CENTRE OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN DISABILITY AND HEALTH

Why society is making people with disabilities sick

A KAVANAGH

Experiencing disability changed Anne Kavanagh’s perspective, and her career path

Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 2020.

George Disney, Dennis Petrie, Yi Yang, Zoe Aitken, Lyle Gurrin, Anne Kavanagh

2023-03-01

BACKGROUND: While policies to reduce smoking in many countries have been successful, disadvantaged groups (such as low-income grou..

'That was all over the shop': Exploring the COVID-19 response in disability residential settings

Ashley McAllister, Helen Dickinson, Marie Huska, Alexandra Devine, Stefanie Dimov, Anne Kavanagh

2023-02-24

People with disability are an ‘at-risk’ group in a pandemic context for various clinical and structural reasons. However, in the e..

COVID-19 vaccination coverage and vaccine hesitancy among Australians with disability and long-term health conditions

Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2023-01-11

ISSUE ADDRESSED: COVID-19 vaccination is the cornerstone of managing Australia's COVID-19 pandemic and the success of the vaccinat..

Political legitimacy and vaccine hesitancy: Disability support workers in Australia

Helen Dickinson, Anne Kavanagh, Stefanie Dimov, Marissa Shields, Ashley McAllister

2023-01-10

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>People with disability are an at-risk group in the COVID-19 pandemic for ..

Predictors of vaccine hesitancy among disability support workers in Australia: A cross-sectional survey

Anne Kavanagh, Helen Dickinson, Stefanie Dimov, Marissa Shields, Ashley McAllister

2022-12-14

BACKGROUND: Achieving high levels of vaccination among disability support workers (DSWs) is critical to protecting people with dis..

Disability-related inequalities in health and well-being are mediated by barriers to participation faced by people with disability. A causal mediation analysis.

Zoe Aitken, Glenda M Bishop, George Disney, Eric Emerson, Anne M Kavanagh

2022-12-01

Large inequalities in health and well-being exist between people with and without disability, in part due to poor socio-economic c..

The impact of the COVID pandemic on working age adults with disability: Meta-analysis of evidence from four national surveys.

Eric Emerson, Zoe Aitken, Vaso Totsika, Tania King, Roger J Stancliffe, Chris Hatton, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Richard P Hastings, Anne Kavanagh

2022-11-01

Concern has been expressed about the extent to which people with disabilities may be particularly vulnerable to negative impacts o..

Employment and disability among young Australians and associations with psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marissa Shields, Matthew J Spittal, Stefanie Dimov, Anne Kavanagh, Tania L King

2022-09-01

BACKGROUND: Emerging global data indicates that the employment status and mental health of young people is being adversely impacte..

Do Area-Level Environmental Factors Influence Employment for People with Disability? A Scoping Review

Nicola Fortune, Bernadette Curryer, Hannah Badland, Jennifer Smith-Merry, Alexandra Devine, Roger J Stancliffe, Eric Emerson, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

2022-08-01

Employment is an important social determinant of health and wellbeing. People with disability experience labour market disadvantag..

Mental health of young informal carers: a systematic review

Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo, Ankur Singh, George Disney, Jennifer Ervin, Tania King

2022-07-07

PURPOSE: This systematic review aims to assess and evaluate quantitative evidence on the association between informal caregiving a..

The COVID-19 vaccine intentions of Australian disability support workers.

Anne Kavanagh, Helen Dickinson, Stefanie Dimov, Marissa Shields, Ashley McAllister

2022-06-01

OBJECTIVES: Describe perceptions of COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, information sources, and levels and reasons for vaccine hesitancy..

Health and healthcare for people with disabilities in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

Anne Kavanagh, Chris Hatton, Roger J Stancliffe, Zoe Aitken, Tania King, Richard Hastings, Vaso Totsika, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Eric Emerson

2021-12-11

BACKGROUND: While emerging evidence shows increased mortality from COVID-19 among people with disability, evidence regarding wheth..

The association between disability and risk of exposure to peer cyber victimisation is moderated by gender: Cross-sectional survey

Eric Emerson, Zoe Aitken, Tania King, Joanne Arciuli, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Anne M Kavanagh

2021-12-11

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the exposure of youth with disability to cyber victimisation. OBJECTIVE: /Hypothesis: To estimat..

Vaccine hesitancy among working-age adults with/without disability in the UK

E Emerson, V Totsika, Z Aitken, T King, RP Hastings, C Hatton, RJ Stancliffe, G Llewellyn, A Kavanagh

2021-11-27

Objectives: To estimate levels of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among working-age adults with disabilities in the United Kingdom. St..

