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Dr

George Disney

Research Fellow In Social Epidemiology
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
humans
adult
public, environmental & occupational health
male
female
mortality
middle aged
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Dr

George Disney

 
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Medicine, Dentistry And Health Sciences
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Dr

George Disney

 

George is a social epidemiologist. His current research focuses on analysing the determinants of the (avoidable) gap in health between people with and without disabilities.

Much of that research focuses on how government could and should act on the social determinants of health to reduce health inequalities for people with disability. He is currently leading a qual / quant project on smoking among people with intellectual disability, a study of the 'disability pay gap' and the quantitative component of two large government projects on uneven and inequitable utilisation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
George is an expert health inequalities researcher. He is passionate about improving the health of the whole population at the same time as eliminating avoidable and unnecessary health inequalities. To support this work, one strand of his research is specifically focussed on improving methods for estimating, monitoring and presenting health inequalities to policy makers, users of health statistics and the general public.
He previously worked at the Wellington School of Public Health, University of Otago. His research focus during his time in New Zealand centred on estimating ethnic and social inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence.
Prior to that George lived in the UK. He completed his PhD in Social Statistics and Demography ("Model based estimates of UK immigration") at the University of Southampton.

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by George Disney.

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Quantitative Analysis Of Ndis Plan Utilisation

2020 - 2020
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Ndia Utilisation Project

2020 - 2020
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 15 most recent scholarly works by George Disney.

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Hierarchical Models for International Comparisons Smoking, Disability, and Social Inequality in 21 European Countries

George Disney, Lyle Gurrin, Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Dennis Petrie

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: International comparisons of social inequalities in health outcomes and behaviors are challenging. Due to the level of..

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The effect of gender on mental health service use: an examination of mediation through material, social and health-related pathways

Allison Milner, George Disney, Sean Byars, Tania L King, Anne M Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: We aimed to understand how much of the gender difference in mental health service use could be due to the joint mediation..

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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

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HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS: A CASE STUDY OF SMOKING, DISABILITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN 21 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

G Disney, L Gurrin, A Milner, A Kavanagh, Z Aitken, D Petrie

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Oral Presentations

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HOW MUCH OF THE DISABILITY-RELATED INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING ARE MEDIATED BY BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION FACED BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES? A CAUSAL MEDIATION ANALYSIS USING LONGITUDINAL DATA FROM WORKING AGE PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES IN GREAT BRITAIN

Z Aitken, G Disney, L Krnjacki, A Milner, E Emerson, AM Kavanagh

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Oral presentations

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Assessing time series models for forecasting international migration: Lessons from the United Kingdom

J Bijak, G Disney, AM Findlay, JJ Forster, PWF Smith, A Wiśniowski

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Forecasting

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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

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Do employment factors reduce the effect of low education on mental health? A causal mediation analysis using a national panel study

Allison Milner, Tony Blakely, George Disney, Anne M Kavanagh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Zoe Aitken

Journal article  |  2018  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

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Socioeconomic and Tobacco Mediation of Ethnic Inequalities in Mortality over Time Repeated Census-mortality Cohort Studies, 1981 to 2011

Tony Blakely, George Disney, Linda Valeri, June Atkinson, Andrea Teng, Nick Wilson, Lyle Gurrin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Epidemiology

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Changing smoking-mortality association over time and across social groups: National census-mortality cohort studies from 1981 to 2011

Andrea Teng, June Atkinson, George Disney, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2017  |  Scientific Reports

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A Typology for Charting Socioeconomic Mortality Gradients "Go Southwest"

Tony Blakely, George Disney, June Atkinson, Andrea Teng, Johan P Mackenbach

Journal article  |  2017  |  Epidemiology

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Changing ethnic inequalities in mortality in New Zealand over 30 years: linked cohort studies with 68.9 million person-years of follow-up.

George Disney, Andrea Teng, June Atkinson, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2017  |  Population health metrics

BACKGROUND: Internationally, ethnic inequalities in mortality within countries are increasingly recognized as a public health conc..

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Changing ethnic inequalities in mortality in New Zealand over 30 years: linked cohort studies with 68.9 million person-years of follow-up

George Disney, Andrea Teng, June Atkinson, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2017  |  Population Health Metrics

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Changing socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality: Cohort study with 54 million person-years follow-up 1981-2011

Andrea M Teng, June Atkinson, George Disney, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2017  |  International Journal of Cancer

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Ethnic inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality: census-linked cohort studies with 87 million years of person-time follow-up

Andrea M Teng, June Atkinson, George Disney, Nick Wilson, Diana Sarfati, Melissa McLeod, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2016  |  BMC Cancer

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Keyword Analysis

Public Health and Health Services
Health and Support Services
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Expanding Knowledge
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)
Statistics
Applied Economics
Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Other Education and Training
Other Medical and Health Sciences

News

Displaying the 3 most recent news articles by George Disney.

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COVID-19 can reframe health politics

George Disney

March 26, 2020
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Health data saves lives: We need to be using it better

George Disney

August 2, 2019
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Is life getting better for people with disabilities?

George Disney

February 7, 2019

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Credentials

Positions

Research Fellow In Social Epidemiology

Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health

Education

Demography and Social Statistics

University of Southampton

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