Andrew Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9703-7891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Strategists, Contrarians, Enthusiasts, and Advocates
Despite the importance of accreditation in U.S. higher education, scholarship examining faculty and administrators’ perspectives on it is limited, anecdotal, or institution specific. This Q methodology study investigates the subjective views of 54 faculty and administrators engaged in institutional accreditation work across the United States. Q methodology enables researchers to blend quantitative and qualitative approaches to reveal distinct and…
If we ask, we must act”
Consumer engagement produced important insights that would've otherwise been missed, ensuring the P-PROM ROCK Program empowers patients. For generic P-PROMs to meaningfully impact patient-clinician visits, supports and resources are required to ensure clinical review and action
The quality of life impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS)
We found that COVID-19-related adversity reduced the HRQoL of PwMS. Our HSU estimates can be used in health economic models to evaluate lockdown cost-effectiveness for people with complex and chronic (mainly neurological) diseases
Estimating the disutility of relapse in relapsing–remitting and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis using the EQ-5D-5L, AQoL-8D, EQ-5D-5L-psychosocial, and SF-6D
MS-related relapses are associated with substantial utility decrements. As the type and severity of MS influence disutility of relapse, the use of disability severity and MS-type-specific disutility inputs is recommended in future health economic evaluations of MS. Our study supports relapse management and prevention as major mechanisms to improve QoL in people with MS
Assessing health state utilities for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in Australia using the EQ-5D-5L, AQoL-8D and EQ-5D-5L-psychosocial instruments
ME/CFS has a profound impact on HRQoL. The AQoL-8D and EQ-5D-5L-Psychosocial can be used interchangeably: the latter represents a reduced participant burden
Maternal choices and preferences for screening strategies of gestational diabetes mellitus
Aims: This study aimed to investigate maternal preferences for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) screening options in rural China to identify an optimal GDM screening strategy. Methods: Pregnant women at 24-28 gestational weeks were recruited from Shandong province, China. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted to elicit pregnant women's preferences for GDM screening strategy defined by five attributes: number of blood draws, out-of-p…
Prevalence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Australian primary care patients
ME/CFS affects a substantial number of Australians. Whilst this study provides prevalence estimates for the Australian primary care setting, the qualitative evidence highlights the limitations of these. Future research should focus on using robust case ascertainment criteria in a community setting. Quantification of the burden of disease can be used to inform health policy and planning, for this understudied condition
The relative contribution of co-morbidities to health-related quality of life of people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using the Assessment of Quality of Life-8-Dimension multi-attribute utility i…
Validation of the EQ-5D-5L and psychosocial bolt-ons in a large cohort of people living with multiple sclerosis in Australia
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system which results in disability over time and reduced quality of life. To increase the sensitivity of the EQ-5D-5L for psychosocial health, four bolt-on items from the AQoL-8D were used to create the nine-item EQ-5D-5L-Psychosocial. We aimed to externally validate the EQ-5D-5L-Psychosocial in a large cohort of people with MS (pwMS) and explo…
Assessment of health-related quality of life in Australian patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
The EQ-5D-5L demonstrated superior performance when compared to AQoL-8D in persons with IPF. This may be attributable to the high symptom burden which is physically debilitating to which the EQ-5D-5L may be more sensitive
Measuring Hypertension Progression With Transition Probabilities
This paper assessed the transition probabilities between the stages of hypertension severity and the length of time an individual might spend at a particular disease state using the new American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association hypertension blood pressure guidelines. Data for this study were drawn from the Ghana WHO SAGE longitudinal study, with an analytical sample of 1884 across two waves. Using a multistate Markov model, we est…
The impact of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on health state utility values
Association between knee symptoms, change in knee symptoms over 6–9 years, and SF-6D health state utility among middle-aged Australians
Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana
INTRODUCTION: Prior studies have revealed the increasing prevalence of obesity and its associated health effects among ageing adults in resource poor countries. However, no study has examined the long-term and economic impact of overweight and obesity in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, we quantified the long-term impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy (LE), quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and total direct healthcare costs. METHODS…
Health Impacts of Ambient Biomass Smoke in Tasmania, Australia
The island state of Tasmania has marked seasonal variations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentrations related to wood heating during winter, planned forest fires during autumn and spring, and bushfires during summer. Biomass smoke causes considerable health harms and associated costs. We estimated the historical health burden from PM 2.5 attributable to wood heater smoke (WHS) and landscape fire smoke (LFS) in Tasmania between 2010 and …
SF-6D health state utilities for lifestyle, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of a large international cohort of people with multiple sclerosis
Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires
