David Simmons

Datos Biográficos

ID3616889
NOMBREDavid Simmons
NOMBRESDavid
APELLIDOSimmons
FIRMASIMMONS D
AFILIACIONESWestern Sydney University
ORCID0000-0003-0560-0761
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS73
TOTAL DE CITAS69
TOTAL COMO AUTOR72
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1983
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H5

  • Adequacy of health message tailoring for ethnic minorities

    Open AccessElizabeth Palu, Kate A McBride et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    Ethnic minorities, such as Pasifika, residing in high-income countries were at higher risk of COVID-19 infection during the pandemic. To understand the experiences of Pasifika, including message dissemination and barriers to tailored public health messaging during the pandemic, a qualitative study was undertaken, underpinned by Laswell’s Model of Communication and Bandura’s social cognitive theory with data collected using Pasifika methods. Pasif…

  • Stakeholder Perspectives on the Acceptability, Design, and Integration of Produce Prescriptions for People with Type 2 Diabetes in Australia

    Open AccessKristy K Law, Kathy Trieu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Produce prescription programs can benefit both individuals and health systems; however, best practices for integrating such programs into the Australian health system are yet unknown. This study explored stakeholders' perspectives on the acceptability, potential design and integration of produce prescription programs for adults with type 2 diabetes in Australia. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 22 participants for an online workshop, repres…

  • All-cause, premature, and cardiovascular death attributable to socioeconomic and ethnic disparities among New Zealanders with type 1 diabetes 1994–2019

    Open AccessDahai Yu, Yamei Cai et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Our results suggest that socioeconomic disparities were responsible for a substantial proportion of all-cause, premature and CVD mortality in people with T1DM in Auckland, NZ. Reducing socioeconomic barriers to management and self-management would likely improve clinical outcomes

  • Effectiveness of Diabetes Case Conferencing Program on Diabetes Management

    Open AccessReetu Zarora, David SimmonsARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Glycaemia, weight and cardiovascular risk factors improved following case conferencing consultations in a primary care setting

  • Identifying Frailty in Older Adults in Rural Victoria, Australia

    Open AccessClaudia Atala‐Acevedo, Roisin McGrath et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2023Referencias: 6

    Objectives: To determine the prevalence of frailty among community-dwelling older adults in regional Victoria, Australia. Methods: Frailty status of 376 participants from the Crossroads II cross-sectional study was assessed by selected markers of frailty. The selected variables were psychometrically tested. Associations between frailty and socio-demographic, environmental and health factors were analysed using chi-square, ANOVA and binary logisti…

  • Effectiveness of Integrated Diabetes Care Interventions Involving Diabetes Specialists Working in Primary and Community Care Settings

    Open AccessReetu Zarora, Jincy Immanuel et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

  • Peer support facilitator and peer perspectives of an inner‐regional Australian diabetes prevention and self‐management peer support program

    Open AccessClaire Kim, Freya MacMillan et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2022Referencias: 2

    Peer support programmes have been shown to facilitate diabetes prevention and improvements in diabetes self-management. Worldwide, few studies have qualitatively evaluated peer support programs in inner-regional (semi-rural) areas, and none involving mixtures of people with and without diabetes. This study researched an inner-regional peer support programme underway over 2 years in Australia. Fifteen participants, including ten peers and five pee…

  • Batey Studies as a Critical Area of Research and Intervention

    David SimmonsARTICLEHuman Organization2021

    Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share MailTo Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Simmons; Batey Studies as a Critical Area of Research and Intervention: A Reflection on “Structural Violence as Social Practice: Haitian Agricultural Workers, Anti-Haitianism, and Health in the Dominican Republic”. Human Organization 1 Sept…

  • Using Community Based Research Frameworks to Develop and Implement a Church-Based Program to Prevent Diabetes and Its Complications for Samoan Communities in South Western Sydney

    Open AccessDorothy W Ndwiga, Kate A McBride et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Pasifika communities bear a disproportionate burden of diabetes compared to the general Australian population. Community-based participatory research (CBPR), which involves working in partnership with researchers and communities to address local health needs, has gained prominence as a model of working with underserved communities. This paper describes how Le Taeao Afua (LTA) Samoan diabetes prevention program was underpinned by two CBPR framewor…

  • Eight-Year Retrospective Study of Young Adults in a Diabetes Transition Clinic

    Open AccessAarooran Sritharan, Uchechukwu L Osuagwu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The transition of people from paediatric to adult diabetes services is associated with worsening glycaemia and increased diabetes-related hospitalisation. This study compared the clinical characteristics of those with and without mental health conditions among attenders at a diabetes young adult clinic diabetes before and after changes in service delivery. Retrospective audit of 200 people with diabetes attending a Sydney public hospital over eig…

  • Comparison of Pregnancy Outcomes Using Different Gestational Diabetes Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment Thresholds in Multiethnic Communities between Two Tertiary Centres in Australian and New Zealand

    Open AccessLili Yuen, Vincent Wong et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The IADPSG diagnostic criteria were associated with the lowest rate of composite outcomes. Earlier NZ screening with HbA1c was not associated with a change in adverse pregnancy outcomes

