“It sounds like a good thing to have happened – people get access to more, but what we saw was that those opportunities were taken up more by people who came from the more affluent areas,” Associate Professor Enticott said.
One in five Australian women aged 55 to 64 have high levels of mental distress associated with financial insecurity, an increase of 40 per cent in the last 20 years, according to an analysis led by Monash University.
Most Australians reported adhering well to public health measures during the second COVID wave.
A new Learning Health System framework developed by Monash Partners and Monash University will better connect community priorities with the latest research and health professionals to improve patient care.
COVID-19 has amplified and heightened existing inequalities, particularly for women. A national collaborative evidence-based approach is vital to tackle the inequalities for women and women’s health, careers and well-being.
World Health Organisation Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently said of the international COVID response that “we are all in this together, but the world is not acting like it”.
One in five Australian women aged 55 to 64 have high levels of mental distress associated with financial insecurity, an increase of 40 per cent in the last 20 years, according to an analysis led by Monash University.
The public health measures introduced to limit the spread of COVID-19 were swift and unprecedented. The impacts will reverberate for many years to come.