Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity
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The Southgate Institute for Health Society and Equity is a national centre for research on the social determinants of health and wellbeing, and health equity. It builds on the reputation of Flinders University for conducting policy and practice-relevant research. The Southgate Institute’s research focus is on what can be done about the underlying factors that determine the distribution of health and wellbeing outcomes, with a particular emphasis on labour markets, social exclusion, housing, structure of suburban environments; economic social and structural determinants of risky and unhealthy behaviours; and social cultural and economic barriers to health and other related service use. The Southgate Institute aims to attract significant external research income, host and facilitate high profile researchers to visit South Australia and Flinders University, build a multi-disciplinary network of researchers at Flinders University with diverse research interests relating to health, society and equity; engage with policy makers and conduct policy relevant research; and encourage the development of early career researchers. SACHRU has been part of the Southgate Institute for a number of years, and will cease to exist at the end of 2013.
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Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity - Collected Works
This collection incorporates publications produced by the South Australian Community Health Research Unit (SACHRU).
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Integrative health care - Toward a common understanding: A mixed method study
(Elsevier, 2017-12-06)Objective To generate a multidisciplinary stakeholder-informed definition of integrative health care (IHC). Methods A mixed-method study design was used, employing the use of focus groups/semi-structured interviews ... -
Burn injury models of care: A review of quality and cultural safety for care of Indigenous children
(Elsevier, 2017-11-27)Safety and quality in the systematic management of burn care is important to ensure optimal outcomes. It is not clear if or how burn injury models of care uphold these qualities, or if they provide a space for culturally ... -
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Measure Attitude change in Health Professionals after Completion of an Aboriginal Health and Cultural Safety Training Programme
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-12-11)Socially accountable health curricula, designed to decrease Aboriginal health inequities through the transformation of health professional students into culturally safe practitioners, has become a focal point for health ... -
‘Yarning up with Koori kids’ – hearing the voices of Australian urban Indigenous children about their health and well-being
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-10-21)Objective: Australian Indigenous children experience some of the most substantial health inequalities globally. In this context, research regarding their health and well-being has overemphasised physical illnesses with ... -
Hybrid cultures: creating a third space in Aboriginal healthcare
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Understanding burn injuries in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: protocol for a prospective cohort study
(BMJ Publishing group, 2015-10-13)Introduction Although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia have higher risk of burns compared with non-Aboriginal children, their access to burn care, particularly postdischarge care, is poorly ... -
Working at the interface in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: focussing on the individual health professional and their organisation as a means to address health equity
(BioMed Central, 2016-11-17)Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience inequity in health outcomes in Australia. Health care interactions are an important starting place to seek to address this inequity. The majority of ... -
Use of telehealth for health care of Indigenous peoples with chronic conditions: a systematic review
(James Cook University, 2017-09-20)Introduction: Telehealth may be a cost effective modality in healthcare delivery, but how well used or how appropriate it is for the care of Indigenous peoples is unclear. This review examines the evidence for telehealth ... -
Policy environments and job loss: Lived experience of retrenched Australian automotive workers
(Sage Journals, 2012-09-06)Job loss has negative consequences for health and evidence shows that the agency of workers experiencing job loss is affected by labour market and welfare policy. The policy environment into which workers emerge after ... -
Exploring Social Capital: as Concept and Practice in Australian Public Health Policies and Programs
(Wiley, 2014-04-09)Over the past twenty years interest has grown in the concept of social capital in international and Australian public policy. We explore how social capital is understood as a concept and used in practice for guiding policy ... -
Social mix and the role of design: Competing interests in the Carlton Public Housing Estate Redevelopment, Melbourne
(Elsevier, 2014-05-08)The social mix policy approach has become a common reaction to the multiple-disadvantage increasingly present in public housing estates in western cities. This approach and its social effects on socially-mixed communities ... -
Inequalities in social capital and health between people with and without disabilities
(Elsevier, 2014-12-04)The poor mental and physical health of people with disabilities has been well documented and there is evidence to suggest that inequalities in health between people with and without disabilities may be at least partly ... -
Public housing renewal and social determinants of health
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-08-11)This article draws on the concept of residential context of housing and its relationship to health. It considers a bundle of changes through implementation of a housing renewal initiative as part of the Carlton Housing ... -
Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-07-14)In this paper, we report on the level of support for tenure mix policies of residents living proximate to the Carlton Housing Estate mixed tenure redevelopment in Melbourne Australia. In a telephone survey of 200 residents ... -
Australian Aboriginal Urban Residents’ Satisfaction with Living in Their Neighbourhood: Perceptions of the Neighbourhood Socio-cultural Environment and Individual Socio-demographic Factors
(Sage Journals, 2011-12-19)This paper draws on survey data from 143 Aboriginal participants living in Adelaide, South Australia, to examine factors associated with Australian Aboriginal urban residents’ satisfaction with living in their neighbourhoods. ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Housing and Health for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Australia: A Qualitative Study
(MDPI, 2017-09-08)Housing is an important social determinant of health; however, little is known about the impact of housing experiences on health and wellbeing for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. In this paper, we outline ... -
Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities
(Wiley, 2014-02-15)Increasing rates of chronic conditions have resulted in governments targeting health behaviour such as smoking, eating high‐fat diets, or physical inactivity known to increase risk for these conditions. In the process, ... -
Evaluation of Health in All Policies: concept, theory and application
(Oxford University Press, 2014-06-01)This article describes some of the crucial theoretical, methodological and practical issues that need to be considered when evaluating Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives. The approaches that have been applied to ... -
Dear health minister: tend the garden but make sure you fence the crocodiles
(BMJ Publishing group, 2014-01-02)This paper offers lessons to in-coming health ministers on how they can act to reduce inequities and take action on social determinants. It draws on an interview study of twenty former Australian State, Territory and Federal ... -
A Longitudinal Study of the Mental Health Impacts of Job Loss: The Role of Socioeconomic, Sociodemographic, and Social Capital Factors
(American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2014-07)Objectives: To examine the role of socioeconomic, sociodemographic, and social capital factors in buffering or exacerbating the mental health impacts of job loss. Methods: A 2-year longitudinal cohort study of 300 workers ...
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