Rosemary Korda
B App Sci (Lincoln Institute), M App Sci (La Trobe), Grad Dip Pop Health, PhD (ANU)
Postdoctoral Fellow, ACERH (ANU)
T: +61 2 6125 5583
E: Rosemary.Korda@anu.edu.au

Rosemary Korda is an epidemiologist, with a particular interest in health inequalities. Her PhD thesis was on socioeconomic inequalities in health care in Australia. This research examined the impact of health care on inequalities in mortality and quantified inequalities in the use of ambulatory and high-technology inpatient health care.

Her current research interests include:

• Income inequality and health
• Inequalities in health care use and in health care-related outcomes
• Understanding factors related to private health insurance
• Projecting the impacts of hepatitis B in Australia
• Obesity and hospitalisation

Her work mainly involves the analysis of large datasets, including longitudinal survey data, linked administrative health data and unit record mortality data.

Selected Publications:

Korda R, Clements M and Kelman C, “Socioeconomic inequalities in the distribution of coronary procedures in patients with ischaemic heart disease”, (Conference Abstract), Australasian Epidemiologist , Vol.14 No.3, August 2007, p.79.

Korda RJ, Butler JR, Clements MS and Kunitz SJ, “Differential impacts of health care in Australia: trend analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality”, International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol.36 No.1, February 2007, pp.157-65.

Strazdins L, Clements M, Korda RJ, Broom DH and D'Souza RM, “Unsociable work? Nonstandard work schedules, family relationships and child wellbeing", Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol.68 No.2, May 2006, pp.394-410.

Korda RJ and Butler JRG, “Effect of healthcare on mortality: Trends in avoidable mortality in Australia and comparisons with Western Europe”, Public Health, Vol.20 No.2, February 2006, pp.95-105.

Korda RJ and Butler JR, “Trends in pneumonia rates explained by changes in coding practices”, Internal Medicine Journal, Vol.35 No.2, February 2005, pp.138-9.

Butler JRG, Pianko S, Korda RJ, Nguyen S, Gow P, Roberts SK, Strasser SI, and Sievert W, "The direct cost of managing patients with chronic hepatitis B infection in Australia", Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology , Vol.38 No.10, November/December 2004, pp.S187-S192.

Korda RJ and Butler JRG, “The impact of health care on mortality: Time trends in avoidable mortality in Australia 1968-2001”, Working Paper Number 49, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, August 2004 (download).

Strazdins L, Korda RJ, Lim LL-Y, Broom DH and D'Souza RM, “Around-the-clock: parent work schedules and children's well-being in a 24-h economy”, Social Science and Medicine, Vol.59 No.7, October 2004, pp.1517-27.

Korda RJ, Strazdins L, Broom DH and Lim L L-Y, “Health of the Australian workforce: 1998-2001”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol.26 No.4, August 2002, pp,325-31.