Welcome to Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit (FHBHRU).
A centre for research, evaluation and development of chronic condition management. This includes coordinated care, care planning, behavioural change and self-management. We specialise in the education and training of health professionals and consumers.
The Flinders Human Behaviour & Health Research Unit is situated in the southern part of Adelaide in the grounds of Flinders Medical Centre (the teaching hospital of Flinders University) in South Australia. The Unit is part of the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University.
Exciting new workshops for prevention of chronic conditions
Due to numerious requests we are offering in 2010 a new, exciting & innovative approach that that enables health professionals to better support people with risk factors such as smoking, poor nutrition, alcohol misuse, physical inactivity and stress (SNAPS). These new skills and tools will enable workers to undertake a structured process that allows for assessment of self-management behaviours, collaborative identification of problems and goal setting leading to an individualised Action Plan. The process incorporates measurement of client progress and outcomes.
Read more about the workshops and how to enrol...
A New Resource! Capabilities for supporting prevention and Chronic Condition Self-Management
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, through the Australian Better Health Initiative (ABHI), determined that education and training of the existing and future health workforce was a key element in assisting patients to better manage their chronic conditions. To begin to build an understanding of what this education and training might entail, two separate but related projects were conducted. These projects aimed to (a) develop a curriculum framework for self-management support education of the future workforce, and (b) determine the skills required for prevention and self-management support of chronic conditions by the current PHC workforce.
NOW AVAILABLE!
PDF copy available free of charge: Capabilities for Supporting Prevention and Chronic Condition Self-Management: A Resource for Educators of Primary Health Care Professionals.
PDF available free of charge: Case Study
To order the booklet and CD resource download (cost $5 p&h) order form
READ ABOUT WHAT'S NEW AT FHBHRU
Name change! ‘The Flinders Model’ now the ‘The Flinders Program’
FHBHRU’s vision:
FHBHRU will be a leading national and international Centre for inter-professional education, research, consultancy and clinical service provision for the improvement of health outcomes through health behaviour change.
FHBHRU’s mission:
By 2010 FHBHRU will be a national and international leader in assisting people to live well and live longer through improved health behaviours by:
- Developing prevention, early intervention and self- management approaches
- Education of health service consumers
- Health professional undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational education
- Research and consultancy
- Clinical service provision
- Policy development
- System improvement