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Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson, Joanne Arciuli, Eric Emerson, Sally Robinson, Sally Chance, Gerry Redmond   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring income related inequality in health and health care: the partial concentration index with direct and indirect standardisation. [PDF]

The partial concentration index measures income related inequality in health (or health care) after removing the effects of standardising variables which affect health (or health care), are correlated with income but not amenable to policy.
Hugh Gravelle
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From access to capability: digital literacy and health inequality in contemporary China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Chen G, He J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Hours Worked by Primary Carers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary caregivers constitute a major unpaid workforce in Australia. The aim of this study was to determine the sociodemographic factors that are associated with carer workloads. Multinomial logistic regression modelling was applied to the nation‐wide Australian Government survey.
Andrew J. Hamilton
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating and explaining differences in income related inequality in health across general practices. [PDF]

We use data on individual patients in general practices to examine whether income related inequality in self reported health differs across general practices and whether such differences are explained by characteristics of the practices. We allow for the
Hugh Gravelle, Mark Dusheiko, Stephen Campbell   +2 more
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Geographical accessibility to hospital care amid armed conflict in Myanmar: a population-weighted analysis of compounding health inequality, 2021-2024. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Thu H, Tin KK, Htoo AT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Widening Health Inequality and Causal Metabolic Drivers in Global Colorectal Cancer: A Multi-Dimensional Study. [PDF]

Cancer Inform
Gao S, Peng M, Han S, Tang Y, Ren J, Cen Y, Hou F, Chen L, Yin X.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public preferences for reducing health inequality in the US: a national survey. [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics
Shimamoto K, Doran T, Cookson R.
europepmc   +1 more source