Arc Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (Ce17) - McDonald (Arc)

The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China

Y Si, G Chen, Z Zhou, W Yip, X Chen

2025-09-01

Despite growing evidence of gender disparities in healthcare utilization and health outcomes, there is a lack of understanding of ..

Intrinsic Capacity Across 15 Countries in the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe

M Chen, K Hanewald, Y Si, Y Gu, JR Beard

2025-05-01

IMPORTANCE Intrinsic capacity (IC) is a core component of the World Health Organization’s healthy aging framework. Yet, despite mu..

Cohort trends in intrinsic capacity in England and China

JR Beard, K Hanewald, Y Si, J Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, D Moreno-Agostino

2025-01-01

To understand how the health of older adults today compares to that of previous generations, we estimated intrinsic capacity and s..

Health-Poverty Inequality in Australia from 2001 to 2018

D Jun, M Sutton

2024-12-01

While established measures gauge poverty across diverse aspects of life, a definitive metric for health poverty in Australia remai..

Worldwide cohort studies to support healthy ageing research: data availabilities and gaps

S Khalatbari-Soltani, Y Si, M Dominguez, T Scott, FM Blyth

2024-04-01

Background: Population ageing is a transforming demographic force. To support evidence-based efforts for promoting healthy ageing,..

Care arrangements of older persons in rural Indonesia: a study of six villages

MU Absor, P McDonald, A Utomo, B Houle

2024-01-01

This study explores the provision of care for older persons in rural areas of ageing Indonesia. Using data from Ageing in Rural In..

Economic Disadvantage Among Older People in Rural Indonesia: Risk and Protective Factors

MU Absor, P McDonald, A Utomo

2023-12-01

Little research attention has been given to investigative inequalities in the economic wellbeing of older persons in rural Indones..

Study protocol for development and validation of a single tool to assess risks of stroke, diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction and dementia: DemNCD-Risk

S Kootar, MH Huque, KM Kiely, CS Anderson, L Jorm, M Kivipelto, NT Lautenschlager, F Matthews, JE Shaw, RA Whitmer, R Peters, KJ Anstey

2023-09-22

Introduction Current efforts to reduce dementia focus on prevention and risk reduction by targeting modifiable risk factors. As de..

Pain and its interference with daily living in relation to cancer: a comparative population-based study of 16,053 cancer survivors and 106,345 people without cancer

Grace Joshy, Saman Khalatbari-Soltani, Kay Soga, Phyllis Butow, Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell, Bogda Koczwara, Nicole M Rankin, Sinan Brown, Marianne Weber, Carolyn Mazariego, Paul Grogan, John Stubbs, Stefan Thottunkal, Karen Canfell, Fiona M Blyth, Emily Banks

2023-09-13

BACKGROUND: Pain is a common, debilitating, and feared symptom, including among cancer survivors. However, large-scale population-..

Life-course inequalities in intrinsic capacity and healthy ageing, China

Y Si, K Hanewald, S Chen, B Li, H Bateman, JR Beard

2023-05-01

Objective To investigate the contribution of early-life factors on intrinsic capacity of Chinese adults older than 45 years. Metho..

Quantifying the financial impact of overuse in primary care in China: A standardised patient study

Y Si, H Bateman, S Chen, K Hanewald, B Li, M Su, Z Zhou

2023-03-01

Overuse of health care is a potential factor in explaining the rapid increase in health care expenditure in many countries; howeve..

Causal and Associational Language in Observational Health Research: A Systematic Evaluation

NA Haber, SE Wieten, JM Rohrer, OA Arah, PWG Tennant, EA Stuart, EJ Murray, S Pilleron, ST Lam, E Riederer, SJ Howcutt, AE Simmons, C Leyrat, P Schoenegger, A Booman, MS Kang Dufour, AL O’Donoghue, R Baglini, S Do, M De La Rosa Takashima

2022-12-01

We estimated the degree to which language used in the high-profile medical/public health/epidemiology literature implied causality..

Diagnostic accuracy of linked administrative data for dementia diagnosis in community-dwelling older men in Australia

EPF Chow, B Hsu, LM Waite, FM Blyth, DJ Handelsman, DG Le Couteur, V Naganathan, FF Stanaway

2022-12-01

Background: Routinely collected health administrative data can be used to estimate the prevalence or incidence of dementia at a po..

Nursing Home Competition, Prices, and Quality: A Scoping Review and Policy Lessons

O Yang, J Yong, A Scott

2022-09-01

Background and Objectives: In recent years, countries have increasingly relied on markets to improve efficiency, contain costs, an..

The comparative mortality of an elite group in the long run of history: an observational analysis of politicians from 11 countries

PM Clarke, A Tran-Duy, LSJ Roope, JA Stiles, AG Barnett

2022-09-01

This study aims to compare the mortality rate and life expectancy of politicians with those of the age and gender-matched general ..

Relative contribution of trends in myocardial infarction event rates and case fatality to declines in mortality: an international comparative study of 1·95 million events in 80·4 million people in four countries

X Camacho, L Nedkoff, FL Wright, N Nghiem, E Buajitti, R Goldacre, LC Rosella, O Seminog, EJ Tan, A Hayes, A Hayen, N Wilson, T Blakely, P Clarke

2022-03-01

Background: Myocardial infarction mortality has declined since the 1970s, but contemporary drivers of this trend remain unexplaine..

