Merlin Donald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 735680 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Merlin Donald |
| PRENOMES | Merlin |
| SOBRENOME | Donald |
| ASSINATURA | DONALD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4962-7627 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Using the Implementation Research Logic Model to implement and evaluate a digital solution to improve timely access to specialist advice
Introduction: With increasing life expectancy & chronic disease prevalence referrals to specialist outpatients in Queensland, Australia, increased 23% between 2004/5 & 2013/14. This growth, and the associated delay in obtaining specialist input, can lead to a deterioration in health, increasing the likelihood of avoidable hospital attendance. For rural remote patients there is further inequity of access with vast distances and time required for t…
A social justice perspective on the delivery of family support
Family support as an approach to working with children, youth, parents, and families is widely practiced across Europe albeit with a range of diverse meanings and interpretations. This paper responds to this ambiguity and provides a conceptual understanding of the delivery of family support in Europe. In doing so it applies a social justice approach critically examining the extent to which Family Support reflects the right of families, children, …
Implementation of an asynchronous general practitioner‐to‐specialist eConsult service (eConsultant) in Australia
Background: With the rise in demand for specialist care across Australia, patients are experiencing excessive delays for specialist input, linked with subsequent deterioration in health. eConsultant is an outpatient substitution model which has been evaluated and implemented extensively internationally. It provides an asynchronous, digital, clinician-to-clinician advice service, giving GPs remote access to specialist support for patient care with…
Cost saving with a GP-led integrated health service delivery model for complex chronic disease
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
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural Memory
The term cultural memory describes a group’s shared experience, skill, and knowledge that is retained and updated through time. Individual memory has its social roots in this system. Although resources are distributed across different minds in the network, they must all obey the standards of thought and behavior imposed by belonging to it. As such, no single person can carry the burden of the system alone and thus has only modest possibilities of…
Making sense of change
BACKGROUND: Health system reform is directed towards better management of diabetes. However, change can be difficult, and patients' perspectives are a key aspect of implementing change. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated patients' perceptions and experiences of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), self-care and engagement with GP-led integrated diabetes care. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews were conducted with purposively selected patients with T2DM following …
Association between patient activation and patient‐assessed quality of care in type 2 diabetes
BACKGROUND: Previous research using cross-sectional data has shown a positive relationship between patient activation and quality of care. The quantitative relationships in the same patients over time, however, remain undefined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between changes in activation over time and patient-assessed quality of chronic illness care. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. PARTICIPANTS: The study used data reported annually fr…
A qualitative follow-up study of diabetes patients’ appraisal of an integrated diabetes service in primary care
As the prevalence of type 2 diabetes continues to escalate, health system reform is seeking better patient outcomes through new models of care that aim to provide the most appropriate care when needed. Patients' experiences of service innovations can shed light on the successes and challenges of implementing change. This paper explores patients' views of a new model of integrated care for patients with type 2 diabetes. A mixed-methods, randomised…
The impact of concordant and discordant comorbidities on patient‐assessed quality of diabetes care
OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of concordant and discordant comorbidities on patients' assessments of providers' adherence to diabetes-specific care guidelines and quality of chronic illness care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A population-based survey of 3761 adults with type 2 diabetes, living in Queensland, Australia was conducted in 2008. Based on self-reports, participants were grouped into four mutually exclusive comorbid categories: none,…
An Evolutionary Approach to Culture
An Evolutionary Approach to Culture
Living with diabetes
The data collected by the Living With Diabetes Study provides a good representation of Australians with diabetes to follow over time in order to better understand the natural course of the illness. The study has potential to further illuminate, and give a comprehensive picture of the psychosocial implications of living with diabetes. Data collection is ongoing
Evaluation of a Suicide Prevention Training Program for Mental Health Services Staff
The complex origins of religion
The Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life 19 (ADDQoL)
