Disability and health

Funding agency

National Health and Medical Research Council

Project period

2016 - 2021

Researchers

Project aims

The Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH) aims to identify cost-effective policies that improve the health of people with disabilities in Australia.

We will map the spatial distribution of social, economic and health inequities between people with and without disabilities; apply cutting-edge epidemiological methods to establish the main social determinants of health of people with disability; build the first-ever cost-effectiveness model to estimate the health impacts and value for money of policy interventions for people with disabilities, and embed stakeholders in the research process so that they are involved in the co-production of knowledge.

Official website: www.credh.org.au

Publications

Badji, S., Kavanagh, A., & Petrie, D. (2023). The impact of Disability Insurance reassessment on healthcare use. Health Economics, 1– 22.

Ma BH, Badji S, Petrie D, Llewellyn G, Chen G (2023) Social interventions to support people with disability: A systematic review of economic evaluation studies. PLOS ONE 18(1): e0278930.

NDIS cost scrutiny is intensifying again the past shows this can harm health and wellbeing for people with disability. A Conversation article by Samia Badji, Anne Kavanagh & Dennis Petrie. May 1, 2023.

Part-time work is valuable to people with disability but full-time is more likely to attract government support. A Conversation article by Helen Dickinson, Dennis Petrie & Zoe Aitken. May 29, 2023.

Identification of people with disability in linked administrative data. Methodology Paper 9 December 2021. By Dr Zoe Aitken, Dr Nicola Fortune, Ms Lauren Krnjacki, Dr Samia Badji, Dr George Disney, Professor Anne Kavanagh

How can we use quantitative data for disability research? Webinar on 24 August featuring Dr Samia Badji.