Intergenerational inequality and the intergenerational state

JM Rice, JB Temple, PF McDonald

2021-12-01

Inequality between generations is a central feature of human societies. Moreover, within human societies many institutions have de..

Ownership, quality and prices of nursing homes in Australia: Why greater private sector participation did not improve performance

J Yong, O Yang, Y Zhang, A Scott

2021-11-01

Objective: This study examines whether greater private-sector participation in aged care can lead to better outcomes by comparing ..

Estimating risk factor progression equations for the UKPDS Outcomes Model 2 (UKPDS 90)

J Leal, M Alva, V Gregory, A Hayes, B Mihaylova, AM Gray, RR Holman, P Clarke

2021-10-01

Objectives: To estimate 13 equations that predict clinically plausible risk factor time paths to inform the United Kingdom Prospec..

Impact of comorbid conditions on healthcare expenditure and work-related outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

M Vu, N Carvalho, PM Clarke, R Buchbinder, A Tran-Duy

2021-08-01

Objective. To evaluate the effect of comorbid conditions on direct healthcare expenditure and work-related outcomes in patients wi..

Population norms for quality adjusted life years for the United States of America, China, the United Kingdom and Australia

AJ Palmer, JA Campbell, B de Graaff, N Devlin, H Ahmad, PM Clarke, M Chen, L Si

2021-08-01

Health economics uses quality adjusted life years (QALYs) to help healthcare decision makers. However, unlike life expectancy for ..

Barriers to health care reported by carers of older Australians: New evidence from the 2018 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers

J Temple, F Batchelor, K Hwang, J Stiles, L Engel

2021-06-01

Carers play an important role in assisting older care recipients with their daily lives and attending to their health care. Yet re..

Self-rated health scores predict mortality among people with type 2 diabetes differently across three different country groupings: findings from the ADVANCE and ADVANCE-ON trials

X Hua, TWC Lung, M Woodward, JA Salomon, P Hamet, SB Harrap, G Mancia, N Poulter, J Chalmers, PM Clarke

2020-08-01

Aims: To explore whether there is a different strength of association between self-rated health and all-cause mortality in people ..

Exploring the Impact of Quality of Life on Survival: A Case Study in Total Knee Replacement Surgery

M Tew, K Dalziel, M Dowsey, PF Choong, P Clarke

2020-04-01

Background. There is growing evidence that quality of life (QoL) has a strong association with mortality. However, incorporation o..

A patient-level model to estimate lifetime health outcomes of patients with type 1 diabetes

An Tran-Duy, Josh Knight, Andrew Palmer, Dennis Petrie, Tom Lung, William Herman, Bjorn Eliasson, Ann-Marie Svensson, Philip Clarke

2020-01-01

OBJECTIVE: To develop a patient-level simulation model for predicting lifetime health outcomes of patients with type 1 diabetes an..

Defining and measuring health poverty

P Clarke, G Erreygers

2020-01-01

Unlike other aspects of welfare (e.g. income), health has been relatively neglected when it comes to defining and measuring aspect..

The Surgeon's Role in the Opioid Crisis: A Narrative Review and Call to Action

Cade Shadbolt, J Haxby Abbott, Ximena Camacho, Philip Clarke, L Stefan Lohmander, Tim Spelman, Eric C Sun, Jonas B Thorlund, Yuting Zhang, Michelle M Dowsey, Peter FM Choong

2020-01-01

Over the past two decades, there has been a sharp rise in the use of prescription opioids. In several countries, most notably the ..

Preventive Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disease: A Modelling Study Considering Health Gain, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness when Stratifying by Absolute Risk

N Nghiem, J Knight, A Mizdrak, T Blakely, N Wilson

2019-12-01

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death internationally. We aimed to model the impact of CVD preventive double ..

Opioid use prior to elective surgery is strongly associated with persistent use following surgery: an analysis of 14 354 Medicare patients

M Catchpool, J Knight, JT Young, P Clarke, MJ Barrington, PFM Choong, MM Dowsey

2019-11-01

Background: Persistent opioid use following total joint replacement (TJR) surgery is common; however, the association between pre-..

The impact of Medicare part D on income-related inequality in pharmaceutical expenditure

N Carvalho, D Petrie, L Chen, JA Salomon, P Clarke

2019-04-16

Background: Income-related inequality measures such as the concentration index are often used to describe the unequal distribution..

Health system costs for individual and comorbid noncommunicable diseases: An analysis of publicly funded health events from New Zealand

Tony Blakely, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, June Atkinson, Joseph Dieleman, Philip Clarke

2019-01-01

Background There is little systematic assessment of how total health expenditure is distributed across diseases and comorbidities...

Longevity of outstanding sporting achievers: Mind versus muscle

A Tran-Duy, DC Smerdon, PM Clarke

2018-05-01

Background While there is strong evidence showing the survival advantage of elite athletes, much less is known about those engaged..