Rob Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3849001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1586-5619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Development of algorithms for estimating the Child Health Utility 9D from Caregiver Priorities and Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities
This study established algorithms for estimating CHU9D utilities from CPCHILD scores for non-ambulatory children with CP. The determined algorithms can be valuable for estimating quality-adjusted life years for cost-utility analysis when only the CPCHILD instrument is available. However, further studies with larger sample sizes and external validation are recommended to validate these findings
Understanding key worker experiences at an Australian Early Childhood Intervention Service
The delivery of family-centred practice (FCP) within Early Childhood Intervention Services (ECISs) for young children with a disability or development delay conceptualises that children's learning environments, parenting, family and community supports intersect to have the greatest impact on the developing child. The transdisciplinary key worker model is considered a best-practice approach within ECISs whereby staff work collaboratively across di…
Trial protocol
The trial was retrospectively registered in September, 2017 ( ACTRN12616001276448 ), as communities were selected prior to trial registration; however, participants were recruited after registration. Findings will be disseminated in peer-review journals and community fora
Extending the paradigm
Objective The current short communication aimed to provide a new conceptualisation of the policy drivers of inequities in healthy eating and to make a call to action to begin populating this framework with evidence of actions that can be taken to reduce the inequities in healthy eating. Design The Healthy and Equitable Eating (HE 2 ) Framework derives from a systems-based analytical approach involving expert workshops. Setting Australia. Subjects…
Obesity-related health impacts of fuel excise taxation- an evidence review and cost-effectiveness study
Exploratory analysis suggests that an intervention to increase fuel excise taxation may deliver obesity and physical activity related benefits. Whilst such an intervention has significant potential for cost-effectiveness, potential equity and acceptability impacts would need to be minimised. A better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a range of transport interventions is required in order to achieve more physically acti…
Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity
Background : Community-based initiatives show promise for preventing childhood obesity. They are characterized by community leaders and members working together to address complex local drivers of energy balance. Objectives : To present a protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial in ten communities in the Great South Coast Region of Victoria, Australia to test whether it is possible to: (1) strengthen community action for childhood ob…
The health and economic benefits of reducing intimate partner violence
This study contributes new knowledge about the economic impact of IPV in females. The findings provide evidence of large potential opportunity cost savings from reducing the prevalence of IPV and reinforce the need to reduce IPV in Australia, and elsewhere
Gallery Artists
February 01 2013 Gallery Artists E.V. Day, E.V. Day U.S.A. http://carolinanitsch.com/index.php?/projects/ev-day/ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Chris Drury, Chris Drury U.K. http://carolinanitsch.com/index.php?/projects/ev-day/ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Anthony Discenza, Anthony Discenza U.S.A. http://cclarkgallery.com/artists/works/anthony-discenza Search for other work…
Improving the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in Australia
Changing to absolute risk-based cardiovascular disease prevention is highly recommended for reducing health sector spending, but the Australian Government must also consider measures to reduce the cost of statin drugs, over and above the legislated price cuts of November 2010
Implementation salvage experiences from the Melbourne diabetes prevention study
The experiences of conducting such a novel trial as the preliminary Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study have been invaluable. The lessons learnt and knowledge gained will inform the future execution of this trial in the coming years. We anticipate that these results will also be beneficial to other researchers conducting similar trials in the public health field. We recommend that researchers openly share their experiences, barriers and challenge…
The Economic Gains of Achieving Reduced Alcohol Consumption Targets for Australia
Objectives. To inform prevention policy, we estimated the economic benefits to health, production, and leisure in the 2008 Australian population of a realistic target reduction in per capita annual adult alcohol consumption. Methods. We chose a target of 6.4 liters annually per capita on average. We modeled lifetime health benefits as fewer incident cases of alcohol-related disease, deaths, and disability adjusted life years. We estimated product…
Changing the future of obesity
An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12609000953235
The societal benefits of reducing six behavioural risk factors
A large proportion of disease burden is attributed to behavioural risk factors. However, funding for public health programs in Australia remains limited. Government and non-government organisations are interested in the productivity effects on society from reducing chronic diseases. We aimed to estimate the potential health status and economic benefits to society following a feasible reduction in the prevalence of six behavioural risk factors: to…
RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
ISRCTN: ISRCTN85202510
Economic Benefits of Achieving Realistic Smoking Cessation Targets in Australia
Objectives. We estimated the economic impact of reductions in the prevalence of tobacco smoking on health, production, and leisure in the 2008 Australian population. Methods. We selected a prevalence target of 15%. Cohort lifetime health benefits were modeled as fewer incident cases of tobacco-related diseases, deaths, and disability-adjusted life-years. We estimated production gains by comparing surveyed participation and absenteeism rates of ad…
