Nick Scott
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2954973 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nick Scott |
| PRENOMES | Nick |
| SOBRENOME | Scott |
| ASSINATURA | SCOTT N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Burnet Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9667-2084 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Scaling up evidence-based interventions to reduce maternal and child undernutrition in 125 countries
BACKGROUND: The world is not on track to reach the Sustainable Development Goal nutrition targets. We aimed to estimate the cost, impact and benefit-cost ratio from scaling up 15 evidence-based nutrition interventions among 125 countries and seven world regions. METHODS: For each country, the Optima Nutrition model was used to project health outcomes over 2025-2034 for pregnant women (anemia, mortality) and children under five (stunting, wasting,…
Dynamic shifts in crystal methamphetamine and heroin price and purity in metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria, Australia, 2009-2020
Overall declines in both crystal methamphetamine and heroin purity-adjusted prices in Victoria suggests that, by 2019, people who purchased these drugs received more drug for a given purchase than in previous years. These changes closely match trends seen in some key harms such as opioid overdose
Estimating the historical impact of outbreak response immunisation programmes across 210 outbreaks in low and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases frequently occur in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), requiring outbreak response immunisation (ORI) programmes for containment. To inform future investment decisions, this study aimed to estimate the cases, deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and societal economic costs averted by past ORI programmes. Outbreaks of measles, Ebola, yellow fever, cholera and meningococcal menin…
The cost-effectiveness of interventions used for the screening, diagnosis and management of anaemia in pregnancy
An estimated 40% of pregnant women worldwide are anaemic, of which 80% live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The reality of finite health budgets, particularly in low-resource settings, means that interventions used for screening, diagnosing, and treating anaemia in pregnancy need to be informed by cost-effectiveness evidence. We conducted a systematic review to identify all studies evaluating the cost-effectiveness of managing anaemi…
Optimising TB investments in Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
High rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are a barrier to achieving End TB-strategy targets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This analysis collates results from five country-level modelling studies to identify priorities to reduce TB burden. Allocative efficiency studies were conducted in 2023 in Belarus, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan using the Optima TB model to determine the optimised distribution of funds to maxi…
Covid-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities
Introduction: A disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths occur in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), where better evidence is needed to target COVID-19 interventions to prevent mortality. This study used an agent-based model to assess the role of community prevalence, vaccination strategies, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on COVID-19 outcomes in RACFs in Victoria, Australia. Methods: The model simulated outbreaks in RACFs ov…
Evaluation of the use of modelling in resource allocation decisions for HIV and TB
INTRODUCTION: Globally, resources for health spending, including HIV and tuberculosis (TB), are constrained, and a substantial gap exists between spending and estimated needs. Optima is an allocative efficiency modelling tool that has been used since 2010 in over 50 settings to generate evidence for country-level HIV and TB resource allocation decisions. This evaluation assessed the utilisation of modelling to inform financing priorities from the…
Keeping kids in school
Background: In 2021, the Australian Government Department of Health commissioned a consortium of modelling groups to generate evidence assisting the transition from a goal of no community COVID-19 transmission to 'living with COVID-19', with adverse health and social consequences limited by vaccination and other measures. Due to the extended school closures over 2020-21, maximizing face-to-face teaching was a major objective during this transitio…
Health and economic benefits of achieving contraceptive and maternal health targets in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and Caribbean
INTRODUCTION: Reducing unmet need for modern contraception and expanding access to quality maternal health (MH) services are priorities for improving women's health and economic empowerment. To support investment decisions, we estimated the additional cost and expected health and economic benefits of achieving the United Nations targets of zero unmet need for modern contraceptive choices and 95% coverage of MH services by 2030 in select Small Isl…
Covid-19 epidemic modelling for policy decision support in Victoria, Australia 2020–2021
Model evidence offered the greatest value when decisions needed to be made pre-emptively, or for questions that could not be answered with empiric data and data analysis alone. Co-designing scenarios with policy-makers ensured relevance and increased policy translation
Evaluation of a person-centred, nurse-led model of care delivering hepatitis C testing and treatment in priority settings
Providing outreach hepatitis C services in community-based services was effective in engaging people living with and at-risk of hepatitis C, in education, testing, and care. Nurse-led, person-centred care was critical to the success of the project. Our evaluation underscores the importance of employing a partnership approach when delivering hepatitis C models of care in community settings, and incorporating workforce education and capacity-buildi…
Connecting patients notified with hepatitis C to treatment (Connect Study)
