Health Inequity Experienced by Australian Paediatric Patients

Dr Vicki Xafis is an ethicist, linguist, qualitative researcher, and educator and has held positions at numerous Australian universities and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore. A highlight in Vicki’s career was setting up the Clinical Ethics Service at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Sydney, Australia), with support from dedicated senior clinicians. Vicki was founding member and Secretary of the Perinatal Palliative Care Subcommittee (Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand – PSANZ) from 2013-2017 and an Executive Committee member of the Public Health Association of Australia (South Australian Branch) from 2011-2013. She remains a member of the PSANZ Policy Subcommittee and is a Cochrane review author.  Her greatest achievement and privilege in life is having made a small contribution to the lives of children, young people, and adults through teaching.

Chapter 1- Introduction.- Chapter 2 – Methods and methodology.- Chapter 3 – Overview of Social Determinants of Health Findings and Vignettes.- Chapter 4 – Results of health inequity analyses.- Chapter 5 – Discussion of findings on social determinants of health.- Chapter 6 – Challenges faced in addressing the needs of these children/young people.- Chapter 7 – Solutions adopted for these children/young people and their families.- Chapter 8 – Outcomes: How these children/young people and their families fared.- Chapter 9 - Discussion of challenges, solutions, and outcomes.- Chapter 10. Conclusions.