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Professor Craig Veitch

Professor Craig Veitch

 

Position

Chair of Community Based Care
Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health.
Research team member
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Research interests  Community based health care, rural health, health care behaviours and decision making, health workforce, health services research, road crashes, community health services development, epidemiology, cancer and palliative care.
Publications Cheffins T, Heal C, Rudolphy S, Evans, VEITCH C. (2009).
Management of acute otitis externa by General Practitioners in North Queensland.
Australian Family Physician, 38(4): 262-266.

VEITCH C (2009).
Impact of rurality: environmental determinants.
Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2009; 17: 16-20.

O'Connor T, Hanks H, Elcock M, Turner R, VEITCH C, (2009). 
The medical and retrieval costs of road crashes in rural and remote north Queensland 2004-07: findings from the rural and remote road safety study.
MJA, 190(2): 54-56.

Hanks H, VEITCH C, Harris M, (2009).
Postepowanie w raku jelita grubego: Rola Iekarza rodzinnego.
Colorectal cancer management: The role of the GP. 
Translated & reprinted in Polish medical journal

Lekarz Rodzinny, (2009); 137(1): 59-64, from Hanks H, VEITCH C, Harris M, 2008.
Colorectal cancer management: The role of the GP.
Australian Family Physician, 37(4): 259-261.

Hanks H, VEITCH PC, Harris MF, (2008). A rural/urban comparison of the roles of the General Practitioner in Colorectal Cancer Management.  Australian Journal of Rural Health, 16(6): 376-382.

Blackman R, Cheffins T, VEITCH C, O'Connor T, (2008).
Young driver restrictions: does the evidence support them? 
Australian Journal of Rural Health, 16(6): 332-337.

VEITCH C, Crossland LJ, Steeghs M, Ho Y-H, Hanks H, (2008). 
Patients' experiences of colorectal cancer and oncology services in north Queensland.
Australian Journal of Primary Health, 14(3): 93-100.

Hanks H, Harris M, VEITCH C, (2008). 
Managing colo-rectal cancer: The general practitioner’s roles.
Australian Journal of Primary Health, 14(3): 78-84.

Heal C, VEITCH C, Preston R, (2008).
Lessons from the field: Conducting practice-based research.
Australian Family Physician, 37(5): 381-384.

Hanks H, VEITCH C, Harris M, (2008).
Colorectal cancer management: The role of the GP.
Australian Family Physician, 37(4): 259-261. 

Cheffins T, Blackman R, VEITCH C, (2007).
Rural GPs' management of vehicle-related trauma.
Australian Family Physician, 36: 782-784.

Larkins, S, Page P, Panaretto K, Scott R, Mitchell M, Lee H, Alberts V, VEITCH C, McGinty S, (2007).
Attitudes and behaviours of young Indigenous people in Townsville concerning relationships, sex and contraception: the "U Mob Yarn Up" project.
MJA 186: 513-518.

Howat A, VEITCH C, Cairns W, (2007).
A retrospective review of place of death of palliative care patients in regional north Queensland.
Palliative Medicine 21(1): 41-7.

Saltman DC, O'Dea NA, Farmer J, VEITCH C, Rosen G, Kidd MR, (2007).
Groups or teams in health care: finding the best fit.
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 13: 55-60.

VEITCH C, Battye K, (2008).
Chapter 8, Rural health workforce: planning and development for recruitment and retention,
in Liaw S-T & S Kilpatrick (eds), A textbook of Australian Rural Health, Australian Rural Health Education Network, Canberra. (pp. 113-127).
Grant applications

Current NHMRC
2007-2011
Building research capacity in Indigenous Australians and community controlled health services.  NHMRC Capacity Building Grant (ID 431504) in Population Health Research, with R Speare, K Tsey, J Elston, R Murray.

Current applications from other sources
2008-2010
Referral pathways in colorectal cancer: general practitioners’ patterns of referral and factors that influence referral. Cancer Council of Australia Project Grant, with MF Harris, R Knight, AD Spigelman, DL O’Connell, MB Barton, J Beilby

2008-2010
Research to Track the Rural Pharmacy Workforce and Identify the Role that Rural Programs have on the Retention of the Rural Pharmacy Workforce. Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing & Pharmacy Guild of Australia, with J Smith, K Battye, et al  

Past applications from other sources
2007
Database development for multiple longitudinal studies of colorectal cancer.  JCU Research Infrastructure Block Grant, with Y-H Ho, L Kennedy.

2007-2008
Evaluation of two strategies undertaken by Queensland Emergency Medical System Coordination Centre (QCC) in Townsville to improve outcomes for rural patients following traumatic injury.  Australian Rotary Health Research Fund grant, with M Elcock, P Aitken, A McDonnell, K Mathews, R Andrews.

2007-2008
Acute Otitis Externa: incidence, prevalence and management in tropical north
Queensland.  Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing –PHCRED.
Veitch, Cheffins, Rudolphy.

2006-2007
Rural residents' experiences of colo-rectal cancer in north Queensland (& Scottish Highlands).  Queensland Cancer Fund grant, with Y-H Ho.

2002-2008
Research Program to reduce the economic, medical and social costs of road crashes in Northern Queensland, with M Sheehan, V Siskind, C Edmonstone, R Turner, E Chalmers.  Funded by Queensland Government & Motor Accident Insurance Commission

2006-2008
AVANTI.  JCU Research Advancement Program grant, with L Kennedy, J Golledge, et al

2003-2007
North Qld Centre for Cancer Research.  Queensland Cancer Fund research establishment grant, Ho, Lam, Raasch, Veitch, Buettner 

Current applications under review

Disability Service Use: Service Attributes and Threshold Factors
Veitch, Bundy, Lincoln, Gallego, Goodall
Duration: 2010-2011
Project grant

DriveSafe: An innovative screening for identifying safe older drivers
Bundy, Clemson, Veitch, Usherwood, Sullivan, Steele, (check CI order)
Duration: 2010-2012
Project grant