Action for Equity
Description and aims
This stream supports better and fairer health for families and communities locally, nationally and internationally. There are three research programs within this stream.
Key current research areas
Children and young people
This program focuses on understanding the needs of vulnerable families and developing and trailing interventions to improve child and young people’s health, development and educational outcomes, including individual, family and service system interventions.
Communities and Populations
This program focuses on the health and wellbeing of whole communities and populations. Research in this program is conducted with communities, populations and organisations, and address planning and policies.
Equity Implementation and Social Innovation
This program focuses on building individual, community, organisational and service system capacity to effectively implement tools and interventions to improve health and development outcomes for families and communities.
Key partners
Key partners in the stream and its research programmes are local communities (particular the Tharawal community in South Western Sydney), consumer groups and community advocates, health districts, local councils, and industry.
Stream lead
Evelyne de Leeuw and Fiona Haigh jointly lead this stream.
Completed
Projects
Locational Disadvantage: Focussing on place to improve health
This project was originally funded through the Department of Health and Ageing PHERP Innovative Grants Program to develop a generic public health workforce development tool and apply it to working in locationally disadvantaged communities.
Miller early childhood sustained home visiting randomised control trial
The study of comprehensive sustained professional home visiting programs initiated antenatally for at risk mothers who reside in a community characterised by profound socioeconomic disadvantage and the impact it has on differing outcomes.
Miller early childhood sustained homes visiting: Outcomes at 4 years and the transition to school (MECSH 2)
This study will follow-up the families in the MECSH project.
NSW Health Impact Assessment - Phase1
This project built on work that had been done by CHETRE in the development of the Health and Equity Statement nd in support of Healthy People 2005.
NSW Health Impact Assessment Project - Phase 2
A follow on from the Phase 1 contract