Health and Society Unit
Centre for Health Policy
The Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit brings together the humanities and social sciences in the study of health and health care. The Centre uses multi-disciplinary approaches to strengthen the nexus between theory and practice in the study of health and society.
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Ethics and Equity: Transforming data sharing in infectious disease epidemics
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Using feminist pedagogy to resist harmful weight-loss dieting practices
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Vandemonians: The understory of colonial Victoria
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The First AIF: Risk Recovery and Resilience
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Moratorium on Genetic Testing & Life Insurance: Monitoring the impact
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Evidence base to inform health service configuration for abortion provision
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Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: ethical challenges in implementation
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Clinical ethics and COVID-19
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Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
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Japan and self-help groups
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Sonic Japan
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Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit has a range of Australian and international networks across the health sector, research institutions, community organisations, government ministries and departments.
Welcome to the Health and Society Unit
The Health and Society Unit (HSU) brings together the humanities and social sciences in the study of health and health care. The Centre uses multi-disciplinary approaches to strengthen the nexus between theory and practice in the study of health and society.
Work across the Centre integrates a variety of humanities and social sciences perspectives on health, disease and healthcare delivery, and uses disciplinary approaches from the history of health and medicine, medical anthropology, health ethics, sociology of health and illness, and health policy analysis.
Programs of work across this Unit focus on alcohol and other drugs, building the national and international evidence base for policy; historical demography, reconstituting historical populations to study fertility, mortality, morbidity and health transitions; ethics, including clinical ethics, research ethics, health care ethics, bioethics and ethical decision making; and the advancement of health social sciences through methodological development and innovation.