Research strand
Social determinants, system design, and the evidence behind Generation Mental Wealth.
Youth mental health and suicide prevention
A simulation study quantifying the economic returns of addressing the social determinants of mental health. Even modest improvements in determinants such as social cohesion, childhood adversity and unemployment delivered substantial health gains and cost savings.
Youth mental health and suicide prevention
Presents evidence that unemployment and underemployment drove suicide mortality in Australia over 2004–2016, placing labour-market conditions within the remit of suicide prevention.
Youth mental health and suicide prevention
A system dynamics study comparing the cost effectiveness of eight system-level strategies for improving youth mental health.
Youth mental health and suicide prevention
Argues that population mental health will not improve while policy focuses on treating individuals and ignores the economic conditions that generate psychological distress. Insecure work, financial strain and social disconnection follow from economic policy choices, making economic policy a key lever for reform.
Youth mental health and suicide prevention
Uses systems modelling to find which combination of investments is projected to deliver the greatest reduction in youth suicide in an Australian region. The strongest suite coupled mental health interventions with reductions in childhood adversity and gains in youth employment.
Youth mental health and suicide prevention
Brings participatory systems modelling to youth mental health in a low- and middle-income setting, Bogotá, identifying the most effective suicide prevention strategies and showing how discontinuous funding undermines them.
Every work in this strand, newest first.