A cost-based equity weight for use in the economic evaluation of primary health care interventions
Cost-based weights have the potential to provide a pragmatic method of equity weight construction which is both understandable to policy makers and sensitive to the needs of target groups. It could improve the evidence base for resource allocation decisions, and be generalised to other disadvantaged groups who share similar concepts of equity. Development of this decision-making tool represents a potentially important avenue for further health ec…
Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Obesity (ACE-Obesity)
The use of consistent methods enables valid comparison of potential intervention costs and cost-offsets for each of the interventions. ACE-Obesity informs policy-makers about cost-effectiveness, health impact, affordability and 2nd stage filters for important options for preventing unhealthy weight gain in children. In related articles cost-effectiveness results and second stage filter considerations for each intervention assessed will be present…
Cost-effectiveness of a family-based GP-mediated intervention targeting overweight and moderately obese children
Priority setting in health care using multi-attribute utility theory and programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)
Agglomeration and regionalism
The excavation of several stratified settlements has transformed our knowledge of southeast Arabian prehistory from a series of snapshots to a more or less continuous exposure. In this paper we would like to explore the recently clarified period between c.1300 and 1100 BC (the Iron Age I period) (2). Although the existence of a discrete material culture horizon belonging to this period is now well established, there has been a reluctance on the p…
Personalities of Players of Dungeons and Dragons
20 men who played Dungeons and Dragons did not differ in mean scores on depression, suicidal ideation, psychoticism, extraversion, or neuroticism from unselected undergraduates
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
Job requirements derived from the Position Analysis Questionnaire and validated using military aptitude test scores
Measured mental and physical abilities of incumbents in selected US Navy jobs were compared with job requirements predicted using the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). A significant and meaningful pattern of correlations was found between commercially available PAQ attribute predictions derived from 25 Navy jobs and mental abilities measured using the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery. Additionally, significant relationships were foun…
Skilled Labour Shortages and Wage 'Roll‐out’ Effects in an Energy‐rich Region
Agglomeration and regionalism
The excavation of several stratified settlements has transformed our knowledge of southeast Arabian prehistory from a series of snapshots to a more or less continuous exposure. In this paper we would like to explore the recently clarified period between c.1300 and 1100 BC (the Iron Age I period) (2). Although the existence of a discrete material culture horizon belonging to this period is now well established, there has been a reluctance on the p…
Priority setting in health care using multi-attribute utility theory and programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)
Economic Benefits of Achieving Realistic Smoking Cessation Targets in Australia
Objectives. We estimated the economic impact of reductions in the prevalence of tobacco smoking on health, production, and leisure in the 2008 Australian population. Methods. We selected a prevalence target of 15%. Cohort lifetime health benefits were modeled as fewer incident cases of tobacco-related diseases, deaths, and disability-adjusted life-years. We estimated production gains by comparing surveyed participation and absenteeism rates of ad…
Skilled Labour Shortages and Wage 'Roll‐out’ Effects in an Energy‐rich Region
Skilled labour shortages and wage ‘roll-out’ effects in an energy-rich region
Job requirements derived from the Position Analysis Questionnaire and validated using military aptitude test scores
Measured mental and physical abilities of incumbents in selected US Navy jobs were compared with job requirements predicted using the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). A significant and meaningful pattern of correlations was found between commercially available PAQ attribute predictions derived from 25 Navy jobs and mental abilities measured using the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery. Additionally, significant relationships were foun…
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
Personalities of Players of Dungeons and Dragons
20 men who played Dungeons and Dragons did not differ in mean scores on depression, suicidal ideation, psychoticism, extraversion, or neuroticism from unselected undergraduates
Agglomeration and regionalism
The excavation of several stratified settlements has transformed our knowledge of southeast Arabian prehistory from a series of snapshots to a more or less continuous exposure. In this paper we would like to explore the recently clarified period between c.1300 and 1100 BC (the Iron Age I period) (2). Although the existence of a discrete material culture horizon belonging to this period is now well established, there has been a reluctance on the p…
Priority setting in health care using multi-attribute utility theory and programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)
Cost-effectiveness of a family-based GP-mediated intervention targeting overweight and moderately obese children
A cost-based equity weight for use in the economic evaluation of primary health care interventions
Cost-based weights have the potential to provide a pragmatic method of equity weight construction which is both understandable to policy makers and sensitive to the needs of target groups. It could improve the evidence base for resource allocation decisions, and be generalised to other disadvantaged groups who share similar concepts of equity. Development of this decision-making tool represents a potentially important avenue for further health ec…
Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Obesity (ACE-Obesity)
