Primary Health Provider Forum, Chronic disease management – everybody's business

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Overview

Over 140 attended the third 2006 Primary Health Provider Forum – Chronic disease management – everybody's business on 14 December 2006.

Associate Professor Malcolm Battersby, Director, Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit and Senior Lecturer, Psychiatry, Flinders University, was the keynote speaker at the forum. He spoke on the Wagner Chronic Care Model, a model that helps provide a comprehensive approach to the management of chronic disease.

The day included presentations by:

• Primary Health Integration (Sylvia Barry, Manager, Primary Health Integration)
  Chronic disease management - everybody's business (1,864kb, MS Powerpoint)

• Flinders University (Malcolm Battersby, Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit)
  Chronic Illness Care - framework for change (4,906kb, MS Powerpoint)

• HealthWest
  The system redesing story in the West (493kb, MS Powerpoint)

Photographs of workshop participants:

Further information

For more information contact:

Adele Hamlyn (adele.hamlyn@dhs.vic.gov.au)
A/Manager Chronic Disease Management
Primary Health Branch
Department of Human Services
Enquiries: Tel (61 3) 9096 6150

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