Diana Contreras Suarez

Associations between ongoing COVID-19 lockdown and the financial and mental health experiences of Australian families

Anna MH Price, Diana Contreras-Suarez, Anna Zhu, Natalie Schreurs, Mary-Anne Measey, Sue Woolfenden, Jade Burley, Hannah Bryson, Daryl Efron, Anthea Rhodes, Sharon Goldfeld

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES

In 2020, Australia's successful COVID-19 public health restrictions comprised a national "initial lockdown" (March-May) and "ongoi..

Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age

Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Susan Wieczkiewicz

Journal article  |  2022  |  REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD

An understanding of the experiences of men and women who marry before adulthood is important in motivating social change. Using fi..

Pandemic times not all bad for household relationships - Taking the Pulse of the Nation, August 2022

Diana Contreras Suarez

Report  |  2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s lives and relationships in unprecedented ways. Though it is widely recognised that one ..

Connecting Healthcare with Income Maximisation Services: A Systematic Review on the Health, Wellbeing and Financial Impacts for Families with Young Children

Jade Burley, Nora Samir, Anna Price, Anneka Parker, Anna Zhu, Valsamma Eapen, Diana Contreras-Suarez, Natalie Schreurs, Kenny Lawson, Raghu Lingam, Rebekah Grace, Shanti Raman, Lynn Kemp, Rebecca Bishop, Sharon Goldfeld, Susan Woolfenden

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Financial counselling and income-maximisation services have the potential to reduce financial hardship and its associated burdens ..

Theoretical explanations for socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity: a scoping review

Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo, Tania King, Emily You, Diana Contreras-Suarez, Syafiqah Zulkelfi, Ankur Singh

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMJ OPEN

OBJECTIVE: To document socioepidemiological theories used to explain the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and multi..

Connecting healthcare with income maximisation services, and their financial, health and well-being impacts for families with young children: a systematic review protocol

Jade Burley, Anna MH Price, Anneka Parker, Nora Samir, Anna Zhu, Valsamma Eapen, Diana Contreras-Suarez, Natalie Schreurs, KD Lawson, Raghu Lingam, Rebekah Grace, Shanti Raman, Lynn Kemp, Sumayya Chota, Sharon Goldfeld, Susan Woolfenden

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ OPEN

INTRODUCTION: Poverty has far-reaching and detrimental effects on children's physical and mental health, across all geographies. F..

Health spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program

Diana Contreras Suarez, Pushkar Maitra

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Population Economics

We use data from the Familias en Acción program in Colombia to examine the spillover or indirect effects of a conditional cash tra..

Relationship between water and sanitation and maternal health: Evidence from Indonesia

L Cameron, C Chase, D Contreras Suarez

Journal article  |  2021  |  World Development

Poor household water supply and sanitation can affect maternal and newborn health outcomes through several pathways, including the..

Role of social support in the relationship between financial hardship and multimorbidity-a causal mediation analysis.

Ankur Singh, Diana Contreras Suarez, Emily You, Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo, Tania King

Journal article  |  2021  |  European Journal of Public Health

BACKGROUND: Social disadvantage is a key determinant of multimorbidity. Pathways through which social disadvantage leads to multim..

Study protocol for the Healthier Wealthier Families (HWF) pilot randomised controlled trial: testing the feasibility of delivering financial counselling to families with young children who are identified as experiencing financial hardship by community-based nurses.

Anna MH Price, Anna Zhu, Huu NJ Nguyen, Diana Contreras-Suárez, Natalie Schreurs, Jade Burley, Kenny D Lawson, Margaret Kelaher, Raghu Lingam, Rebekah Grace, Shanti Raman, Lynn Kemp, Susan Woolfenden, Sharon Goldfeld

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Poverty and deprivation can harm children's future health, learning, economic productivity and societal participatio..