Avendano Mauricio
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Axes de recherche
L'impact des politiques publiques sur la santé et les inégalités
My research examines how public policies, social transformations and health systems contribute to health inequalities between and within countries. My research has shown that public policies in education, pensions, long-term care systems, health care insurance, poverty, employment and urban planning shape physical and mental health and contribute to health inequalities. My work is interdisciplinary and at the crossroads between epidemiology and public health, economics, demography, sociology and public policy. Based on longitudinal data and cohort studies, I use uses quasi-experimental designs, natural experiments and randomised controlled trials to study the causal impact of public policies.
Les implications du vieillissement de la population pour la société et les politiques publiques
Population ageing poses major challenges for both society and public policy. My research aims to understand the social, economic and health implications of population ageing, with a particular focus on understanding how policy reforms in response to ageing affects the health and well-being of older people. This includes examining how policy reforms to increase retirement age, change eligibility rules for long-term services, and alter the built environment influence the health and quality of life of older people. I was involved in the development and implementation of the health module of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for several years, and much of my research is based on a linkage of data on historical policy reforms to data on SHARE and other ageing studies to study the health impact of policies. I am also interested in understanding systematic differences in healthy ageing associated economic circumstances, social connections, and intergenerational family exchanges.
Pauvreté et santé mentale
Poverty is associated with poorer mental health, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are not yet understood. My research aims to disentangle the causal mechanisms linking poverty and mental health, by studying how policies that aim to reduce poverty, such as conditional cash transfer programmes, vocational training programmes and employment support programmes, impact the mental health of families and children. A focus on anti-poverty interventions is motivated by an interest to isolate the causal effect of poverty on mental health, but also by the need to identify how anti-poverty efforts may have unintended consequences for mental health. Recent projects focus on testing, through a multi-country RCT, the hypothesis that incorporating mental health interventions within poverty reduction efforts may maximise the impact of poverty interventions on social, economic and mental health outcomes.
Projets
Projets FNS
Projet ALIFE: Améliorer la santé mentale des adolescents en réduisant l'impact de la pauvreté
Most of the world's adolescents live in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), where poverty levels are high, and there are few effective interventions to prevent depression and anxiety. Poverty influences adolescent depression and anxiety both directly, and through its effect on self-regulation. The ALIFE project is funded by the Wellcome Trust Foundation and aims to develop and conduct a small pilot evaluation of an intervention that both addresses poverty and strengthens self-regulation among adolescents living in urban poverty in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa. We aim to eventually test whether the anti-poverty component or the self-regulation component, or both combined are most effective in preventing adolescent depression and anxiety in low-and-middle-income countries LMIC. It also adapts and validates key measurement instruments, to assess how the intervention is delivered, how much it costs, the way in which it works and its effect. Our pilot evaluation will allow us to test all the procedures required for a future large randomised controlled trial.
Projet IN-CARE: Comment les différents systèmes de soins sont-ils associés aux inégalités en matière de soins et de bien-être chez les personnes âgées ?
Professor Avendano is co-investigator in the In-Care project, which investigates whether and how different long-term care systems and recent reforms of long-term care within Europe and Japan are related to socioeconomic differences in the use of formal and informal care, health and well-being in later life. The study of specific characteristics of long-term care interventions provides theoretical evidence on inequalities in family, health and well-being in two ways. We explore which specific national policies implicitly or explicitly support family care and evaluate empirically whether such policies contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in family care. It investigates whether the health outcomes and well-being con¬se¬quences of socioeconomic inequalities in older adults are related to key factors in long-term care. This should allow for a better understanding of the con¬se¬quences of different care strategies for inequalities in care, health and well-being in later life and for targeted policy interventions.
Autres projets
L'impact de politiques publiques sur la santé
Professor Avendano's research examines how public policies, social transformations and health systems contribute to health inequalities between and within countries. His research has shown that public policies in education, pensions, long-term care systems, health care insurance, poverty, employment and urban planning shape physical and mental health and contribute to health inequalities. His work is interdisciplinary and at the crossroads between epidemiology and public health, economics, demography, sociology and public policy. Based on longitudinal (panel) data, his research uses quasi-experimental designs, natural experiments and randomised controlled trials to establish the causal impact of public policies.
