May 2013: Partnership co-lead Chris McLeod is a recipient of a UBC Hampton Research Fund award for his project entitled “The health and well being consequences of the great recession: a comparative and cross-jurisdictional analysis.”
Hampton Fund Research Grants are designed to fund research that is short-term, interdisciplinary, and that forms a new direction in the research career of the investigator.
Dr. McLeod’s study aims to:
- Describe the effects of work-related and economic determinants on health and health inequalities during the recent recession in a representative set of high-incomes countries.
- Investigate the effect of labour market experiences related to the availability of work and to economic security on health inequalities before, during and after, the recession.
- Investigate how societal-level factors could modify or mediate these inequalities including those related to the structure of the labour market (e.g., gender, education and occupational position as modifying factors) and those related to labour market and welfare supports (e.g. unemployment benefits and welfare transfers as mediating factors).