Mental health promotion and non-profit health organisations
Health related non-profit organisations (NPOs) provide a potentially important but largely untapped role in mental health promotion in communities. This paper reports on a study investigating the activities and contributions made by NPOs to mental health and well-being. One hundred and eight NPOs based in the metropolitan area of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, participated in a survey exploring agency activities that contribute to promoting men…
Is a Picture Really Worth a 1,000 Words
Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past. By David J. Staley
Considerations in the Design of a Mixed-Method Cluster Evaluation of a Community Programme for 'At-Risk' Young People
This article discusses the design of a comprehensive evaluation of a community development programme for young people 'at-risk' of self-harming behaviour. It outlines considerations in the design of the evaluation and focuses on the complexities and difficulties associated with the evaluation of a community development programme. The challenge was to fulfil the needs of the funding body for a broad, outcome-focused evaluation while remaining clos…
Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages
This chapter assumes that the evolution of language, like all other aspects of life, must have been subject to the laws of natural selection, and that its emergence must therefore have been a continuous process. The term ‘protolanguage’ has been used as a label for the earliest form that ‘true’ language must have taken. A protolanguage is thus a prototype, an approximation of the finished product that contains some of the essential features of la…
Gender differences associated with young people's emotional reactions to sexual intercourse
The Fourth Discontinuity
Origins of the Modern Mind
Gender differences associated with young people's emotional reactions to sexual intercourse
The complex origins of religion
A qualitative follow-up study of diabetes patients’ appraisal of an integrated diabetes service in primary care
As the prevalence of type 2 diabetes continues to escalate, health system reform is seeking better patient outcomes through new models of care that aim to provide the most appropriate care when needed. Patients' experiences of service innovations can shed light on the successes and challenges of implementing change. This paper explores patients' views of a new model of integrated care for patients with type 2 diabetes. A mixed-methods, randomised…
Evaluation of a Suicide Prevention Training Program for Mental Health Services Staff
Mental health promotion and non-profit health organisations
Health related non-profit organisations (NPOs) provide a potentially important but largely untapped role in mental health promotion in communities. This paper reports on a study investigating the activities and contributions made by NPOs to mental health and well-being. One hundred and eight NPOs based in the metropolitan area of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, participated in a survey exploring agency activities that contribute to promoting men…
Considerations in the Design of a Mixed-Method Cluster Evaluation of a Community Programme for 'At-Risk' Young People
This article discusses the design of a comprehensive evaluation of a community development programme for young people 'at-risk' of self-harming behaviour. It outlines considerations in the design of the evaluation and focuses on the complexities and difficulties associated with the evaluation of a community development programme. The challenge was to fulfil the needs of the funding body for a broad, outcome-focused evaluation while remaining clos…
Origins of the Modern Mind
The Fourth Discontinuity
Gender differences associated with young people's emotional reactions to sexual intercourse
Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages
This chapter assumes that the evolution of language, like all other aspects of life, must have been subject to the laws of natural selection, and that its emergence must therefore have been a continuous process. The term ‘protolanguage’ has been used as a label for the earliest form that ‘true’ language must have taken. A protolanguage is thus a prototype, an approximation of the finished product that contains some of the essential features of la…
Considerations in the Design of a Mixed-Method Cluster Evaluation of a Community Programme for 'At-Risk' Young People
This article discusses the design of a comprehensive evaluation of a community development programme for young people 'at-risk' of self-harming behaviour. It outlines considerations in the design of the evaluation and focuses on the complexities and difficulties associated with the evaluation of a community development programme. The challenge was to fulfil the needs of the funding body for a broad, outcome-focused evaluation while remaining clos…
Is a Picture Really Worth a 1,000 Words
Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past. By David J. Staley
Mental health promotion and non-profit health organisations
Health related non-profit organisations (NPOs) provide a potentially important but largely untapped role in mental health promotion in communities. This paper reports on a study investigating the activities and contributions made by NPOs to mental health and well-being. One hundred and eight NPOs based in the metropolitan area of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, participated in a survey exploring agency activities that contribute to promoting men…
The Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life 19 (ADDQoL)
An Evolutionary Approach to Culture
An Evolutionary Approach to Culture
Living with diabetes
The data collected by the Living With Diabetes Study provides a good representation of Australians with diabetes to follow over time in order to better understand the natural course of the illness. The study has potential to further illuminate, and give a comprehensive picture of the psychosocial implications of living with diabetes. Data collection is ongoing
Evaluation of a Suicide Prevention Training Program for Mental Health Services Staff
The complex origins of religion
The impact of concordant and discordant comorbidities on patient‐assessed quality of diabetes care
OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of concordant and discordant comorbidities on patients' assessments of providers' adherence to diabetes-specific care guidelines and quality of chronic illness care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A population-based survey of 3761 adults with type 2 diabetes, living in Queensland, Australia was conducted in 2008. Based on self-reports, participants were grouped into four mutually exclusive comorbid categories: none,…
Making sense of change
BACKGROUND: Health system reform is directed towards better management of diabetes. However, change can be difficult, and patients' perspectives are a key aspect of implementing change. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated patients' perceptions and experiences of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), self-care and engagement with GP-led integrated diabetes care. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews were conducted with purposively selected patients with T2DM following …
Association between patient activation and patient‐assessed quality of care in type 2 diabetes
BACKGROUND: Previous research using cross-sectional data has shown a positive relationship between patient activation and quality of care. The quantitative relationships in the same patients over time, however, remain undefined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between changes in activation over time and patient-assessed quality of chronic illness care. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. PARTICIPANTS: The study used data reported annually fr…
A qualitative follow-up study of diabetes patients’ appraisal of an integrated diabetes service in primary care
As the prevalence of type 2 diabetes continues to escalate, health system reform is seeking better patient outcomes through new models of care that aim to provide the most appropriate care when needed. Patients' experiences of service innovations can shed light on the successes and challenges of implementing change. This paper explores patients' views of a new model of integrated care for patients with type 2 diabetes. A mixed-methods, randomised…
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Cultural Memory
The term cultural memory describes a group’s shared experience, skill, and knowledge that is retained and updated through time. Individual memory has its social roots in this system. Although resources are distributed across different minds in the network, they must all obey the standards of thought and behavior imposed by belonging to it. As such, no single person can carry the burden of the system alone and thus has only modest possibilities of…
Cost saving with a GP-led integrated health service delivery model for complex chronic disease
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
Implementation of an asynchronous general practitioner‐to‐specialist eConsult service (eConsultant) in Australia
Background: With the rise in demand for specialist care across Australia, patients are experiencing excessive delays for specialist input, linked with subsequent deterioration in health. eConsultant is an outpatient substitution model which has been evaluated and implemented extensively internationally. It provides an asynchronous, digital, clinician-to-clinician advice service, giving GPs remote access to specialist support for patient care with…
A social justice perspective on the delivery of family support
Family support as an approach to working with children, youth, parents, and families is widely practiced across Europe albeit with a range of diverse meanings and interpretations. This paper responds to this ambiguity and provides a conceptual understanding of the delivery of family support in Europe. In doing so it applies a social justice approach critically examining the extent to which Family Support reflects the right of families, children, …
Using the Implementation Research Logic Model to implement and evaluate a digital solution to improve timely access to specialist advice
Introduction: With increasing life expectancy & chronic disease prevalence referrals to specialist outpatients in Queensland, Australia, increased 23% between 2004/5 & 2013/14. This growth, and the associated delay in obtaining specialist input, can lead to a deterioration in health, increasing the likelihood of avoidable hospital attendance. For rural remote patients there is further inequity of access with vast distances and time required for t…
Medicine (12 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Nursing (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (6 obras) · Diabetes Management and Education (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Diabetes mellitus (4 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras)