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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230101422
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$467,132.00
Summary
Co-creating critical health literacy interventions. This project aims to enhance critical health literacy in culturally and linguistically diverse communities in western Sydney. Never in history has there been such an abundance of health information from numerous sources, with varying degrees of trustworthiness. This project intends to work with communities to co-create scalable interventions which promote critical health literacy and support people to navigate and appraise the sea of available ....Co-creating critical health literacy interventions. This project aims to enhance critical health literacy in culturally and linguistically diverse communities in western Sydney. Never in history has there been such an abundance of health information from numerous sources, with varying degrees of trustworthiness. This project intends to work with communities to co-create scalable interventions which promote critical health literacy and support people to navigate and appraise the sea of available health (mis)information. This project expects to provide significant social and health benefits through the development of innovative health literacy research methods for use with culturally-diverse communities and scalable interventions with the capacity to enhance critical skills across communities.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100309
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$328,614.00
Summary
Understanding the Dynamics of Socioeconomic Related Health Inequalities. Health differences across socio-economic groups have persisted in many countries, including Australia, despite decades of considerable improvements in life expectancy and average health status. Little is known of how policies may influence socio-economic health inequalities as the mechanisms underlying them are complex and the causes differ across population groups and over the lifecycle. This project aims to develop method ....Understanding the Dynamics of Socioeconomic Related Health Inequalities. Health differences across socio-economic groups have persisted in many countries, including Australia, despite decades of considerable improvements in life expectancy and average health status. Little is known of how policies may influence socio-economic health inequalities as the mechanisms underlying them are complex and the causes differ across population groups and over the lifecycle. This project aims to develop methods to quantify the major mechanisms that give rise to changes in socio-economic health inequalities in Australia. This project aims to improve our understanding of the dynamic factors that drive changes in health inequalities, thus providing useful information for decision makers about which policies will be cost effective at reducing them.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100438
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$402,996.00
Summary
Children's time investments, cognitive development and health. This project aims to understand time investment decisions of children and adolescents. There is a need for more robust evidence on the combination of time investments that improve early cognitive skills and well being. Using advanced econometric techniques and longitudinal data, this project expects to generate new knowledge on how children and adolescents spend their time, and how such time investments affect their health and cognit ....Children's time investments, cognitive development and health. This project aims to understand time investment decisions of children and adolescents. There is a need for more robust evidence on the combination of time investments that improve early cognitive skills and well being. Using advanced econometric techniques and longitudinal data, this project expects to generate new knowledge on how children and adolescents spend their time, and how such time investments affect their health and cognitive development. Expected outcomes of this project include a greater understanding of the early determinants of health and economic inequalities. This will contribute to the development of effective policies for improving educational outcomes, preventing harmful behaviours and promoting health and well being.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100719
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$383,312.00
Summary
The health cost of extended delays for inpatient treatment. Extended delays for elective procedures in public hospitals impede the National Research Priority of promoting and maintaining good health. Using unique large survey data linked to multiple years of health administrative records and the death registry, this project provides comprehensive costs of waiting, capturing both in-hospital and out of hospital health deterioration and impacts on medical expenditure. The estimation strategy takes ....The health cost of extended delays for inpatient treatment. Extended delays for elective procedures in public hospitals impede the National Research Priority of promoting and maintaining good health. Using unique large survey data linked to multiple years of health administrative records and the death registry, this project provides comprehensive costs of waiting, capturing both in-hospital and out of hospital health deterioration and impacts on medical expenditure. The estimation strategy takes into account patients’ initial choice to join the waiting list instead of going to a private hospital and allows for variation in the costs of waiting across patients. The results will have significant policy implications for waiting time reduction policies, health resource prioritisation and promotion of health equity.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130101239
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$322,423.00
Summary
Improving migrant health: identifying and addressing the health needs of migrants in Australia. The purpose of this study is to explore the social, economic and cultural factors affecting migrant health and understand how health disadvantages rise among migrants in Australia. The outcomes of the project are expected to help us better understand the health risks of migrants, therefore contributing to improving population health in Australia.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230101551
