Health Equity Hub

This brief reports the policy implications of findings from a series of studies examining access to, use of, and benefits from digital health services, and implications for health equity. It highlights how an uncritical shift to online service provision risks exacerbating health inequities.

This is an Executive briefing including our findings and recommendations from the Healthy South project (2019) to inform the Department for Health and Wellbeing, Wellbeing SA and Southern Adelaide LHN on how to create the system building blocks required to make the south a health promoting region.

This policy brief outlines the evidence behind, content and uses of the Healthy Urban Neighbourhood Transition Tool. A tool developed to facilitate and aid the transition of established car oriented suburbs in metropolitan Adelaide towards a healthy liveable form and function.

This policy brief presents the main findings and recommendations from the Southgate research project ‘The Social Determinants of Health and Psychological Wellbeing: Improving the mental health of all through broad based policy and intersectoral action’, which examined state-based policy for strategy that enabled population mental health.

Findings and policy recommendations from our research on the health impacts of transnational corporations.

This policy brief was prepared in March 2019 to support discussion on the Closing the Gap strategy. It is based on current and previous Southgate research on Australian health policy and Closing the Gap policy, and identifies how policy makers can act on the social determinants of Indigenous health.

This policy brief makes recommendations for the future reform of PHNs based on our research on regional primary health care organisations.

A policy brief containing our 10 point plan for reforming primary health care in Australia and a summary of the key findings from our primary health care research program.

Key policy-relevant findings from this research project on the different models of comprehensive primary health care services, how these services put primary health care principles into practice, and the barriers and challenges they faced.

Policy findings from this research project which examined uptake of evidence on the social determinants of health and health equity in Australian governments’ health policies.

An overview of key research findings and policy recommendations from our research into the implementation and effectiveness of the Health in All Policies approach in South Australia.

This policy brief provides research findings and recommendations on key areas for development to facilitate positive housing outcomes for asylum seekers and refugees in ways that promote social inclusion and health and wellbeing.