Melbourne School of Population and Global Health - Research Publications
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ItemYoung women ‘on the margins’: Representation, research and politics(Routledge, 2013-01-01)
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ItemThere goes the neighbourhood: the malign effects of stigma(Griffith University, 2006)
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ItemMore than tolerance: Racism and the health of young Australians(Common Ground Publishing, 2009)
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ItemCommunity development interventions to improve Aboriginal health: Building an evidence base(Informa UK Limited, 2007-10)
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ItemDeveloping and using local community wellbeing indicators: Learning from the experience of Community Indicators Victoria(AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICE INC, 2010-01-01)The recent upsurge of interest in local community wellbeing indicators in Australia and internationally reflects growing awareness of their importance as a platform for citizen engagement, community planning, and evidence based policy making. More broadly community wellbeing indicators are part of an international movement towards rethinking the ways in which political priorities are debated and in which progress and wellbeing are defined and measured. This article documents the establishment of Community Indicators Victoria (CIV), a local community wellbeing indicators initiative in Victoria, Australia. The article begins by locating the CIV initiative in the broad historical and international context of work on wellbeing, progress and sustainability indicators as well as the Australian and Victorian policy context. We then outline the steps involved in the establishment of CIV, critical partnerships and initial outcomes. We conclude with some reflections on lessons from the CIV experience to date and on future research and policy development priorities.
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ItemThe Good Life: what about the children?(AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICE INC, 2010-01-01)This paper is a reflective historical survey of how Australia, despite its affluence, has not delivered ‘the good life’ to poor Australians, both indigenous and non‐indigenous. It argues that, contrary to our national mythology, this country was founded on institutionalised social inequality and on the exclusion of Indigenous people from land rights, property and equal citizenship. As one of the world's twenty richest countries, we perform poorly across a wide range of social and health indicators because we suffer from entrenched, systemic and growing inequality. If we are to survive the challenges that face us from climate change and the global financial crisis, we need to shape policies that mitigate income and social inequality and that promote inclusion and better social cohesion.
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ItemDeep structure and controversy: Re-reading the fluoridation debate(ECONTENT MANAGEMENT, 2009-10)
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ItemSilent witnesses: Child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870-1940(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009-06)
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ItemWalking: A gender issue?(WILEY, 2008-01-01)Gender has been neglected in models of the social determinants of health. We use walking as a case study to demonstrate how gender might be incorporated into multilevel social determinants of health frameworks to investigate health behaviours. We found that while men and women had some similar individual (e.g. confidence in doing regular physical activity) and environmental (e.g. presence of destinations) predictors of walking there were also gender differences in the associations found at both of these levels. For example, low levels of education were only associated with men's walking time while having people in the household who made walking easy or hard was only associated with women's walking time. Likewise, having a variety of places to walk to was important for women's walking but not men's. These results indicate that both universal and gender‐specific approaches to health education, health promotion and planning might be needed to improve walking levels.