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ArticleThe International journal of health planning and management2019

"'Academic' is a dirty word": Intended impact pathways of an emerging academic health centre in tropical regional Australia.

Alexandra Edelman, Judy Taylor, Pavel V Ovseiko, Stephanie M Topp

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Article in The International journal of health planning and management, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexandra EdelmanCollege of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-5266
Judy TaylorCollege of Medicine and Dentistry, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6761-095X
Pavel V OvseikoRadcliffe Department of Medicine, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3504-2177
Stephanie M ToppCollege of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3448-7983
James Cook University · AUAustralian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine · AUJohn Radcliffe Hospital · GB

Funding

James Cook University Postgraduate ScholarshipNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC) is being established in northern Queensland across a vast rural geography. The study aim is to identify intended impact pathways and beneficiaries of TAAHC as well as experienced and anticipated challenges. METHODOLOGY: The study is an empirical case study nested within a comparative multi-case study on academic health centres (AHCs). Data were collected from documents, observation, and interviews with 24 health system and university stakeholders. Intended impact pathways were identified abductively from analysis of aspirations and challenges.

resultsAspirations of TAAHC reflect an ultimate aim to improve the health of the northern Queensland population. Challenges were trust and communication, understanding value and return on investment, health system receptiveness to building a research culture, prioritising and influencing the research agenda, and structure of the health system. DISCUSSION: The study identifies three interdependent transitions that comprise the main intended impact pathway in TAAHC. Stakeholders expected TAAHC to effect health systems change and improvement rather than drive discovery-oriented academic research associated with AHCs elsewhere.

conclusionThe findings contribute to the empirical evidence base on the role of AHCs internationally and to ongoing initiatives to establish and resource AHCs in Australia.

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Academic Medical CentersHealth PlanningRural Health ServicesEmpirical ResearchHealth Impact AssessmentHealth Services Needs and DemandInterviews as TopicObservationOrganizational CultureQualitative ResearchQueenslandTrustacademic health centreAustraliahealth systemsregionalresearch translation

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PMID30311953
PMCPMC6559162
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