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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Socioeconomic inequalities in labour market participation are well established. However, we do not fully know what causes these inequalities.
Emma Carlsson +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster +4 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Adding more years to the work careers of an aging workforce – what works?
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2011 The increasing societal costs of the expanding retired population are forcing industrialized countries to find new ways to extend life-long work careers.
Mikko Härmä
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Perceived neighborhood safety and incident mobility disability among elders: the hazards of poverty
BMC Public Health, 2009 Background We investigated whether lack of perceived neighborhood safety due to crime, or living in high crime neighborhoods was associated with incident mobility disability in elderly populations.
Fay Martha E +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Having children is a major life course event yet some disabilities could make it biologically challenging and some others could limit access to necessary socioeconomic resources.
Fredinah Namatovu +2 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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Retirement as a predictor of physical functioning trajectories among older businessmen
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background Associations between retirement characteristics and consequent physical functioning (PF) are poorly understood, particularly in higher socioeconomic groups, where postponing retirement has had both positive and negative implications for PF ...
Markus J. Haapanen +5 more
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