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You may wish to note that grant applications addressing the following research priorities are preferred. Applications falling outside these priorities will still be considered although they will have a lower funding preference.

Thematic priorities for the Application Round to be closed on 16 November 2010 are:

Public health theme

Smoking

• Identification of factors and evaluation of methods to prevent the uptake of smoking by specific target groups
• Effectiveness of methods to encourage smokers to cease smoking
• Evaluation of tobacco control policies, in particular pre- and post-intervention studies
  

Mental Health

• Effectiveness of treatment models, in particular those in a community setting
• Health needs assessment of the mentally ill and ex-mentally ill
  

Injury and poisoning

• Identification of risk factors for injury and poisoning
• Effectiveness and efficacy of methods to prevent injury and poisoning

Health services theme

Enhanced primary care

• Multidisciplinary approaches in primary care health service models
• Effectiveness of enhanced primary care programmes
  

Reducing avoidable hospitalisation

• Identification of ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• Community partnership models
• Effectiveness of programmes to reduce avoidable hospitalization
  

Chronic disease prevention and management

• Epidemiology of chronic disease
• Identification of factors that influence health behaviour
• Service delivery model for chronic disease management
• Effectiveness of health promotion activities and chronic disease management programmes
  

Chinese medicine theme

• Establishing safety profile of certain Chinese herbs and medicines
• Interactions between Chinese medicines and Western medicines
• Integrated approaches in combining Chinese and Western models of care
• Knowledge, attitude and practice or use of Chinese medicine in the community