How much of the effect of disability acquisition on mental health is mediated through employment and income? A causal mediation analysis quantifying interventional indirect effects using data from four waves of an Australian cohort study

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2021-11-01

OBJECTIVES: There is evidence that disability acquisition causes a decline in mental health, but few studies have examined the cau..

Using machine learning to examine associations between the built environment and physical function: A feasibility study

Jerome N Rachele, Jingcheng Wang, Jasper S Wijnands, Haifeng Zhao, Rebecca Bentley, Mark Stevenson

2021-06-20

Linking geospatial neighbourhood design characteristics to health and behavioural data from population-representative cohorts is l..

Does disability modify the relationship between labour force status and psychological distress among young people?

Marissa Shields, Stefanie Dimov, Tania L King, Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Matthew J Spittal, George Disney

2021-06-01

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between labour force status, including young people who were unemployed and having problems ..

Improving health care for disabled people in COVID-19 and beyond: Lessons from Australia and England

Anne Kavanagh, Helen Dickinson, Gemma Carey, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Eric Emerson, George Disney, Chris Hatton

2021-04-05

COVID-19 has exacerbated pre-existing difficulties children and adults with disability face accessing quality health care. Some pe..

Overt acts of perceived discrimination reported by British working-age adults with and without disability

Eric Emerson, Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Cathy Vaughan, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Anne Kavanagh

2021-03-01

BACKGROUND: Exposure to discrimination can have a negative impact on health. There is little robust evidence on the prevalence of ..

The impact of disability on employment and financial security following the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Eric Emerson, Roger Stancliffe, Chris Hatton, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Tania King, Vaso Totsika, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh

2021-01-12

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have a greater impact on people with disabilities than non-disabl..

Torturing inadequate data to generate 'results'?

Eric Emerson, Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Cathy Vaughan, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Anne Kavanagh

2020-12-02

Area-Level Associations between Built Environment Characteristics and Disability Prevalence in Australia: An Ecological Analysis

Nicola Fortune, Ankur Singh, Hannah Badland, Roger J Stancliffe, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

2020-11-01

The importance of health-promoting neighborhoods has long been recognized, and characteristics of local built environments are amo..

Exposure to discrimination and subsequent changes in self-rated health: prospective evidence from the UK's Life Opportunities Survey

E Emerson, A Milner, Z Aitken, C Vaughan, G Llewellyn, AM Kavanagh

2020-08-01

OBJECTIVES: We sought to estimate risk of poor self-rated health (SRH) following exposure to disability-related and other forms of..

The impact of the disability support pension on mental health: evidence from 14 years of an Australian cohort

Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Ashley McAllister, Zoe Aitken

2020-07-22

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of the Australian Disability Support Pension (DSP) on the symptomology of depression and anxiety o..

Conformity to Masculine Norms: Differences Between Men With an Without a Disability

Tania L King, Marissa Shields, Allison Milner, Cathy Vaughan, Tom Shakespeare, Dianne Currier, Anne M Kavanagh

2020-07-01

There is a noted paucity of quantitative research examining the interrelationship between masculinity and disability. We analyzed ..

The wellbeing of working-age adults with and without disability in the UK: Associations with age, gender, ethnicity, partnership status, educational attainment and employment status

Eric Emerson, Nicola Fortune, Zoe Aitken, Chris Hatton, Roger Stancliffe, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

2020-07-01

BACKGROUND: Few population-based studies have examined the association between disability and personal wellbeing (PWB) among worki..

Disability and public health research in Australia

Anne Kavanagh

2020-06-24

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

2020-05-01

In this paper we consider how ‘feasibility’ considerations in urban policymaking fit within wider theories of the care-full just c..

'I'm proud of how far I've come. I'm just ready to work': mental health recovery narratives within the context of Australia's Disability Employment Services.

Alexandra Devine, Cathy Vaughan, Anne Kavanagh, Helen Dickinson, Sean Byars, Stefanie Dimov, Bill Gye, Lisa Brophy

2020-03-12

BACKGROUND: Employment is recognised as facilitating the personal and clinical recovery of people with psychosocial disability. Ye..

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

2020-03-01

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

The cumulative effect of living with disability on mental health in working-age adults: an analysis using marginal structural models

Amalia Karahalios, Frank Pega, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Julie A Simpson, Anne M Kavanagh

2020-03-01

PURPOSE: Previous studies have shown that acquiring a disability is associated with a reduction in mental health, but they have no..

