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David Stewart Briggs

David Stewart Briggs
Naresuan UniversityMahidol University Thailand CPCE HK Poly U UNE

Doctor of Public Health

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Education
January 2006 - March 2009
University of New England
Field of study
  • Health systems management

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Publications (75)
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The concept of ‘Smart Health Communities’ (SHC) arises in the context of challenges to both national health systems and global contexts. Most nation states and health systems are facing the challenge of ageing populations, increased chronic disease burdens for those populations, a current pandemic of COVID-19, origins and variable utility of predom...
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It is a privilege to be asked to present this Oration. Like many similar events, it pays tribute to a well-respected, revered, and past leader in our profession, in education, economics and life in general. Someone, who most of us would not have known personally nor about his involvement in the health system, particularly, SHAPE.
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Book Chapter of The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community Edited By Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong ISBN 9780367634193 September 6, 2021 by Routledge 376 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
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Preamble It is a privilege to be asked to present this Oration. Like many similar events, it pays tribute to a well-respected, revered, and past leader in our profession, in education, economics and life in general. Someone, who most of us would not have known personally nor about his involvement in SHAPE. As we near the passing of a generation of...
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Objective This study examined whether the management competency framework for health service managers developed in the Victorian healthcare context is applicable to managers in other Australian states. Methods An online questionnaire survey of senior and middle-level health service managers in both community health services and hospitals was conduc...
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The Covid-19 pandemic is still current but has been particularly well addressed, so far, in the Australian context. This article presents an analysis of management practice to describe the experience of one Primary Health Network (PHN) and its approach and response to the pandemic within its geographical region in accordance with Federal government...
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‘Going forward, going back: Covid pandemic where to from here? It is a collaborative effort that raises concerns and perceptions based on events predominantly but not entirely Australian and the events traversed continue to ‘be in play’ as we write. Some authors also to some extent editorialise in their articles, particularly in contrasting between...
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The Covid-19 pandemic is still current but has been particularly well addressed, so far, in the Australian context. This article presents an analysis of management practice to describe the experience of one Primary Health Network (PHN) and its approach and response to the pandemic within its geographical region in accordance with Federal government...
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Health Development has been a part of the health system lexicon for a considerable period and had currency particularly in the aid context to those countries attempting to improve the health status of their populations. The language had changed to 'health reform' in the first decade where in the period to 2010 the focus of government was often on c...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the establishment of Primary Health Network (PHN) in Australia and its utility in commissioning Primary Health Care (PHC) services. Design/methodology/approach This study is an analysis of management practice about the establishment and development of a PHN as a case study over the three-year period....
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Human resource management in a global context recognizes that the health care sector is essentially a human enterprise. The connection between people engaging in health work has also been recognized as integral to the professionally dominant roles within the sector. In this chapter, human resource principles and effective HR management practices ar...
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Background Competent managers are essential to the productivity of organisations and the sustainability of health systems. Effective workforce development strategies sensitive to the current competency development needs of health service managers (HSMs) are required. Purpose To conduct a 360° assessment of the competence of Australian HSMs to iden...
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Overview of this chapter In this chapter we discuss writing for publication, with a focus on practical advice to clearly define writing as a reflexive learning process and a means of adding to the health care knowledge base. The chapter includes key messages about writing style, different types of writing and publication processes, as well as refer...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe progress in an across sectorial approach to primary health care at the district health service (DHS) level in Thailand in response to recent innovative national public policy directions which have been enshrined in constitutional doctrine and publicly endorsed by the Prime Minister. This paper descr...
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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.com Emerald is a glo...
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Commentary and published research on the value of healthcare has become more evident in recent times. There has been a noticeable shift from the focus on efficiency of health systems and practice to a greater focus on what effectively works, or more so, what doesn’t work. Health delivery systems struggle with increased demand on existing services a...
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This article describes the Australian Health care system which is one of the best performing health systems across the range of OECD countries. The system has experienced continuous health reform focused on structure and restructure. Demand and utilization of services are high while health expenditure has risen faster than either population growth...
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It concludes by proposing a way forward that acknowledges that contemporary health reform is shifting the paradigm of healthcare delivery in a way that requires the dominant view of health management to be challenged. This might be achieved by the use of a critical lens on the language of management, a focus on a grounded approach about what manage...
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Health reform has been a constant feature of most health systems for a number of decades and has often focused on structural change. The lexicon of health reform and health management has also become intertwined with managers reporting that reform has become a constant and that rather than influencing that change they are in fact influenced by it a...
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P Tejativaddhana, DS Briggs, R Thonglor healthcare, prevention and evidence-based practice. It also requires an understanding of how distributed networks of practice (DNOP) provide the potential for researchers, practitioners and other agencies and communities to collaborate, learn and improve healthcare across geographic, jurisdictional and organi...
