Disadvantage and Health Inequalites
Overview
Economic and social disadvantage lie at the root of preventable differences in health outcomes.
People facing economic disadvantage often experience poorer health outcomes due to limited access to nutritious food, quality healthcare and safe living conditions.
Social disadvantage may manifest as under-representation in or exclusion from various economic, political, or social activities.
This can constrain opportunities and influence health outcomes. For children and adolescents, the health and economic investments parents make can have life-long consequences.
Using rigorous statistical approaches and rich integrated survey and administrative data, our research offers new insights into the causes and consequences of health inequalities between the most and least advantaged in society.
This research helps us better understand the relationship between disadvantage and health, and evaluate and develop interventions that reduce health-related inequalities.
Stream Coordinators
Prominent projects
Economic causes and consequences of child maltreatment
This project investigates the economic causes and consequences of child maltreatment.
The loneliness recession: How economic insecurity isolates Australians
Examining how recessions and job insecurity affect loneliness in Australia.
Has the NDIS affected the overall use of formal services or caring hours?
Investigating the impact of NDIS availability on formal service use, caring hours, and carers’ employment.