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What Makes Us Healthy

WebMelbourne Social Equity Institute is excited to be working with the Centre on a number of projects, including a new PhD Scholarship in Disability and Policy. This …

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The Power and Limitations of Health as a Human Right

WebThe existence of a right to health is now uncontested in international human rights law and “every country in the world has accepted that human rights are universal and is bound by …

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What Is Social Equity

WebIn the medical context, Paula Braveman and Sofia Guskin (2003: 254) have defined equity in health as “the absence of systematic disparities in health (or in the major social …

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Melbourne Social Equity Institute

WebMelbourne Social Equity Institute conducts and facilitates interdisciplinary research that addresses the causes and consequences of social inequities and advances knowledge …

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Making Information Accessible – For Everyone

WebOur recommendations are all informed by the human rights everyone has to accessible information and support for decision-making, as well as being informed by the …

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Alternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Settings: A …

Web6 Community’ Based Alternatives to Coercion 67 Residential Programmes for People in Acute Crisis as Alternatives to Hospitalisation 67

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Reconceptualising and supporting disaster recovery as growth: …

WebAfter the Black Saturday bushfires, psychosocial support was provided to people in geographically affected communities. Localised services focused on supporting those …

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Place, health and liveability

WebPlace, health and liveability. The social, economic and environmental advantages of providing a range of housing in the established parts of Melbourne have been recognized …

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How Will COVID-19 Magnify Existing Health Inequalities for …

WebAccess to information and communication technologies. Information about COVID-19 and physical distancing in first languages may be unavailable. Even when …

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Empathy and portrayals of mental illness in Australian visual culture

WebEmpathy and portrayals of mental illness in Australian visual culture. Empathy is known to be an essential ingredient for reducing negative perceptions, misunderstandings and …

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PhD Program in Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies

WebThe Melbourne Social Equity Institute's Interdisciplinary PhD Program is open to graduate researchers in any faculty at the University of Melbourne undertaking a PhD related to …

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Food for Thought

WebFood insecurity is a problem that has multiple knock-on effects. Our research pointed to the close relationship between food insecurity and physical/mental ill health, …

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Co-producing Safe, Inclusive Workplaces for Consumer Mental …

WebWednesday 18 November 2020. Consumer workers play an important role in mental health service provision, providing support and advocacy in a way that draws on their lived …

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Hospitals or prisons

WebIn Victoria, those prisoners who need compulsory mental health care (that is, under sections 275 and 276 of the Mental Health Act 2014) are treated at Thomas …

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The WEAVERs Project

WebThe WEAVERs are a panel of survivors of violence against women. The WEAVERs are a group of women who have experienced domestic, family violence and/or sexual violence …

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Developing a model for peer support in emergency departments

WebThis project will identify the optimal role for peer workers in emergency departments. It will co-produce an innovative service model drawing on research evidence in mental health …

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Liveable, Healthy, Sustainable

WebLiveable, Healthy, Sustainable: Melanie Lowe1&2, Carolyn Whitzman1, Hannah Badland2, Melanie Davern2, Dominique Hes1, Lu Aye3, Iain Butterworth4, Billie Giles-Corti2 …

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Community Fellows Program

WebThe Community Fellows Program offers a respectful, supportive and focused space for practitioners to step outside the daily demands of their work and consider how they might …

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Trauma-Informed Positive Education: Using Positive …

Web40 % of students in the USA have been exposed to some form of traumatic stressor in their lives. In this nationally USA representative survey to determine the prevalence of trauma …

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