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National Disability Research Partnership, 2024 Anne Kavanagh is an Australian epidemiologist and professor at the University of Melbourne . Her research specialises in inequalities in health across different types of social determinants including gender, disability, the built environment, socioeconomic situations, as well as other factors such ...
The Close the Gap campaign arose in response to Professor Tom Calma’s Social Justice Report (2005), [1] in which he described the social factors underlying the health inequality in Australia, and challenged governments to bring parity within a generation. In Australia, Aboriginal infants die more often than non-Indigenous infants, Aboriginal ...
Goldfeld was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "significant service to paediatric medicine as a clinician and academic, and to public health research". [14] In the same year, she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2024. [15]
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
The two principal models that attempt to explain this relationship are the social causation theory, which posits that socioeconomic inequality causes stress that gives rise to mental illness, and the downward drift approach, which assumes that people predisposed to mental illness are reduced in socioeconomic status as a result of the illness ...
In 2020, the Australian Council of Social Service released a report stating that relative poverty was growing in Australia, with an estimated 3.2 million people, or 13.6% of the population, living below the internationally accepted relative poverty threshold of 50% of a country's median income. The report also estimated that 774,000 children ...
In 2018, it was reported that Australia’s full-time gender pay gap was 14.6% and women earnt on average A$244.80 per week less than men. [6] It was also reported that Western Australia had the highest pay gap by state and territory (22.4%), while the lowest pay gap was reported in Tasmania (9.7%). [6]
Australia has the fifth highest rate of obesity in the OECD. More than a third of the adult population are overweight and about a third obese. 57% do not take enough exercise. [31] Australian health statistics show that chronic disease such as heart disease, particularly strokes which reflects a more affluent lifestyle is a common cause of ...