A5031959053- Noise Effects and Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
The University of Melbourne
2021-2024
National Health and Medical Research Council
2022-2023
Recent crises have underscored the importance that housing has in sustaining good health and, equally, its potential to harm health. Considering this and building on Howden-Chapman’s early glossary of WHO Housing Health Guidelines, paper introduces a range health-related terms, reflecting almost 20 years development field. It defines key concepts currently used research, policy practice describe relation inequalities. Definitions are organised by three overarching aspects housing:...
Australia experienced some of the world's longest and most stringent lockdowns during COVID-19 pandemic. While lockdown measures had consequences for mental health, investigation is lacking on potential green blue space coverage within people's local environments to ameliorate impact with varied lengths using longitudinal cohorts. This study examined durations population health tests effect modification neighbourhood inland coastal in metropolitan areas. We merged population-based data more...
When communities face infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, their resilience is largely dependent on social vulnerability. Housing, which functions a precipitator and outcome of vulnerability, needs to be considered in this context. Using geospatial data, we developed housing vulnerability index demonstrates that COVID-19 transmission hotspots Melbourne are potentially related where how people live – turn impacts capacity isolate. This analysis provides means both retrospectively...
The UN-Habitat World Cities Report 2020 highlighted that overcrowded housing, not urban density, is the major contributing factor to spread of COVID-19. relatively successful ability densely populated cities such as Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and New York City manage virus supports this. We hypothesise that, given complexity interaction between people place, relative contribution density crowding infectious diseases may be contingent on local factors. To directly compare role household...
ABSTRACT Exposure to environmental noise in residential areas has been associated with adverse mental health outcomes; however, the mechanisms of this relationship remain underexplored. This study investigates contribution reduced sleep quality negative association between perceived neighbourhood exposure and poor health. We used Household Income Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey applied causal mediation methods examine role self-reported road traffic plane, train industry (PTI)...
Abstract Introduction Australia's limited social housing has created geographically concentrated locales of poverty with high smoking rates. The impact on initiation among adolescent residents is unknown, despite adolescence being a critical period for prevention. We examine the relationship between residency and amongst adolescents to quantify likelihood uptake compared similar cohort in other tenures, accounting socio-economic factors household exposure smoking. Methods analysed data...
Abstract Background Persistent exposure to environmental noise in people’s homes has been associated with cardiovascular disease and poor mental health. Many studies conducted on health are based observational the extent which findings reflect residual confounding not known. Methods Using Household, Income Labour Dynamics survey Australia, we examine impact of (traffic, airplanes, train, industry) self-reported measured by Short Form 36 Health Survey. Fixed-effects longitudinal regression...