Youth cohort: Improving Disability Employment Study (Y-IDES)
Associate Professor Allison Milner, The University of Melbourne
Partners:
- Monash University
- Deakin University
- Brotherhood of St. Laurence
- Disability Employment Australia
- National Disability Services
- VicHealth
This project will produce new evidence about the individual, service-related, workplace and contextual factors that contribute to successful employment and health outcomes for young people with a disability and will identify when and where it might be most cost-effective to intervene. In this partnership project, the team will draw on the existing data about young people in IDES, and recruit a further 1,100 young people into a new cohort called “Youth cohort: Improving Disability Employment Study’ (Y-IDES). This is the first cohort to explicitly assess the links between health and transition into work and early employment among young people with disabilities.
RESPOND: Reflective evidence and systems interventions to prevent obesity and non-communicable disease
Professor Steven Allender, Deakin University
Partners:
- Beechworth Health Service
- Benalla Health, as lead agency for Central Hume Primary Care Partnership
- Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria
- Gateway Health
- Goulburn Valley Family Care Inc, as lead agency for Goulburn Valley Primary Care Partnership
- Nexus Primary Health, as lead agency for Lower Hume Primary Care Partnership
- Numurkah District Health Service
- Gateway Health, as lead agency for Upper Hume Primary Care Partnership
- VicHealth
- Yarrawonga Health
The practical application of systems science to the prevention of chronic disease, particularly obesity, has increased rapidly in recent years with Australia leading the world (e.g. Healthy Together Victoria and ACT It's You're Move). This partnership project aims to build on the lessons learned in the research team's strong history in community-based obesity prevention interventions across regional Victoria. We propose that permanent reductions in childhood obesity are possible if the complex and dynamic causes of obesity are well understood and addressed through increased community ownership and responsibility. To put this hypothesis into action, we aim to embed best practice for obesity prevention into existing community systems (e.g. health services, local council, schools) across regional Victoria with routine, reflexive and comprehensive monitoring of changes in obesity and systems.