Lisa Wood

Nov 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Lisa Wood

Homelessness has now taken the lead as Australia’s largest and most damning disparity in life expectancy. A landmark report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare looked at the deaths of those seeking help from specialist homelessness services in their last year of life between 2012-2022. The sheer number of deaths – around 12,500 over the ten-year period – is staggering, as is the upward increase over time. But so are the disparities.

Nov 28, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Lisa Wood

© 2024 Tolerance.ca® Inc. All reproduction rights reserved. All information reproduced on the Web pages of www.tolerance.ca (including articles, images, photographs, and logos) is protected by intellectual property rights owned by Tolerance.ca® Inc. or, in certain cases, by its author. Any reproduction of the information for use other than personal use is prohibited.

Feb 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lisa Wood

If you are reading this in Australia, your odds of living to the ripe old age of 81 are good, as that is now the average age of death in the country. Australia now has the third highest life expectancy globally. But this average masks a sobering three-decade gap in life expectancy for people who have experienced homelessness.

Sep 25, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Kristen Foley |Toby Freeman |Lisa Wood |Joanne Flavel

The context for considering logic modelling as hermeneutic praxisIn 2019, the authors were approached by a local Non-Government Organisation (NGO) planning to establish a Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) service for people experiencing homelessness, and were seeking expertise to ensure it was a robust CPHC design and to consider how the service could be evaluated.

Feb 19, 2023 | theguardian.com | Lisa Wood

It was the curves and intersections of the stone ceiling of the crypt in St Paul’s Cathedral that provided the inspiration for the gates forged for the crypt’s Treasury by the artist blacksmith Alan Evans, who has died aged 70, of pancreatic cancer. Alan entered and won a design competition for the gates in 1980, early in his career.