Emily J Callander

Biographic Data

ID1249288
NAMEEmily J Callander
GIVEN NAMESEmily J
FAMILY NAMECallander
SIGNATURECALLANDER E J
AFFILIATIONSMonash University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Identifying Longer-Term Health Events and Outcomes and Health Service Use of Low Birthweight Cald Infants in Australia

    Open AccessShae Karger, Emmanuel U Ndayisaba et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2023

    Results from this study highlight the disparities in health service use and health events and outcomes associated with low birthweight infants, between both CALD and Australian born women. This study has responded to the knowledge gap of low birthweight on the Australian economy by identifying that there are significant inequalities in access to health services for CALD women in Australia, as well as increased health events and poor birth outcome…

  • Selecting and Implementing Patient-Reported Outcome and Experience Measures to Assess Health System Performance

    Open AccessColin Bull, Claudia Bull et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    This guide aims to provide practical resources for the identification of psychometrically robust PROMs and PREMs, as well as support for their implementation to drive improvements across health systems globally

  • Inequality in out of pocket fees, government funding and utilisation of maternal health services in Australia

    Open AccessEmily J Callander, Emily Callander et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2021

    This study aimed to assess the distribution of service utilisation, out-of-pocket fees and government funding for maternal health care in Australia by socioeconomic group. A large linked administrative dataset was utilised. Women were grouped into socioeconomic quintiles using an area-based measure of socioeconomic status. Descriptive statistics were used to quantify the distribution of number of services, out of pocket fees, and government fundi…

  • Psychological distress increases the risk of falling into poverty amongst older Australians

    Open AccessEmily J Callander, Emily Callander et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2018

    The elevated risk of falling into income and multidimensional poverty has been an overlooked cost of poor mental health

  • The risk of falling into poverty after developing heart disease

    Open AccessEmily J Callander, Emily Callander et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    For those under the age of 70, developing heart disease is associated with an increased risk of falling into both income poverty and multidimensional poverty

  • The economic impact of diabetes through lost labour force participation on individuals and government

    Open AccessDeborah Schofield, Michelle Cunich et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Individuals bear the cost of lost income in addition to the burden of the disease. The Government endures the impacts of lost productivity and income taxation revenue, as well as spending more in welfare payments. These national costs are in addition to the Government's direct healthcare costs

  • The personal and national costs of lost labour force participation due to arthritis

    Open AccessDeborah Schofield, Deborah J Schofield et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    The costs of arthritis to the individuals and the state are considerable. The impacts on the state include loss of productivity from reduced workforce participation, lost income taxation revenue, and increased government support payments - in addition to direct health care costs. Individuals bear the economic costs of lost income and the reduction of their savings over the long term

  • The impact of diabetes prevention on labour force participation and income of older Australians

    Open AccessMegan Passey, Megan E Passey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    In addition to improved health and wellbeing, considerable benefits to individuals, in terms of both additional working years and increased personal income, could be made by introducing either a lifestyle or metformin intervention to prevent diabetes

  • Capacity for Freedom - Using a New Poverty Measure to Look at Regional Differences in Living Standards within Australia

    Open AccessEmily J Callander, Emily Callander et al.ARTICLEGeographical Research2012Cited by: 1References: 11

    Using a recently developed measure of multidimensional poverty, the Freedom Poverty Measure, the difference in poverty rates of major cities, inner regional, and other areas have been compared. The population living in 'other areas' had the highest proportion of individuals living in freedom poverty. Those in inner regional areas (P = 0.0303) and those in major cities (P < 0.0001) were significantly less likely to be in freedom poverty than those…

  • Towards a holistic understanding of poverty

    Emily J Callander, Emily Callander et al.ARTICLEHealth Sociology Review2012Cited by: 3References: 25

    This paper draws upon literature from economics, and the human capital and equity fields in order to present a theoretical framework for a new multidimensional measure of poverty for Australia. Poverty is about having low living standards; but its measurement has traditionally focused only on an individual's income or on other dimensions of living standards that are not appropriate for contemporary Australian society, such as calorie intake. Ther…

  • Economic impacts of illness in older workers

    Open AccessDeborah Schofield, Deborah J Schofield et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Illness related early retirement has significant economic impacts on both the individual and on governments as a result of lost income, lost taxation revenue and increased government support payments. This paper has quantified the extent of these impacts for Australia