nationally and internationally requires a blueprint for diverse contexts. This protocol paper for the ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ Program provides a first exemplar.