This was the first prospective randomised study of the utility of immediate HCV notification follow-up of primary care practitioners to enhance treatment uptake using disease notification surveillance data. We demonstrated improvement in HCV RNA testing and trend toward better engagement in care, but no significant increase in treatment uptake
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation
INTRODUCTION: With limited resources, attaining maximal average health service coverage can be at odds with maximising equity which attempts to promote greater reach among underserved populations. In this study, we examined the trade-offs in immunisation coverage levels and equity for children under 5 years of age in Pakistan across various subpopulations who can be targeted with different combinations of immunisation service modalities. METHODS:…
Evaluating the potential cost-effectiveness of microarray patches to expand access to hepatitis B birth dose vaccination in low-and middle-income countries
Timely birth dose vaccination is key for achieving elimination of hepatitis B, however, programmatic requirements for delivering current vaccine presentations to births outside of health facilities inhibits coverage within many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Vaccine technologies in development such as microarray patches (MAPs) could assist in overcoming these barriers, but procurement could incur higher per-dose commodity costs than cur…
Cost effectiveness of simplified HCV screening-and-treatment interventions for people who inject drugs in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Hepatitis C incidence among patients attending primary care health services that specialise in the care of people who inject drugs, Victoria, Australia, 2009 to 2020
Upscaling prevention, testing and treatment to control hepatitis C as a public health threat in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
A costing analysis of a state-wide, nurse-led hepatitis C treatment model in prison
Impacts of Covid-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality
Treading lightly
A cost-effectiveness analysis of primary versus hospital-based specialist care for direct acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment
The pitfalls of prevalence estimation
Objectives: The prevalence of regular and dependent methamphetamine use in Australia in 2013/14 was recently estimated indirectly using multipliers at 268,000 regular (defined as >monthly use in the past 6 months) and 160,000 dependent (defined as >3 on the Severity of Dependence Scale) methamphetamine consumers, respectively. We replicated this approach using more contemporary multipliers and alternate data sources to explore identified limitati…
Optima Nutrition
A resource optimization tool can provide important guidance for targeting nutrition investments to achieve greater impact
Reaching hepatitis C virus elimination targets requires health system interventions to enhance the care cascade
How is methamphetamine typically purchased and used in Melbourne, Australia? Reports from a cohort of people who inject drugs
Background: Methamphetamine-related harms have been increasing in Melbourne, Australia, yet little is known of how users interact with the drug market. We describe methamphetamine purchases and use as reported by a Melbourne-based cohort of people who inject drugs (PWID).Methods: A total of 2862 interviews from 757 participants of the Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study between April 2008 and February 2015 were used to generate descriptive…
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At the Intersection of Religious Ritual and Automobility
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Patterns of drug preference and use among people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia
Background: Understanding of substitution patterns in drug using careers is limited. Between 2009 and mid-2013, the purity-adjusted price of methamphetamine declined sharply in Melbourne in absolute terms and relative to the purity-adjusted price of heroin. We determine whether there were associated increases among people who inject drugs (PWID) in (1) use of methamphetamine and (2) citing methamphetamine as the drug of choice. Method: Responses …
Black-Bans and Black Eyes
The 1971 Springbok rugby tour has become infamous for disruptive anti-apartheid protests, which culminated in the declaration of a State of Emergency in Queensland. Opposed to the racist selection policies of the South African national team, the trade union movement and the New Left attempted to directly stop the tour. Conservative governments took extreme measures to undermine a union black-ban, while rugby games were marred by clashes between p…
How is methamphetamine typically purchased and used in Melbourne, Australia? Reports from a cohort of people who inject drugs
Background: Methamphetamine-related harms have been increasing in Melbourne, Australia, yet little is known of how users interact with the drug market. We describe methamphetamine purchases and use as reported by a Melbourne-based cohort of people who inject drugs (PWID).Methods: A total of 2862 interviews from 757 participants of the Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study between April 2008 and February 2015 were used to generate descriptive…
SimDrink
Aggression and other acute harms experienced in the night-time economy are topics of significant public health concern. Although policies to minimise these harms are frequently proposed, there is often little evidence available to support their effectiveness. In particular, indirect and displacement effects are rarely measured. This paper describes a proof-of-concept agent-based model ‘SimDrink’, built in NetLogo, which simulates a population of …
The effects of extended public transport operating hours and venue lockout policies on drinking-related harms in Melbourne, Australia
Reaching hepatitis C virus elimination targets requires health system interventions to enhance the care cascade
The pitfalls of prevalence estimation