The use of consistent methods enables valid comparison of potential intervention costs and cost-offsets for each of the interventions. ACE-Obesity informs policy-makers about cost-effectiveness, health impact, affordability and 2nd stage filters for important options for preventing unhealthy weight gain in children. In related articles cost-effectiveness results and second stage filter considerations for each intervention assessed will be present…
Changing the future of obesity
An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12609000953235
The societal benefits of reducing six behavioural risk factors
A large proportion of disease burden is attributed to behavioural risk factors. However, funding for public health programs in Australia remains limited. Government and non-government organisations are interested in the productivity effects on society from reducing chronic diseases. We aimed to estimate the potential health status and economic benefits to society following a feasible reduction in the prevalence of six behavioural risk factors: to…
RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
ISRCTN: ISRCTN85202510
Economic Benefits of Achieving Realistic Smoking Cessation Targets in Australia
Objectives. We estimated the economic impact of reductions in the prevalence of tobacco smoking on health, production, and leisure in the 2008 Australian population. Methods. We selected a prevalence target of 15%. Cohort lifetime health benefits were modeled as fewer incident cases of tobacco-related diseases, deaths, and disability-adjusted life-years. We estimated production gains by comparing surveyed participation and absenteeism rates of ad…
Improving the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in Australia
Changing to absolute risk-based cardiovascular disease prevention is highly recommended for reducing health sector spending, but the Australian Government must also consider measures to reduce the cost of statin drugs, over and above the legislated price cuts of November 2010
Implementation salvage experiences from the Melbourne diabetes prevention study
The experiences of conducting such a novel trial as the preliminary Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study have been invaluable. The lessons learnt and knowledge gained will inform the future execution of this trial in the coming years. We anticipate that these results will also be beneficial to other researchers conducting similar trials in the public health field. We recommend that researchers openly share their experiences, barriers and challenge…
The Economic Gains of Achieving Reduced Alcohol Consumption Targets for Australia
Objectives. To inform prevention policy, we estimated the economic benefits to health, production, and leisure in the 2008 Australian population of a realistic target reduction in per capita annual adult alcohol consumption. Methods. We chose a target of 6.4 liters annually per capita on average. We modeled lifetime health benefits as fewer incident cases of alcohol-related disease, deaths, and disability adjusted life years. We estimated product…
Gallery Artists
February 01 2013 Gallery Artists E.V. Day, E.V. Day U.S.A. http://carolinanitsch.com/index.php?/projects/ev-day/ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Chris Drury, Chris Drury U.K. http://carolinanitsch.com/index.php?/projects/ev-day/ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Anthony Discenza, Anthony Discenza U.S.A. http://cclarkgallery.com/artists/works/anthony-discenza Search for other work…
The health and economic benefits of reducing intimate partner violence
This study contributes new knowledge about the economic impact of IPV in females. The findings provide evidence of large potential opportunity cost savings from reducing the prevalence of IPV and reinforce the need to reduce IPV in Australia, and elsewhere
Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity
Background : Community-based initiatives show promise for preventing childhood obesity. They are characterized by community leaders and members working together to address complex local drivers of energy balance. Objectives : To present a protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial in ten communities in the Great South Coast Region of Victoria, Australia to test whether it is possible to: (1) strengthen community action for childhood ob…
Obesity-related health impacts of fuel excise taxation- an evidence review and cost-effectiveness study
Exploratory analysis suggests that an intervention to increase fuel excise taxation may deliver obesity and physical activity related benefits. Whilst such an intervention has significant potential for cost-effectiveness, potential equity and acceptability impacts would need to be minimised. A better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a range of transport interventions is required in order to achieve more physically acti…
Trial protocol
The trial was retrospectively registered in September, 2017 ( ACTRN12616001276448 ), as communities were selected prior to trial registration; however, participants were recruited after registration. Findings will be disseminated in peer-review journals and community fora
Extending the paradigm
Objective The current short communication aimed to provide a new conceptualisation of the policy drivers of inequities in healthy eating and to make a call to action to begin populating this framework with evidence of actions that can be taken to reduce the inequities in healthy eating. Design The Healthy and Equitable Eating (HE 2 ) Framework derives from a systems-based analytical approach involving expert workshops. Setting Australia. Subjects…
Understanding key worker experiences at an Australian Early Childhood Intervention Service
The delivery of family-centred practice (FCP) within Early Childhood Intervention Services (ECISs) for young children with a disability or development delay conceptualises that children's learning environments, parenting, family and community supports intersect to have the greatest impact on the developing child. The transdisciplinary key worker model is considered a best-practice approach within ECISs whereby staff work collaboratively across di…
Medicine (21 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Population (12 works) · Public health (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Psychological intervention (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)