Dr Jerome Rachele

Dr Jerome Rachele is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Equity, University of Melbourne, working on the social determinants of health for people with disabilities. His research centres around investigating causal relationships between environments and health using data from longitudinal studies, with a focus on inequalities.

He is working towards creating a society where everyone gets a fair go at good health.

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Jerome Rachele's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers on social inclusion

Jerome Rachele's selected work

Neighbourhood Design And Disability: A Policy Review

Internal Research Grant

Making Australia’s most liveable city more inclusive

NEWS ARTICLE

The Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: data, data gaps, and policy implication..

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Violence and Mental Health: Does Disability Make a Difference?

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Neighbourhood built environment and physical function among mid-to-older aged adults: A sy..

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A multilevel study of neighborhood disadvantage, individual socioeconomic position, and bo..

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Projects

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Neighbourhood Design And Disability: A Policy Review

2019 - 2019

Completed

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Projects

Project Types

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 42 most recent scholarly works by Jerome Rachele.

Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers on social inclusion

Jerome N Rachele, Ilan Wiesel, Ellen van Holstein, Vickie Feretopoulos, Tessa de Vries, Celia Green, Ellen Bicknell

Journal article | 2020 | Cities

The Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: data, data gaps, and policy implications

Nicola Fortune, Hannah Badland, Shane Clifton, Eric Emerson, Jerome Rachele, Roger J Stancliffe, Qingsheng Zhou, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

Journal article | 2020 | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

OBJECTIVE: To develop a framework and indicators to monitor inequalities in health and the social determinants of health for Austr..

Violence and Mental Health: Does Disability Make a Difference?

Jerome N Rachele, George Disney, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Lauren Krnjacki, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article | 2020 | Epidemiology

Neighbourhood built environment and physical function among mid-to-older aged adults: A systematic review

Jerome N Rachele, Takemi Sugiyama, Sasha Davies, Venurs HY Loh, Gavin Turrell, Alison Carver, Ester Cerin

Journal article | 2019 | Health & Place

This systematic review included 23 quantitative studies that estimated associations between aspects of the neighbourhood built env..

A multilevel study of neighborhood disadvantage, individual socioeconomic position, and body mass index: Exploring cross-level interaction effects.

Jerome N Rachele, Christina J Schmid, Wendy J Brown, Andrea Nathan, Carlijn BM Kamphuis, Gavin Turrell

Journal article | 2019 | Preventive Medicine Reports

This study examined associations between neighborhood disadvantage and body mass index (BMI), and tested whether this differed by ..

Do Differences in Social Environments Explain Gender Differences in Recreational Walking across Neighbourhoods?

Fatima Ghani, Jerome N Rachele, Venurs HY Loh, Simon Washington, Gavin Turrell

Journal article | 2019 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Land use proportion and walking: Application of isometric substitution analysis

Takemi Sugiyama, Jerome N Rachele, Lucy D Gunn, Nicola W Burton, Wendy J Brown, Gavin Turrell

Journal article | 2019 | Health & Place

The potential for walkability to narrow neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in physical function: A case study of middle-aged to older adults in Brisbane, Australia

Venurs HY Loh, Jerome N Rachele, Wendy J Brown, Fatima Ghani, Simon Washington, Gavin Turrell

Journal article | 2019 | Health & Place

Safe Habitats: Does the Association Between Neighborhood Crime and Walking Differ by Neighborhood Disadvantage?

S Foster, P Hooper, NW Burton, WJ Brown, B Giles-Corti, JN Rachele, G Turrell

Journal article | 2019 | Environment and Behavior

Built environment and cardio-metabolic health: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

M Chandrabose, JN Rachele, L Gunn, A Kavanagh, N Owen, G Turrell, B Giles-Corti, T Sugiyama

Journal article | 2019 | Obesity Reviews

Employment predictors of exit from work among workers with disabilities: A survival analysis from the household income labour dynamics in Australia survey

Allison Milner, Yamna Taouk, George Disney, Zoe Aitken, Jerome Rachele, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article | 2018 | PLOS ONE