This report quantifies the cost of allergic disease in Australia by the economic and wellbeing impact of allergic disease on the person with allergic disease, the broader health system, the economy and the community. In 2024, it is estimated that allergic disease impacts approximately 8.2 million Australians, with an estimated total financial cost of $18.9...

Seven per cent of Australian adults report avoiding wheat products for the relief of symptoms. The objective of this study was to explore the experiences, symptoms, influences and beliefs that may explain the tendency for this behaviour to occur pre-dominantly in the absence of a reported medical diagnosis or expert dietary supervision.

In 2010-11, Australia accepted 13,799 refugees. However, there has been little research into the experiences that families from refugee backgrounds have with Australia’s child and family health services. The child and family health service plays a vital role in linking refugee families to communities and services more broadly. Research into refugee families and their engagement...

It is well established that the vulnerable groups in our society (those who need our services the most), access services the least. This was first termed the ‘inverse care law’ (Hart, 1971) in 1971 and remains true today. It is also widely accepted that these groups commonly suffer the worst outcomes, be they Aboriginal or...

There has been much confusion in recent years regarding the terminology used to describe allergic reactions, particularly food reactions. The World Allergy Organisation Nomenclature Review Committee has proposed the following nomenclature. The term food hypersensitivity is used to describe any adverse reaction to a food and encompasses the two distinctly different pathologies of: Food allergy...