Health Equity and Social Organisation

Team Leader: Dr Toni Schofield
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This team of researchers conducts a range of social research projects in the area of health and equity. Drawing on social scientific approaches and methods, most of the studies have a strong policy focus.

Major research projects are being undertaken in the following areas:

• Workplace health
• Public health and electronic media
• Health and community service responses to trafficked women in Australia
• Community-based mental health services for women
• Maternity services policy and its implementation throughout Australia

The group includes approximately 20 post-graduate research students. Some of the topics pursued by doctoral candidates are:

• Borderline personality disorder and its gendered construction
• Occupational rehabilitation and injury management in NSW since 1987
• Allied health professionals' understanding of the needs of visually impaired people
• Rural health policy in China and access to health care among Miao older people
• Growing up Lebanese in Australia: The health experience of young Lebanese-Australian adults
• Mental health professionals' experiences of using dialectical behaviour therapy
• Health service responses to men with depression and suicidal ideation
• The social construction of early motherhood