Seeking the Principles of Power and Danger

Here is the latest paper I have published with Ang Li  that provides an evaluation of No Jab No Play   policies that have been enacted in a series of Australian states.  Here is the title and abstract:    Title :   Vaccine mandates on childcare entry without conscientious objection exemptions: A quasi-experimental panel study   Abstract :  Objectives Examine the effect of No Jab No Play policies, which linked vaccine status to childcare service entry without allowing for personal belief exemptions, on  immunisation coverage . Study design Immunisation coverage rates from the Australian Immunisation Register were linked to regional level covariates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics between January 2016 and December 2019. Differential timings of policy rollouts across states were used to assess changes in coverage with the implementation of policies with generalised linear models. Quantile regression and subgroup analysis were also...

New paper by  Ang Li , Emma Baker, and Rebecca Bentley has been published in Social Science and Medicine , looking at how stable and secure tenancy affects the mental health and level of psychological distress of private renters compared to home owners. The results suggest that stability helps to close the mental health gap between those two groups by increasing renters well being at a faster rate overtime. This is interesting to me for two reasons: 1) it suggests that ontological security is more important than tenure type. It isn't necessarily homeownership that is protective of mental health. 2) it underscores the relationship between housing and mental health, and that the rights of tenants should be considered a public health issue.  Here is the abstract for ' Understanding the mental health effects of instability in the private rental sector: A longitudinal analysis of a national cohort ':  Using a population-based longitudinal dataset in Australia ov...