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A number of researchers in the School are undertaking research exploring aspects of self-care across the life-course, in the general population and as it relates to living with a range of chronic illnesses. This research is helping understand how self-care can be facilitated and cultivated in different communities and populations via various initiatives employing primary health care and allied health care practitioners and practice as well as wider health education and promotion programs and health policy.

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  • Distinguished Professor Jon Adams
  • Professor David Sibbritt
  • Associate Professor Amie Steel
  • Dr Wenbo Peng
  • Kim Graham
  • Hope Foley

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Distinguished Professor Jon Adams

Jon Adams

Jon recently completed an ARC Professorial Future Fellowship and then a Fulbright Senior Scholarship extending a research program around self-care and vulnerable communities/populations. 

Jon is the Co-Chair of a Worldwide Universities Network-funded Global Summit on Self-Care: R&D Opportunities for Non-Communicable Diseases held in partnership with the Self Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU), Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London in Sept 2023. 

Jon is helping shape a global collaboration across several prestigious universities and in partnership with leading health associations, industry and governments to help facilitate and encourage stronger self-care for all. 

Publications

Networks of knowledge or just old wives’ tales?: A diary-based analysis of women’s self-care practices and everyday lay expertise

Utilisation of self‐care products and practices and its associated factors among stroke survivors

The Utilization of Health Services and Self-Care by Older Women With Sleeping Problems: Results From a Nationally Representative Sample of 9,110 Women

A critical review of self-care for sleep disturbances: prevalence, profile, motivation, perceived effectiveness and medical provider communication

The Significance of Traditional and Complementary Medicine to Self-Care and Addressing Global Health Challenges: Advancing the Commitments of the Declaration of Astana Through a Strong Research Program

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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