Objectives: The prevalence of regular and dependent methamphetamine use in Australia in 2013/14 was recently estimated indirectly using multipliers at 268,000 regular (defined as >monthly use in the past 6 months) and 160,000 dependent (defined as >3 on the Severity of Dependence Scale) methamphetamine consumers, respectively. We replicated this approach using more contemporary multipliers and alternate data sources to explore identified limitati…
Optima Nutrition
A resource optimization tool can provide important guidance for targeting nutrition investments to achieve greater impact
Impacts of Covid-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality
Treading lightly
A cost-effectiveness analysis of primary versus hospital-based specialist care for direct acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment
Upscaling prevention, testing and treatment to control hepatitis C as a public health threat in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
A costing analysis of a state-wide, nurse-led hepatitis C treatment model in prison
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation
INTRODUCTION: With limited resources, attaining maximal average health service coverage can be at odds with maximising equity which attempts to promote greater reach among underserved populations. In this study, we examined the trade-offs in immunisation coverage levels and equity for children under 5 years of age in Pakistan across various subpopulations who can be targeted with different combinations of immunisation service modalities. METHODS:…
Evaluating the potential cost-effectiveness of microarray patches to expand access to hepatitis B birth dose vaccination in low-and middle-income countries
Timely birth dose vaccination is key for achieving elimination of hepatitis B, however, programmatic requirements for delivering current vaccine presentations to births outside of health facilities inhibits coverage within many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Vaccine technologies in development such as microarray patches (MAPs) could assist in overcoming these barriers, but procurement could incur higher per-dose commodity costs than cur…
Cost effectiveness of simplified HCV screening-and-treatment interventions for people who inject drugs in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Hepatitis C incidence among patients attending primary care health services that specialise in the care of people who inject drugs, Victoria, Australia, 2009 to 2020
Keeping kids in school
Background: In 2021, the Australian Government Department of Health commissioned a consortium of modelling groups to generate evidence assisting the transition from a goal of no community COVID-19 transmission to 'living with COVID-19', with adverse health and social consequences limited by vaccination and other measures. Due to the extended school closures over 2020-21, maximizing face-to-face teaching was a major objective during this transitio…
Health and economic benefits of achieving contraceptive and maternal health targets in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and Caribbean
INTRODUCTION: Reducing unmet need for modern contraception and expanding access to quality maternal health (MH) services are priorities for improving women's health and economic empowerment. To support investment decisions, we estimated the additional cost and expected health and economic benefits of achieving the United Nations targets of zero unmet need for modern contraceptive choices and 95% coverage of MH services by 2030 in select Small Isl…
Covid-19 epidemic modelling for policy decision support in Victoria, Australia 2020–2021
Model evidence offered the greatest value when decisions needed to be made pre-emptively, or for questions that could not be answered with empiric data and data analysis alone. Co-designing scenarios with policy-makers ensured relevance and increased policy translation
Evaluation of a person-centred, nurse-led model of care delivering hepatitis C testing and treatment in priority settings
Providing outreach hepatitis C services in community-based services was effective in engaging people living with and at-risk of hepatitis C, in education, testing, and care. Nurse-led, person-centred care was critical to the success of the project. Our evaluation underscores the importance of employing a partnership approach when delivering hepatitis C models of care in community settings, and incorporating workforce education and capacity-buildi…
Connecting patients notified with hepatitis C to treatment (Connect Study)
This was the first prospective randomised study of the utility of immediate HCV notification follow-up of primary care practitioners to enhance treatment uptake using disease notification surveillance data. We demonstrated improvement in HCV RNA testing and trend toward better engagement in care, but no significant increase in treatment uptake
Covid-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities
Introduction: A disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths occur in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), where better evidence is needed to target COVID-19 interventions to prevent mortality. This study used an agent-based model to assess the role of community prevalence, vaccination strategies, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on COVID-19 outcomes in RACFs in Victoria, Australia. Methods: The model simulated outbreaks in RACFs ov…
Evaluation of the use of modelling in resource allocation decisions for HIV and TB
INTRODUCTION: Globally, resources for health spending, including HIV and tuberculosis (TB), are constrained, and a substantial gap exists between spending and estimated needs. Optima is an allocative efficiency modelling tool that has been used since 2010 in over 50 settings to generate evidence for country-level HIV and TB resource allocation decisions. This evaluation assessed the utilisation of modelling to inform financing priorities from the…
Medicine (23 obras) · Environmental health (16 obras) · Hepatitis B Virus Studies (9 obras) · Hepatitis C virus research (9 obras) · Internal Medicine (9 obras) · Psychological intervention (9 obras) · Nursing (8 obras) · Virology (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Hepatitis C (7 obras)