The Heart Foundation has recommended a limit on red meat intake following new evidence from a review organised by the Sax Institute into the links between red meat, poultry and heart health.
Programs: Evidence Check
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New Evidence Checks on mental health
Online programs and apps can be very effective for treating mild to moderate depression and anxiety in adults, according to one of four new Evidence Check reviews recently added to the Institute’s Evidence Check Library.
New Evidence Checks released on Sax Institute website
The Sax Institute’s contribution to the knowledge base through its popular Evidence Check Library continues to grow, with new Evidence Checks recently published on topics including management of health and wellbeing in the workplace, and another on a promising next-generation cancer treatment. The workplace health Evidence Check, conducted for SafeWork NSW, found strong evidence that … Read more
Evidence Check: Review of effective strategies to promote breastfeeding
The Sax Institute has published an Evidence Check review focusing on interventions to support breastfeeding, which are among the key childbirth and postnatal interventions that have a beneficial impact on maternal and newborn outcomes. Babies who are not breastfed, and women who don’t breastfeed, are at an increased chance of many health risks in both … Read more
Five reasons we should shine a spotlight on Implementation Science
As National Science Week turns the nation’s focus to the vital role that science must play in our future, the media coverage is dominated by images of white lab coats and microscopes. But we thought it timely to hail another area of science having a real-world impact on health policies, programs and systems and, ultimately, … Read more
Journal highlights paper on Sax Institute rapid reviews
A research paper on the way in which health policy agencies intend to use Sax Institute Evidence Check rapid reviews is being highlighted by the journal Evidence & Policy this month. Each month, free access to a selected paper is provided by the journal Evidence & Policy. In the paper chosen this month, Sax Institute researchers examined 74 rapid reviews … Read more
Research silos: break them down to build relationships
Working on a wide range of Sax Institute rapid evidence reviews has been a key part of health economist Professor Chris Doran’s bid to engage policy in the research process. Professor Doran, who is the Research Professor in Health Economics from the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research, School of Health Medical & Applied Sciences … Read more
Patient safety: Why we need less hierarchy and more “geeks”
Reducing patient harm across healthcare systems requires less hierarchy in the medical system, further research, and “more geeks”, global patient safety expert Professor Sir Liam Donaldson told a recent patient safety seminar. The Sydney seminar, co-hosted by Sax Institute, the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University and the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC), saw … Read more
What works to boost policy and program agencies’ use of research?
A Sax Institute review of the effectiveness of new strategies to increase research use in policy and program agencies has outlined four key factors underpinning successful knowledge translation. Ms Gai Moore, Principal Analyst in the Sax Institute’s Knowledge Exchange division, presented new findings on what the evidence shows about what works in knowledge translation to the World … Read more
Rapid reviews for evidence-informed policy: 10 top tips
When it comes to gathering evidence to inform policy, getting the research question right at the start is key to producing a rapid review that can successfully answer a policy question. This piece of advice is one of 10 top tips outlined by Gai Moore, Principal Analyst in the Sax Institute’s Knowledge Exchange division in a recent … Read more