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$443,742.00
Summary
Towards dignity-based knowledge practices in global health. When the dignity of its beneficiaries is not respected, especially their dignity as knowers, global health efforts in low-income settings perpetuate falsehoods and promote wrong interventions. This project aims to fill an urgent gap in the field of global health – how to institutionalise respect for beneficiaries’ dignity as knowers. The project will do so by investigating strategies that helped to institutionalise evidence-based practi ....Towards dignity-based knowledge practices in global health. When the dignity of its beneficiaries is not respected, especially their dignity as knowers, global health efforts in low-income settings perpetuate falsehoods and promote wrong interventions. This project aims to fill an urgent gap in the field of global health – how to institutionalise respect for beneficiaries’ dignity as knowers. The project will do so by investigating strategies that helped to institutionalise evidence-based practices in the fields of health care and health policy. Expected outcomes include practical strategies to institutionalise dignity-based practices in knowledge production, use and circulation. This should lead to major social, health and economic benefits by improving the effectiveness of global health efforts.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230101210
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$431,476.00
Summary
Social Inequalities in Oral Health among Australian Working Age Adults. Australian working age adults with social and economic disadvantage have significantly poorer oral health outcomes than those from advantaged backgrounds. This project explores how changes in social position over time, and interactions between different forms of social disadvantage, contribute to social inequalities in oral health. This project expects to improve understanding of social inequalities in oral health, and its s ....Social Inequalities in Oral Health among Australian Working Age Adults. Australian working age adults with social and economic disadvantage have significantly poorer oral health outcomes than those from advantaged backgrounds. This project explores how changes in social position over time, and interactions between different forms of social disadvantage, contribute to social inequalities in oral health. This project expects to improve understanding of social inequalities in oral health, and its solutions, by developing and applying analytical and simulation models. This will help identify ways to reduce the persistent social inequalities in oral health outcomes in working age adults. In doing this, it will inform policies in future that will significantly improve the well-being of Australian working age adults.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190101134
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$342,338.00
Summary
Contraceptive choice for women with chronic disease. This project aims to understand the contraceptive decision-making practices of Australian women of reproductive age with chronic disease. To reduce high-risk unintended pregnancies in this vulnerable population, this project will develop a tailored educational app to support these women to make contraceptive choices and establish a reproductive life plan. The expected outcomes of the project are to assist women with chronic diseases safely pla ....Contraceptive choice for women with chronic disease. This project aims to understand the contraceptive decision-making practices of Australian women of reproductive age with chronic disease. To reduce high-risk unintended pregnancies in this vulnerable population, this project will develop a tailored educational app to support these women to make contraceptive choices and establish a reproductive life plan. The expected outcomes of the project are to assist women with chronic diseases safely plan pregnancies to ensure maternal personal, social and economic well-being and optimal birth outcomes.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101710
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Protecting equity and ethics in organ donation: patient, public and professional perspectives. This project will investigate patient, public and professional views on organ donation and preferences for consent systems regarding deceased organ donation in Australia, allocation of scarce organs, and protecting the health and safety of living organ donors. Recommendations to enhance equitable and ethical organ donation will be developed.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100414
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$363,000.00
Summary
Ethics and Equity: Implications for health systems research priority-setting. The project aims to develop ethical guidance on engaging research users and beneficiaries in health systems research priority-setting. As a matter of justice, research on health systems should generate knowledge that improves access and affordability of care for disadvantaged groups, but research questions often fail to reflect the major health system issues these groups face and findings are often not used in policy a ....Ethics and Equity: Implications for health systems research priority-setting. The project aims to develop ethical guidance on engaging research users and beneficiaries in health systems research priority-setting. As a matter of justice, research on health systems should generate knowledge that improves access and affordability of care for disadvantaged groups, but research questions often fail to reflect the major health system issues these groups face and findings are often not used in policy and practice. The project will develop ethical guidance on how research users and beneficiaries should be engaged in health systems research priority-setting and benchmarks for achieving such engagement. Ethical guidance is expected to facilitate a rise in research that improves health systems for disadvantaged groups.Read moreRead less