Mary O'Loughlin ~ Lecturer, Public Health
College of Public Health, Medical & Vet Sciences
- About
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- Teaching
- Interests
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- Research
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- Consumer perspectives of health services
- Oral health promotion
- Public health and prevention
- Primary health care
- Research Disciplines
Mary O’Loughlin RN, BN, MPH is a public health teaching academic at James Cook University. She currently teaches into a range of public health subjects including Health and Health Care in Australia and Health Promotion in Dentistry. Her previous teaching has included epidemiology, occupational epidemiology and public health program evaluation.
Mary is a Registered Nurse, with a Bachelor of Nursing (with Distinction). In 2010 she completed her studies for a Master of Public Health (by research), investigating the health of Australian hairdressers.
Currently, Mary is a PhD candidate in the College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences. Her PhD project focuses on the Health Care Homes model of primary health care, exploring the model implementation from the consumer perspective.
Mary uses quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to research. She has experience in a range of research projects including surveys, large-scale data linkages, interviews and focus groups.
Areas of research interest include: consumer health; health service delivery and models of care; occupational epidemiology; oral health and health promotion; children and young people in out-of-home care; and approaches to learning and teaching.
- Honours
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- Awards
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- 2020 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning awarded to the HS2406 Health Promotion in Dentistry team
- 2020 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning awarded to the HS1401 Health and Health Care in Australia team
- 2015 to 2018 - Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) PhD scholarship
- Publications
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- Journal Articles
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- O'Loughlin M, Mills J, McDermott R and Harriss L (in press) Exploring the measure of potentially avoidable general practitioner-type presentations to the emergency department in regional Queensland using linked, patient-perspective data. Australian Health Review, (), DOI:10.1071/AH19210.
- Harriss L, Thompson F, Lawson K, O'Loughlin M and McDermott R (2019) Preventable hospitalisations in regional Queensland: potential for primary health? Australian Health Review, 43 (4), Article: AH18033, pp. 371-381, DOI:10.1071/AH18033.
- O'Loughlin M, Harriss L, Thompson F, McDermott R and Mills J (2019) Exploring factors that influence adult presentation to an emergency department in regional Queensland: a linked, cross‐sectional, patient perspective study. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31 (3), pp. 67-75, DOI:10.1111/1742-6723.13094.
- O'Loughlin M, Mills J, McDermott R and Harriss L (2017) Review of patient-reported experience within patient-centered medical homes: insights for Australian health care homes. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 23 (5), pp. 429-439, DOI:10.1071/PY17063.
- Other research outputs
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- O'Loughlin M, Harriss L, Mills J, Thompson F and McDermott R (2020) Validating Indigenous status in a regional Queensland hospital emergency department dataset with patient‐linked data. Medical Journal of Australia, 212 (5), pp. 230-231, DOI:10.5694/mja2.50401.
- Current Funding
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Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.
Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation - Research Grant
Health Care Homes In Cairns
- Indicative Funding
- $2,990 over 2 years
- Summary
- This project examines the health care experience of adults living with chronic conditions in Cairns to inform a new model of primary health care, the `Health Care Home? model. The project has a region-specific focus, examining challenges for the implementation of the model of care within the Cairns area. As part of a wider mixed methods project, the qualitative investigation will explore which elements of the Health Care Home model are of value to patients. The results from this investigation will be used to inform a patient-centred approach to health service delivery for people living with chronic conditions in Cairns.
- Investigators
- Mary O'Loughlin (College of Public Health and Medical & Vet Sciences)
- Keywords
- Patient experience; Chronic condition; Model of care; Patent Centred Medical Home; Health Care Home; Primary Health Care
My research areas
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