Evaluating Health Related Quality of Life in Older People at Risk of Osteoporotic Fracture
Health service utilization and direct healthcare costs associated with obesity in older adult population in Ghana
Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases and disabilities, with severe implications on morbidity and mortality among older adults. With an increasing prevalence of obesity among older adults in Ghana, it has become necessary to develop cost-effective strategies for its management and prevention. However, developing such strategies is challenging as body mass index (BMI)-specific utilization and costs required for cost-effectivenes…
Health care, overconsumption and uneconomic growth
Concerns have grown in recent decades that economic growth in many rich countries may, in fact, be uneconomic. Uneconomic growth occurs when expansion in economic activity causes environmental and social costs that are greater than the benefits of that additional activity. Health care has enjoyed a close historical relationship with economic growth, with health care spending consistently growing faster than GDP over the long term. This paper expl…
Annual transition probabilities of overweight and obesity in older adults
The Remembered Dead
Chapter 1 'But You Are Dead!' Early Struggles over Representation -Th ese are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fi ngers in their hair of murders, Multitudinous murders they once witnessed
The Rimbaud of Leeds
The Rimbaud of Leeds: The Political Character of Tony Harrison's Poetry." English Studies, 99(6), pp. 704–705
What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery
OBJECTIVE: To explore the support needs and experiences of patients who had received publicly or privately funded bariatric surgery and the importance of this support in mediating outcomes of surgery. METHODS: Seven semi-structured focus groups were conducted. A broad interview schedule guided the discussions which were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed thematically. RESULTS: Twenty-six women and 15 men with a mean age o…
Has equity in government subsidy on healthcare improved in China? Evidence from the China’s National Health Services Survey
The benefit distribution of government healthcare subsidies has been strongly influenced by China's health insurance schemes. Their compensation policies and benefit packages need reform to improve the benefit equity between outpatient and inpatient care both in urban and rural areas
Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires
Suicide methods in Europe
OBJECTIVE: To identify the most frequent gender-specific suicide methods in Europe. DESIGN: Proportions of seven predominant suicide methods utilised in 16 countries participating in the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD) were reported in total and cross-nationally. Relative risk (RR) relating to suicide methods and gender was calculated. To group countries by pattern of suicide methods, hierarchical clustering was applied. SETTING AND P…
Annual transition probabilities of overweight and obesity in older adults
The inauguration anthem of Hagia Sophia in Edessa
Of the two great sixth-century inauguration anthems on churches dedicated to “Holy Wisdom” it is, oddly enough, that from the Mesopotamian city of Edessa, not its Constantinopolitan equivalent on the Great Church of the metropolis, which has been translated and retranslated, re-edited and revisited by historians of architecture and of theological symbolism and by students of its wider context in the epoch of Justinian. This is partly because exce…
Health care, overconsumption and uneconomic growth
Concerns have grown in recent decades that economic growth in many rich countries may, in fact, be uneconomic. Uneconomic growth occurs when expansion in economic activity causes environmental and social costs that are greater than the benefits of that additional activity. Health care has enjoyed a close historical relationship with economic growth, with health care spending consistently growing faster than GDP over the long term. This paper expl…
A Link with Late Nineteenth-Century Decadence in ‘Maurice Guest’
Palmer critiques Nietzschean readings of Maurice Guest, arguing that the character of Kraft is better served by viewing him 'as a Decadent figure and seeing his Nietzschean posturing as a system of the decadence in his character
The inauguration anthem of Hagia Sophia in Edessa
Of the two great sixth-century inauguration anthems on churches dedicated to “Holy Wisdom” it is, oddly enough, that from the Mesopotamian city of Edessa, not its Constantinopolitan equivalent on the Great Church of the metropolis, which has been translated and retranslated, re-edited and revisited by historians of architecture and of theological symbolism and by students of its wider context in the epoch of Justinian. This is partly because exce…
B. Reviews
REGIERUNG UND VERWALTUNG DES VORDEREN ORIENTS IN ISLAMISCHER ZEIT. TEIL 2. Mit Beiträgen von D. SOURDEL und J. BOSCH VILÁ. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band VI: Geschichte der islamischen Länder, Abschnitt 5.) Leiden, Brill, 1988. vi, 152pp. Hfl.68.‐ (58.‐ to Series subscribers). BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945–87. By FRANK BRENCHLEY. (Middle East Studies.) London, Lester Crook, 1989. 391pp. AN IMPERIAL TWILIGHT. By SIR GAWA…
The Inauguration Anthem of Hagia Sophia Again
On Christmas Day, 1988,1 received from Marc Deprez the draft of an article entitled Noël et Hanoucah , which threw some further light on the imagery used in the kontakion translated by me in BMGS 12. On p. 146 I referred to ‘a verbal reminiscence of the Feast of Booths’, where the poet writes: In celebrating the Word’s divine sojourn in the Body may we, the children of his Church, be thatched with luminous virtues worthy of his grace, and may we …
Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier
The Apocryphal New Testament
The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles
A New Testimony From India To the Syriac Version of Pseudo-Dionysius (Pampakuda, Konat Collection, Ms. 239)
Suicide methods in Europe