  • Prevalence and Burden of Diabetes-Related Foot Disease in New South Wales, Australia

    Open AccessMoin Uddin Ahmed, Kathy Tannous et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Diabetes-related foot disease (DFD) is a major public health concern due to the higher risks of hospitalisation. However, estimates of the prevalence of DFD in the general population are not available in Australia. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of DFD and diabetes-related lower-extremity amputation (DLEA) among people aged 45 years and over in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The NSW 45 and Up Study baseline survey data of 267,086 p…

  • The Adips Pilot National Diabetes in Pregnancy Benchmarking Programme

    Open AccessJincy Immanuel, Jeff R Flack et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Background: To test the feasibility of benchmarking the care of women with pregnancies complicated by hyperglycaemia. Methods: A retrospective audit of volunteer diabetes services in Australia and New Zealand involving singleton pregnancies resulting in live births between 2014 and 2020. Ranges are shown and compared across services. Results: The audit included 10,144 pregnancies (gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) = 8696; type 1 diabetes (T1D) …

  • Analysis of in-hospital mortality among people with and without diabetes in South Western Sydney public hospitals (2014–2017)

    Open AccessTina Gao, Kingsley E Agho et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    In-patients with diabetes continue to have higher mortality rates than those without diabetes and the Australian population. Overall, similar factors influenced mortality rate in people with and without diabetes, but significantly more people with diabetes had two or more co-morbidities, suggesting that hospital mortality may be driven by those with pre-existing health/comorbidities. Urgent measures in primary care to prevent admissions among peo…

  • Living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Kingdom of Tonga

    Open AccessJennifer Taumoepeau, Catherine R Knight‐Agarwal et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The qualitative findings from this study will assist the future development and information dissemination of culturally appropriate lifestyle-related for men and women living with T2DM in the Kingdom of Tonga. The need for collaboration between practitioners at the hospital, the church, family members, and local traditional healers is important if the lifestyle-related needs and wants of this group of people are to be met

  • Diabetes Detection and Communication among Patients Admitted through the Emergency Department of a Public Hospital

    Open AccessUchechukwu L Osuagwu, Osuagwu Uchechukwu Levi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Early identification/diagnosis of diabetes and frequent monitoring of hyperglycemia reduces hospitalizations and diabetes-related complications. The present study investigated the proportion of older adults coded with diabetes or newly diagnosed during their admissions and assessed discharge summary content for diabetes-related information. The study used electronic data on 4796 individuals aged ≥60 years admitted through the emergency department…

  • Challenges to Introducing Integrated Diabetes Care to an Inner-Regional Area in South Western Sydney, Australia

    Open AccessReetu Zarora, Rati Jani et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020Referencias: 4

    This study highlights the need to integrate new diabetes services with existing health activities in the community and the importance of allowing flexibility and regular contact with local healthcare professional and community to encourage their involvement. Regular meetings with the funders, internal and external stakeholders are key for sustainability and to adapt programmes to the local situation. Further work is needed to identify and impleme…

  • A Qualitative Exploration of Fijian Perceptions of Diabetes

    Open AccessCatherine Dearie, Shamieka Dubois et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Rates of diabetes are high in many communities of Pacific Island peoples, including people from Fiji. This qualitative study explores knowledge and attitudes towards diabetes among i-Taukei Fijians to facilitate the cultural tailoring of diabetes prevention and management programs for this community. Fijians aged 26 to 71 years (n = 15), residing in Australia, participated in semi-structured interviews; 53% (n = 8) were male. Interviews were audi…

  • Understanding the Social Environmental Influences on Pregnancy and Planning for Pregnancy for Young Women in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Open AccessChiwoneso B Tinago, Lucy Annang Ingram et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2019

  • Challenges associated with integrating care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who have diabetes

    Open AccessKylie Smythe, Balwinder Sidhu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)

  • Longitudinal study of health, disease and access to care in rural Victoria

    Open AccessKristen Glenister, Lisa Bourke et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Besides providing epidemiological and health service utilisation information relating to different diseases and their risk factors in towns of different sizes, the results will be used to develop a composite measure of health service access. The importance of access to health services will be investigated by assessing the correlation of this measure with rates of undiagnosed and undermanaged disease at the mesh block level. Results will be shared…

  • The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme

    Open AccessDavid Simmons, Rati Jani et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021

  • Integrating Health Care – Our Journey Continues

    Open AccessFriedbert Köhler, Alan Mcdougall et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)

  • Understanding Conceptualizations of Pregnancy and Planning for Pregnancy Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Open AccessChiwoneso B Tinago, Lucy Annang Ingram et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2018Citada por: 4Referencias: 23

    Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality, yet little is understood about adolescent girls' and young women's perspectives on pregnancy or planning for pregnancy. The research study took an emic approach to understand and describe how adolescent girls and young women (14-24 years) in Harare, Zimbabwe, conceptualize pregnancy and planning for pregnancy and how these conceptualizations inform pregnancy decisions. Semi-structured, …

  • Structured inter-network collaboration

    Open AccessDan Lin, Lin Dan et al.ARTICLETourism Management2017Citada por: 9Referencias: 48