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In this Editorial I would like to traverse the important concept of gaining wisdom as a health manager. The challenges of managing complex systems, sometimes in the face of adverse contexts, cannot be easily incorporated within the normative, rational view of management practice or theory.
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There has been a lot of commentary recently about what appear to be one-off attempts at health reform that are expenditure reducing or restraining driven initiatives, mostly in the primary healthcare sector. The commentary is couched in terms of over-utilisation and unrestrained costs. This reform is predominantly about primary healthcare (PHC), mo...
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9: 3 In the last editorial I paused to comment on the fact that Australia seemed to lack an overarching vision for health-care following the then recent publication of the Com-mission of Audit Report. [1] Subsequent to that, the debate has continued about the wisdom or otherwise of the proposed co-payment for GP visits and the move to Primary Healt...
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The implementation of the national health reforms has seen the introduction of the word ‘local’ into the reform agenda. It is used in the name of State jurisdictions acute care providers and in the national primary health care framework organisations currently described as Medicare Locals. Why is this so? Why has ‘local’ become central to the...
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In 2001, the universal health coverage policy was adopted by Thailand with primary healthcare (PHC) as the major focus of the policy. In order to understand the structural and institutional factors affecting the implementation of PHC in rural Thailand, a qualitative study, utilising individual interviews with national and provincial policy decision...
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This qualitative study was undertaken with a diverse sample of Australian health managers to examine their perceptions regarding the health system and to understand how they learned to become health managers. The findings showed that they viewed the health system as one of constant change, mostly non-adaptive, and a system of parts controlled by b...
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This qualitative study was undertaken with a diverse sample of Australian health managers to examine their perceptions regarding the health system and to understand how they learned to become health managers. The findings showed that they viewed the health system as one of constant change, mostly non-adaptive, and a system of parts controlled by bu...
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This qualitative study was undertaken with a diverse sample of Australian health managers to examine their perceptions regarding the health system and to understand how they learned to become health managers. The findings showed that they viewed the health system as one of constant change, mostly non-adaptive, and a system of parts controlled by bu...
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There is no widespread agreement as to a definitive way to describe, let alone define the health manager’s role and required capabilities. This is despite the fact that they have unique roles and are engaged in complex, professionally dominated, politically driven system experiencing constant change. The role is highly variable and management roles...
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Recent research focused on the workplace as the context for national health promotion and wellness programs, [1] and reported in the public media as 'Too many managers lead the way on poor health' . [2] It readily raised the question in the mind of this author about how and where health managers might fit in any examination of their wellness as an...
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In 2001, Thailand adopted the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy. This policy focuses on primary health care (PHC), with the aim of reforming the Thai health system to provide health services to all, regardless of a person's ability to pay. The community hospital director (CHD) is the middle manager of the provincial health system and the leade...
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There have been recent calls for a renewed worldwide focus on primary health care. The Thai-Australian Health Alliance addresses this call by developing health care management capability in primary health care professionals in rural Thailand. This paper describes the history and current activities of the Thai-Australian Health Alliance and its appr...
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BACKGROUND: Collaborations between organisations from developed and developing nations in the Asia Pacific region have secured partnerships in education, training, research and professional development that target enhancement of capacity building in health management. Although 'Declarations' supporting various social, political, economic and health...
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Title: Collaborative capacity building in applied health systems research Authors: David Briggs1, 2, Mary Cruickshank1, 3, Steven Campbell1, K Fisher1 John Fraser1, 4 and Prawit Taytiwat 1, 5 Background Five years of sustained collaboration between a Thai and an Australian university known as the Thai–Australian Alliance, has included participat...
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In 2006, the Thai National Health Security Office and the Ministry of Public Health, through the Nakhonratchasima Provincial Health Office in Thailand, asked the Thai-Australian Health Alliance to identify competencies and skills for a health management curriculum for health professionals working in primary healthcare in rural Thailand. The study w...
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Purpose: This article presents a Declaration by the Society for Health Administration in Education Pro- grams (SHAPE), to promote public debate on the reform of the organisation and management of health services. Methodology/Approach: The Declaration was developed from the SHAPE 2008 Symposium and was primarily based on a research study conducted b...
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Background. This paper reflects on the early and successful implementation of an accreditation system for residential care for elderly people in Hong Kong in terms of the Australian aged care accreditation experience.
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Aim: To describe early stages in the development of a cross-cultural strategic alliance known as the 'Thai- Australian Health Alliance'. The aim of the alliance is to improve rural medical workforce recruitment, retention, education and training. Early stage development focuses on achieving a sustainable set of relationships between participating o...
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This paper explores the development, implementation and evaluation of the Australian Aboriginal trainee health service management program in New South Wales. In 1997, the two-year pilot program commenced with ten trainees. The program consisted of a combination of work-based placements, formal university education and Australian College of Health S...
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Background: Knowledge translation is a global issue. There have been limited studies to assess the impact of cross-cultural exchanges in health service management in developing countries. Aim: To determine the impact (on rural Thailand health services) of a Thai-Australian health service management and medical education educational study tour condu...
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"SHAPE is ideally positioned to lead the call for informed public debate on health service reform for sustainable improvements in service delivery. Our members have the necessary expertise, and professional knowledge and experience of the health care system. We are strongly positioned to provide sound leadership and advice to the NHHRC and Governme...

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