Catherine Hurley

Catherine Hurley
Catherine Hurley
Senior Research Officer
BA, BSoc Admin, Grad Cert PHC (Research and Evaluation)
T: +61 08 7221 8478
E: catherine.hurley@flinders.edu.au


Research Interests

  • Early Childhood
  • Health services evaluation
  • Comprehensive Primary Health Care
  • Collaboration and partnerships research

Professional interests

  • Member, Australasian Evaluation Society

Refereed Papers

Hurley, C; Kalucy, E & Battersby, M (2002) "General Practitioners' Collaboration with Service Coordinators: What Makes it Work? Lessons from the SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care Trial." Australian Journal of Primary Health , Vol. 8, No.1 p45–51.

Hurley, C ; van Eyk, H & Baum, F (2002) "Insider knowledge and Outsider objectivity: the benefits and risks of combined evaluator roles in a study of health care reform." Evaluation Journal of Australasia . Vol. 2, No. 2 p60–68

Hurley, C ; Baum, F & van Eyk, H (2004) "Designing Better Healthcare in the South- a case study of unsuccessful transformational change in public sector health service reform." Australian Journal of Public Administration , Vol. 63, No. 2, p31-41

Baum, F. van Eyk, H. & Hurley, C . (2005) Tension, Conflict and Uncertainty: key features of reform processes from an Australian case study of health services" Australian Journal of Primary Health . Vol 12 (2) p24-33

Jolley, G., Lawless, A., Baum, F., Hurley, C & Fry, D (2007) " Building an evidence base for community health: a systematic review of program evaluations." Australian Health Review Vol. 31 (4) p603-610

Jolley, G., Lawless, A., & Hurley , C. (2008) "Framework and tools for planning and evaluating community participation, collaborative partnership and equity in health promotion" Health Promotion Journal of Australia Vol 19 (2) p152-157

Conference Papers and Presentations

Presentation of a workshop entitled "Developing Outcome Measures for Social Work in a Home Based Service" at the 24 th National Conference of the Australian Association of Social Workers, September, 1997.

Co-author on poster at General Practice Evaluation Program conference: Kalucy, E; Beacham, B and Hurley, C "Effective Partnerships: Reflections from Evaluating SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care Trial."

Co-author on poster at Public Health Association of Australia Conference, September, 2001. Van Eyk, H; Baum, F & Hurley, C "Evaluating Health Care Reform, an Iterative Approach."

Conference paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society Conference, October, 2001: Hurley, C "A process evaluation of a group planning for human service integration– a case study."

Conference Paper presented at the 2003 Australasian Evaluation conference, Auckland , New Zealand : Hurley, C " Stakeholder expectations and the search for quality: the evaluators' juggling act?"

Baum, F. Jolley, G . Hurley, C ., Fry, D. and Kyriacou, M. Systematic Review of Qualitative Evaluations: an example from Community Health Services in South Australia . The 18 th World Conference of Health Promotion & Health Education, 26-30 th April 2004, Melbourne

Conference Paper presented at the General Practice and Primary Health Care Conference, Brisbane, June 2004 : Hurley, C ; Rankine, G, Hicks, K & Cameron, S: "Process and Outcomes of a Survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members to promote access and equity."

Conference Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society Conference, Adelaide, October 2004: Hurley, C & Rankine, G "Evaluation in Black and White: two perspectives on the evaluation of an Aboriginal Access and Equity project in the inner south of Adelaide"

Jolley, G . Baum, F. Hurley, C ., Fry, D. and Kyriacou, M. Systematic Review of Evaluations conducted in Adelaide Community Health Services. Diverse Voices in Evaluation, Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, 13 th to 15 th October 2004, Adelaide .

Conference Paper presented at the International Society for Equity in Health conference, Adelaide , October, 2006: Hurley, C ., Barnard, H., & Udell, T., "The Playford Food Alliance: a partnership for food security."

Conference Paper presented at the International Society for Equity in Health conference, Adelaide , October, 2006: Lawless, A., Jolley, G., Hurley, C . & Udell, T: Measuring Equity in Community Health: Research to Practice

Lawless A, Jolley G , Hurley C (2006) Measuring Equity In Community Health- Research To Practice Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health, Adelaide

Workshop presented at the Australian Health Promotion Association conference in Adelaide , May 2007 : Jolley, G. Lawless, A. & Hurley, C. , "Evaluation Toolkits for equity, consumer participation and collaborative partnerships."

Jolley, G . Baum, F. Lawless, A and Hurley, C. The Politics of Health Reform: A case study from South Australia . 17 th National Conference of the Australian Health Promotion Association, 1 st -4 th May 2007, Adelaide

Conference Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society Conference in Melbourne , September 2007 Hurley, C., Lawless, A., & Biedrzycki, K., "Identifying the elephant in the room: evaluation as a circuit breaker in a conflicted context."

Conference Paper presented at the Revitalising Health for All: Learning from Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) Experiences. First International Meeting - Johannesburg , South Africa , 28th November – 1st December 2007

Hurley, C & Baum F "Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Australasia , a narrative review of the literature."

Conference paper presented at the General Practice and Primary Health Care Research conference, Hobart, June, 2008: Hurley, C & Baum, F "Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Australia: findings from a narrative review of the literature."

Reports

Lead Author of Thematic Reports 2 (Response of Service Providers) and 3 (Response of the Wider System) of the Evaluation of the SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care Trial, March 2000

Co–author of report Primary Health Care and General Practice: The way ahead . National Information Service, Department of General Practice, Flinders University of SA, May 2001

Paper entitled "SA HealthPlus– Engaging Service Providers in Coordinated Care" published in The Australian Coordinated Care Trials: Recollections of an Evaluation.

Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Canberra , 2002.

Guest Editor for Primary Health Care Research and Information Service publication Journal Watch "Teamwork in Primary Care.", April, 2003

Contributor to Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee Report "Career Decision Making by Doctors in Vocational Training, 2002".

Jolley, G. Baum, F., Hurley, C., & Fry, D. (2004) What Works? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for the Effectiveness of Community Health in Adelaide , Adelaide South Australian Community Health Research Unit.

Contributor to Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee Report "The general practice workforce in Australia : supply and requirements to 2013" August 2005.

Baum, F., Jolley, G., Hurley, C ., Lawless, A & Udell, T.(2006), Governance Change in the southern metropolitan Adelaide health region: implications for Primary Health Care . Adelaide , South Australian Community Health Research Unit, Flinders University

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