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General Practice and other primary health care services are recognised as essential in reducing hepatitis B-related mortality in Australia.
The Third National Hepatitis B Strategy 2018-2022 identifies general practice as a “priority setting” for delivering education, prevention, treatment and care services”, with key elements for the transition of hepatitis B clinical management from specialist to primary care yet to be described.
Several challenges to the general practice response to hepatitis B are described, including poor knowledge of hepatitis B, lack of awareness of clinical management processes, poor specialist referral processes and inadequate financial support for hepatitis B management.
In spite of these concerns and with the escalating mortality resulting from hepatitis B-related liver cancer, its management within primary care services is supported. This research investigates general practice responses to hepatitis B by aiming to identify systematic enablers to the clinical management of people with hepatitis B within these settings.
June 2020
Cofunded between Burnet Institute and Victorian Cancer Council
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Senior Research Officer
To create and translate knowledge into better health, so no-one is left behind.
85 Commercial Road, Melbourne
VIC, 3004, Australia
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