Ms Anne Ellershaw
Researcher
Adelaide Dental School
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
In her current role at ARCPOH where Anne has been employed for 13 years, she has played a major role in the development and implementation of 4 National Dental Telephone Interview Surveys. She has also developed the sample designs for the NSW and QLD Child Dental Health Surveys. Prior to this Anne worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra, Melbourne & Adelaide assisting in the design and development of National surveys.
Expertise in all facets of survey design including sample design, sample frame creation, sample selection, questionnaire design, data capture systems including programming WINCATI software to capture data via telephone interview, output processing, weighting of survey data and production of reports to present research findings.
Expertise in SAS programming to implement sample design and selection, data editing and classification, weighting of sampled data and analysis of survey data using a range of statistical techniques including logistic regression, poisson regression, linear regression, multinomial regression and standardisation.
Research interests include:
• Investigating the relationship between dental visiting patterns and oral health outcomes
• Monitoring trends in the dental visiting patterns of children & adults
• Identifying groups in the Australian population who experience barriers to accessing dental care
• Population survey design including strategies to weight sample data
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title — University of Adelaide Australia Honours degree in Mathematical Statistics majoring in Applied Mathematics & Statistics -
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Journals
Year Citation 2014 Ellershaw, A., & Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health. (2014). Dental attendance patterns of Australian adults. Australian Dental Journal (Data Watch), 59(1), 129-134.
2011 Spencer, A., & Ellershaw, A. (2011). Chronic disease and use of dental services in Australia. Australian Dental Journal, 56(3), 336-340.
2005 Ellershaw, A. (2005). Oral health and access to dental care in Australia - Comparisons by cardholder status and geographic region. Australian Dental Journal, 50(4), 282-285.
2004 Harford, J., Ellershaw, A., & Stewart, J. (2004). Access to dental care in Australia. Australian Dental Journal, 49(4), 206-208.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2016 Chrisopoulos, S., Ellershaw, A., Luzzi, L., Roberts-Thomson, K., & Do, L. (2016). Measuring child oral health and its influences. In L. Do, & A. Spencer (Eds.), Oral Health of Australian Children The National Child Oral Health Study 2012-14 (pp. 15-34). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press. 2016 Ellershaw, A., Koster, C., & Do, L. (2016). Data weighting, consideration and estimation procedures. In L. Do, & A. Spencer (Eds.), Oral Health of Australian Children The National Child Oral Health Study 2012-14 (pp. 35-47). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press. 2016 Luzzi, L., Ha, D., Ellershaw, A., Koster, C., Brennan, D., & Chrisopoulos, S. (2016). Measuring representativeness of the study participants. In L. Do, & A. Spencer (Eds.), Oral Health of Australian Children The National Child Oral Health Study 2012-14 (pp. 48-85). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press. 2007 Slade, G., Roberts-Thomson, K., & Ellershaw, A. (2007). Survey aims and methods. In G. Slade, A. Spencer, & K. Roberts-Thomson (Eds.), Australia's Dental Generations: The National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004-2006 (pp. 11-36). Australia: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Media and Publishing Unit). -
Report for External Bodies
Year Citation 2016 Harford, J. E., Chrisopoulos, S., & Ellershaw, A. (2016). Oral health and dental care in Australia: key facts and figures 2015 (Cat. no. DEN 229.). Authoritative information and statistics to promote better health and wellbeing. 2014 Do, L., Ellershaw, A., Roberts-Thomson, K. F., Beckwith, K., Mejia, G. C., & Johnston, Z. (2014). Survey methods: The Beginning of Change: Queensland Child Oral Health Survey 2010-2012 (2). Queensland: Queensland Health. 2014 Mejia, G., Ellershaw, A., Ha, D., & Koster, C. (2014). Study sample characteristics: The Beginning of Change: Queensland Child Oral Health Survey 2010-2012 (3). 2012 Stewart, J. F., & Ellershaw, A. C. (2012). Oral health and use of dental services 2008, Findings from the National Dental Telephone Interview Survey 2008 (Cat. no. DEN 216). Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. 2012 Mejia, G., Amarasena, H., Ha, D., Roberts-Thomson, K., & Ellershaw, A. (2012). Child Dental Health Survey Australia 2007: 30-year trends in child oral health (Cat. no. DEN 217). Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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