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Overview

Alan Shiell is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in health professions, medicine, and economics. Their work spans multiple disciplines, combining insights from economics, health policy, and community health development.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Health Professions
  • Medicine
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, Shiell has focused on subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The primary themes of Shiell's research cover several areas, prominently:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Community Health and Development
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Shiell has published regularly in notable venues, including:

  • Health Economics
  • Critical Public Health
  • Prosthetics and Orthotics International
  • Systematic Reviews
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Shiell include:

  • Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions, 2023, Health Economics
  • Resources, relationships, and systems thinking should inform the way community health promotion is funded, 2020, Critical Public Health
  • Shoe-stiffening inserts for first metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis: a randomised trial, 2021, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • Soft infrastructure: the critical community-level resources reportedly needed for program success, 2022, BMC Public Health
  • A systematic review of health economic evaluations in orthotics and prosthetics: Part 1 - prosthetics, 2020, Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Shiell has collaborated frequently with a group of researchers, including:

  • Shane Kavanagh
  • Penelope Hawe
  • Kate Garvey
  • Victoria Loblay
  • Leigh Clarke

Best Publications

  • Complex interventions: how "out of control" can a randomised controlled trial be?

    Penelope Hawe;Alan Shiell;Therese Riley

  • Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions

    L Rychetnik;M Frommer;P Hawe;A Shiell

  • Theorising Interventions as Events in Systems

    Penelope Hawe;Alan Shiell;Therese Riley

  • The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health

    Harry Rutter;Natalie Savona;Ketevan Glonti;Jo Bibby

  • Social capital and health promotion: a review.

    Penelope Hawe;Alan Shiell

  • In search of causality: a systematic review of the relationship between the built environment and physical activity among adults.

    Gavin R McCormack;Alan Shiell

  • Complex interventions or complex systems? Implications for health economic evaluation

    Alan Shiell;Penelope Hawe;Lisa Gold

  • A simple guide to chaos and complexity

    Dean Rickles;Penelope Hawe;Alan Shiell

  • A glossary of terms for navigating the field of social network analysis

    Penelope Hawe;Cynthia Webster;Alan Shiell

  • Quality of life three months and one year after first treatment for early stage breast cancer: influence of treatment and patient characteristics

    M T King;P Kenny;A Shiell;J Hall

  • Methods for exploring implementation variation and local context within a cluster randomised community intervention trial

    Penelope Hawe;Alan Shiell;Therese Riley;Lisa Gold

  • Cost of illness studies: An aid to decision-making?

    Alan Shiell;Karen Gerard;Cam Donaldson

  • The Privileging of Communitarian Ideas: Citation Practices and the Translation of Social Capital Into Public Health Research

    Spencer Moore;Alan Shiell;Penelope Hawe;Valerie A. Haines

  • Lost in translation: a genealogy of the “social capital” concept in public health

    Susan Moore;Valerie A Haines;Penelope Hawe;Penelope Hawe;Alan Murray Shiell;Alan Murray Shiell

  • Health economic evaluation

    A Shiell;C Donaldson;C Mitton;G Currie

  • Cost effectiveness of brief interventions for reducing alcohol consumption.

    Sonia E Wutzke;Alan Shiell;Michelle K Gomel;Katherine M Conigrave

  • Health promotion community development and the tyranny of individualism.

    A. Shiell;P. Hawe

  • Is general practitioner decision making associated with patient socio-economic status ?

    Anthony Scott;I Alan Shiell;Madeleine King

  • Early stage breast cancer: costs and quality of life one year after treatment by mastectomy or conservative surgery and radiation therapy

    P. Kenny;M.T. King;M.T. King;A. Shiell;A. Shiell;J. Seymour;J. Seymour

  • Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions

    Alan Shiell;Penelope Hawe;Shane Kavanagh

  • Sex- and age-specific seasonal variations in physical activity among adults

    Gavin R McCormack;Christine Friedenreich;Alan Shiell;Billie Giles-Corti

Frequent Co-Authors

Penelope Hawe
Penelope Hawe University of Sydney
Gavin R. McCormack
Gavin R. McCormack University of Calgary
Jane Hall
Jane Hall University of Technology Sydney
Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott University of Melbourne
Stephen Jan
Stephen Jan George Institute for Global Health
Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lena Sanci
Lena Sanci University of Melbourne
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts University College London
Kelsey Hegarty
Kelsey Hegarty University of Melbourne
Jane Pirkis
Jane Pirkis University of Melbourne

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