OBJECTIVE: To identify the most frequent gender-specific suicide methods in Europe. DESIGN: Proportions of seven predominant suicide methods utilised in 16 countries participating in the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD) were reported in total and cross-nationally. Relative risk (RR) relating to suicide methods and gender was calculated. To group countries by pattern of suicide methods, hierarchical clustering was applied. SETTING AND P…
Vatican secret diplomacy
Suboptimal use of HIV drug resistance testing in a universal health-care setting
HIV drug resistance testing is recommended as routine part of clinical practice in HIV/AIDS treatment and care. Our objective is to assess the determinants of accessing HIV drug resistance testing and examine the factors associated with resistance testing prior to or after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in a setting where access to HIV care is free and universal. The Longitudinal Investigation into Supportive and Ancillary …
High prevalence of food insecurity among HIV-infected individuals receiving Haart in a resource-rich setting
This study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of food insecurity in a cohort of HIV-infected individuals on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Adults receiving HAART voluntarily enrolled into the Longitudinal Investigations into Supportive and Ancillary Health Services (LISA) cohort. Individual food insecurity was measured using a modified version of the Radimer/Cornell Questionnaire. We perf…
In a Land that I Love”
In Britain, the rise of rock music coincided with the fall of empire, but the two are rarely connected. This paper considers a distinctive exception, the Kinks' album Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1969), in which Ray Davies develops a unique hybrid of rock music and social commentary, drawing the aesthetic of the “Angry Young Man” into the rock revolution, to offer a series of connected songs exploring the working-class ex…
Construct validity of SF-6D health state utility values in an employed population
Residents with mild cognitive decline and family members report health students ‘enhance capacity of care’ and bring ‘a new breath of life’ in two aged care facilities in T asmania
BACKGROUND: Care provided by student doctors and nurses is well received by patients in hospital and primary care settings. Whether the same is true for aged care residents of nursing homes with mild cognitive decline and their family members is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the perspectives of aged care residents with mild cognitive decline and their family members on interdisciplinary student placements in two residential aged care facilit…
Encounters with British Composers
Contemporary British composers talk about their music, with the emphasis on the aesthetic sensibilities and psychological processes behind composing rather than technique. This book features interviews with leading and upcoming British composers who use the same raw materials but produce classical music that takes very different forms. Uniquely, Andrew Palmer approaches the sometimes baffling worldof contemporary music from the point of view of t…
Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China
China's primary level health care facilities were found to have a more equitable benefit distribution of government health subsidies than the secondary- and tertiary- level facilities. Increased government budget allocations and insurance imbursement rates, and the provision of technical support and qualified medical staff to lower-level hospitals were key factors. However, the provision of equal subsidies to all socioeconomic levels was found to…
What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery
OBJECTIVE: To explore the support needs and experiences of patients who had received publicly or privately funded bariatric surgery and the importance of this support in mediating outcomes of surgery. METHODS: Seven semi-structured focus groups were conducted. A broad interview schedule guided the discussions which were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed thematically. RESULTS: Twenty-six women and 15 men with a mean age o…
Has equity in government subsidy on healthcare improved in China? Evidence from the China’s National Health Services Survey
The benefit distribution of government healthcare subsidies has been strongly influenced by China's health insurance schemes. Their compensation policies and benefit packages need reform to improve the benefit equity between outpatient and inpatient care both in urban and rural areas
Establishing benchmark EQ-5D-3L population health state utilities and identifying their correlates in Gansu Province, China
The Remembered Dead
Chapter 1 'But You Are Dead!' Early Struggles over Representation -Th ese are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fi ngers in their hair of murders, Multitudinous murders they once witnessed
The Rimbaud of Leeds
The Rimbaud of Leeds: The Political Character of Tony Harrison's Poetry." English Studies, 99(6), pp. 704–705
Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana
INTRODUCTION: Prior studies have revealed the increasing prevalence of obesity and its associated health effects among ageing adults in resource poor countries. However, no study has examined the long-term and economic impact of overweight and obesity in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, we quantified the long-term impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy (LE), quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and total direct healthcare costs. METHODS…
Health Impacts of Ambient Biomass Smoke in Tasmania, Australia
The island state of Tasmania has marked seasonal variations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentrations related to wood heating during winter, planned forest fires during autumn and spring, and bushfires during summer. Biomass smoke causes considerable health harms and associated costs. We estimated the historical health burden from PM 2.5 attributable to wood heater smoke (WHS) and landscape fire smoke (LFS) in Tasmania between 2010 and …
SF-6D health state utilities for lifestyle, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of a large international cohort of people with multiple sclerosis
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