Findings from the Flinders University project Health Inequalities in Australia will be presented and discussed in a special webinar event on May 18.

Attendees of the webinar – “Health Inequalities in Australia: The Contribution of Income, Wealth and Employment”, being presented from 10am to 11.30am on Tuesday 18 May – will be invited to hone interpretation of the findings and contribute to policy implications and recommendations.

This project, funded by a Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant, conducted research examining why health inequalities have been increasing in Australia over recent decades. It is a pilot project focused on three drivers: employment, income and wealth.

Health Inequalities in Australia used existing publicly available data to identify the ways in which the distribution of employment, income, and wealth contribute to explaining the increase in socio-economic health inequalities in Australia, with a particular focus on the trend between the 1980s and the present.

Intended benefits of the project are to understand how employment, income, and wealth have contributed to increasing health inequities in Australia. We also examined the utility of data by state/territory for assessing differences in trends and health inequalities.

Speakers at the webinar will include Dr Joanne Flavel, Professor Fran Baum, The Hon Mark Butler MP (Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) and Ross Womersley, CEO, South Australian Council of Social Service.

This research will be of interest to individuals and organisations concerned with health inequalities and the distribution of determinants of health, who can register to attend here before Friday 14 May.

More details about the webinar can be obtained by emailing joanne.flavel@flinders.edu.au