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

2020-02-13

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

Do gender and psychosocial job stressors modify the relationship between disability and sickness absence: An investigation using 12 waves of a longitudinal cohort.

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Sean Byars, Peter Butterworth, Anne Kavanagh

2020-01-01

Objectives A considerable proportion of the working population reports a disability. These workers may be at risk of adverse outco..

If I had stable housing I would be a bit more receptive to having a job. Factors influencing the effectiveness of Disability Employment Services reform

Alexandra Devine, Cathy Vaughan, Anne Kavanagh

2020-01-01

BACKGROUND: Continual reforms of the Australian Disability Employment Services (DES) program aim to improve employment outcomes fo..

Trends and sociodemographic inequalities in the use of caesarean section in Indonesia, 1987-2017

Rana Islamiah Zahroh, George Disney, Ana Pilar Betran, Meghan A Bohren

2020-01-01

INTRODUCTION: Caesarean section (CS) rates are increasing globally. CS can be a live-saving procedure when medically indicated, bu..

Violence and Mental Health: Does Disability Make a Difference?

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

2020-01-01

An intersectional approach to understandings of mental health inequalities among men with disability

Tania L King, Marissa Shields, Tom Shakespeare, Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh

2019-12-01

Disability is a key social identity or social category that is associated with significant social disadvantage. For men, having a ..

The relationship between disability and suicide: prospective evidence from the Ten to Men cohort

Allison Milner, Anne-Marie Bollier, Eric Emerson, Anne Kavanagh

2019-12-01

BACKGROUND: People with disabilities often face a range of social and economic adversities. Evidence suggests that these disadvant..

Does sexual orientation vary between disabled and non-disabled men? findings from a population-based study of men in Australia

Anne-Marie Bollier, Tania King, S Bryn Austin, Tom Shakespeare, Matthew Spittal, Anne Kavanagh

2019-11-26

Some research suggests that disabled people are more likely to be sexual minorities than non-disabled people, but this evidence co..

Sexual Functioning in Men With and Without Disabilities: Findings From a Representative Sample of Australian Men

Anne-Marie Bollier, Tania King, Tom Shakespeare, Jane Hocking, Anne Kavanagh

2019-11-01

INTRODUCTION: Studies on sexual function in men with disabilities have mainly relied on clinical samples; population-based evidenc..

Does the effect of disability acquisition on mental health differ by employment characteristics? A longitudinal fixed-effects analysis

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Rebecca Bentley, Allison Milner, Anthony Daniel LaMontagne, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2019-10-24

PURPOSE: Longitudinal studies have suggested a causal relationship between disability acquisition and mental health, but there is ..

Disabling working environments and mental health: A commentary

Allison Milner, Marissa Shields, Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Anthony LaMontagne, Anne M Kavanagh

2019-10-01

Employment is a fundamental Social Determinant of Health known to have large impacts on mental health and other health outcomes. A..

Emotional difficulties and self-harm among British adolescents with and without disabilities: Cross sectional study

Eric Emerson, Tania King, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Joanne Arciuli, Anne Kavanagh

2019-10-01

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of emotional difficulties and self-harm among adolescents with a disability. OBJE..

Response to: Methodological point on mediation analysis

Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Naomi Priest, Amalia Karahalios, Anne Kavanagh, Tony Blakely

2019-10-01

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

2019-09-01

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

2019-09-01

MENTAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES AMONG MEN WITH DISABILITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH

TL King, M Shields, T Shakespeare, A Milner, A Kavanagh

2019-09-01

Mental health of adolescents: variations by borderline intellectual functioning and disability

Tania L King, Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Amalia Karahalios, Eric Emerson, Anne M Kavanagh

2019-09-01

Adolescence is a period of elevated stress for many young people, and it is possible that the challenges of adolescence are differ..

PREDICTORS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY IN AUSTRALIA: FINDINGS FROM A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY OF AUSTRALIAN ADULTS

A Kavanagh, AM Bollier, L Krnjacki, G Katsikis, V Kasidis, J Ozge, A Milner

2019-09-01

Violence against people with disabilites: variations by impairment type, gender and socio-economic status in an australian population-based study

L Krnjacki, E Emerson, G Llewellyn, Z Aitken, A Kavanagh

2019-09-01

To what extent is the association between disability and mental health in adolescents mediated by bullying? A causal mediation analysis (vol 47, pg 1402, 2018)

Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Naomi Priest, Amalia Karahalios, Anne Kavanagh, Tony Blakely

2019-06-01

The originally published version of this article contained errors in the listing of references 16, 19, 38, and 39. These have now ..

Gendered Working Environments as a Determinant of Mental Health Inequalities: A Protocol for a Systematic Review

Allison Milner, Anna J Scovelle, Tania L King, Claudia H Marck, Ashley McAllister, Anne M Kavanagh, Marissa Shields, Eszter Toeroek, Adrienne O'Neil

2019-04-01

Both gender and employment are critical and intersecting social determinants of mental and physical health. This paper describes t..

Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities

Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Hannah Badland, Kate Mason, Rebecca Bentley, Andrew Beer, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2019-01-02

Access to adequate, safe, secure, accessible and affordable housing is a fundamental human right and one stipulated in the United ..

Adapting to a marketised system: Network analysis of a personalisation scheme in early implementation

Eleanor Malbon, Damon Alexander, Gemma Carey, Daniel Reeders, Celia Green, Helen Dickinson, Anne Kavanagh

2019-01-01

As governments worldwide turn to personalised budgets and market-based solutions for the distribution of care services, the care s..

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

2019-01-01

Built environment attributes may be related to cardio-metabolic diseases (e.g. type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke) and thei..

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

2018-12-07

OBJECTIVES: Across high-income countries, unemployment rates among workers with disabilities are disproportionately high. The aim ..

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

2018-10-01

BACKGROUND: Young people with low education have worse health than those with higher education. This paper examined the extent to ..

To what extent is the association between disability and mental health in adolescents mediated by bullying? A causal mediation analysis

Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Naomi Priest, Amalia Karahalios, Anne Kavanagh, Tony Blakely

2018-10-01

BACKGROUND: Disability among adolescents is associated with both poorer mental health (MH) and higher levels of bullying-victimiza..

Do material, psychosocial and behavioural factors mediate the relationship between disability acquisition and mental health? A sequential causal mediation analysis

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Lyle Gurrin, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2018-06-01

BACKGROUND: There is evidence of a causal relationship between disability acquisition and poor mental health; however, the mechani..

Men's work, Women's work, and mental health: A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between the gender composition of occupations and mental health

Allison Milner, Tania King, Anthony D LaMontagne, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Kavanagh

2018-05-01

This longitudinal investigation assesses the extent to which the gender composition of an occupation (e.g., the extent to which an..

Disability-based discrimination and health: findings from an Australian-based population study

Lauren Krnjacki, Naomi Priest, Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Tania King, Anne Kavanagh

2018-04-01

OBJECTIVE: Among working-age Australian adults with a disability, we assess the association between disability-based discriminatio..

Gender, parental education, and experiences of bullying victimization by Australian adolescents with and without a disability

A Kavanagh, N Priest, E Emerson, A Milner, T King

2018-03-01

BACKGROUND: This study sought to compare the prevalence of bullying victimization between adolescents with and without a disabilit..

Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index among residentially stable mid-older aged adults: Findings from the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal study

Jerome N Rachele, Anne Kavanagh, Wendy J Brown, Aislinn M Healy, Christina J Schmid, Gavin Turrell

2017-12-01

Despite a body of evidence on the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index (BMI), few stud..

Underemployment and its impacts on mental health among those with disabilities: evidence from the HILDA cohort

Allison Milner, Tania Louise King, Anthony D LaMontagne, Zoe Aitken, Dennis Petrie, Anne M Kavanagh

2017-12-01

BACKGROUND: Underemployment (defined as when a person in paid employment works for fewer hours than their desired full working cap..

Redressing or entrenching social and health inequities through policy implementation? Examining personalised budgets through the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon, Daniel Reeders, Anne Kavanagh, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

2017-11-06

BACKGROUND: Increasing attention is being given to political agenda setting for the social determinants of health. While designing..

Does social support modify the effect of disability acquisition on mental health? A longitudinal study of Australian adults

Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Anne Marie Kavanagh, Anthony Daniel LaMontagne, Allison Milner

2017-10-01

PURPOSE: Disability acquisition in adulthood is associated with deterioration in mental health. Social support may act as a "buffe..

Bullying and mental health and suicidal behaviour among 14-to 15-year-olds in a representative sample of Australian children

Rebecca Ford, Tania King, Naomi Priest, Anne Kavanagh

2017-09-01

OBJECTIVE: To provide the first Australian population-based estimates of the association between bullying and adverse mental healt..

Disability acquisition and mental health: effect modification by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics using data from an Australian longitudinal study

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2017-09-01

OBJECTIVES: There is evidence of a causal relationship between disability acquisition and poor mental health, but the substantial ..