Staff profile

Dr Ruth F.G. Williams

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

School of Economics

Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BA, BEcon, DipEd, ATCL, MEconSt, PhD (The University of Queensland)

Membership of professional Associations

Economic Society of Australia

Area of study

Economics

Brief Profile

 Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian Institute for Suicide Prevention and Research (AISRAP), Griffith University

 

Teaching Units

ECO1IMA Macroeoconomics

ECO1MI  Microeconomics

ECO1CEP Contemporary Economic Problems

ECO2GE Government and the Economy

ECO2IM Intermediate Microeconomics

Recent Publications

 

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel D.P. (2012), "Mental Health Services are Different: Economic and Policy Effects", in L’Abate L (ed) Mental Illness- Evaluation, Treatments and Implications, In-Tech, pp.171-190. (ISBN 978-953-307-645-4).

Doessel, D.P. and Williams, Ruth F.G. (2011), “Resource Misallocation in Australia’s Mental Health Sector under Medicare: Evidence from Time-series Data”, Economic Papers, Vol.30 No. 2, pp. 253-64.

Doessel, D.P., Tonk, U. and Williams, Ruth F.G. (2011), “The Economic Structure of the Mental Health Sector: Australia since 1992-93”, International Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 25-54

Doessel, D.P. and Williams, Ruth F.G. (2011), “The ‘Rise and Rise’ of New Professional Groups: Mental Health Professions under Medicare”, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 97-126.

Doessel, D.P. and Williams, Ruth F.G. (2011), “Disabled People's Living Standards: Filling a Policy Vacuum”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 341-57.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P. (2011), “An Economic Classification of ‘Health Need’ “, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 291-309.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P.; (2010), “Psychiatry Interacts with Contemporary Western Views: the DSM-III Innovation and its Adverse Effects”, Prometheus, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 245-266.

Doessel, D.P. and Williams, Ruth F.G. (2010), “The Economic Argument for a Policy of Suicide Prevention”, Suicidology Online, 1: 66-75.

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Robertson, R.R. (2010), “Changes in the Inequality of Mental Health: Suicide in Australia, 1907-2003”, Health, Economics, Policy and Law, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 23-42.

Williams, Ruth F.G., Doessel, D.P., Sveticic and De Leo, D. (2010), “The Accuracy of Official Suicide Mortality Data in Queensland”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 44, pp. 815-22

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Whiteford, H. (2010), “Structural Imbalance and Resource Shortage in the Australian Mental Health Sector”, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 3-12.

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Whiteford, H. (2010), “The Trend in Mental Health-related Mortality Rates in Australia 1916-2004: Implications for Policy”, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 7: 3, http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/7/1/3

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Whiteford, H. (2009), “Deinstitutionalisation and Managerialism in Queensland’s Public Hospitals: Challenging ‘Rhetoric’ with Empirical Results”, Australasian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 459-83.

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Whiteford, H. (2009), “The Appropriate Measure of Suicide for Policy Analysis: A Comparison of Headcount and PYLL Rates in Australia 1907—2005”, Archives of Suicide Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 87—99.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P. (2009), “Is Mental Health Improving? Some Initial Evidence from Australia”, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 131—136.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P. (2009), “Regional Inequalities in Australian Private Psychiatric Services Utilisation, 1984-2001”, Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 18, No. 3.

Williams, Ruth F.G. (2009), “Review Article: ‘Everyday Sorrows are not Mental Disorders’: the Clash between Psychiatry and Western Cultural Habits”, Prometheus, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 47—70.

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Whiteford, H. (2009), “A Reassessment of Suicide Measurement: Some Comparative PYLL-Based Trends in Queensland, Australia, 1920-2005”, Crisis, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 6—12.

Doessel, D.P., Williams, Ruth F.G. and Nolan P. (2008), A Central Dilemma in the Mental Health Sector: Structural Imbalance”, Clinical Psychologist, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 57—66.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P. (2008), “The Australian Mental Health System: an Economic Overview and Some Research Issues”, International Journal of Mental Health Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, 14 May 2008.

Doessel, D.P. and Williams, Ruth F.G. (2008), “The Simple Analytics of Illicit Drug Policy”, The Australian Economic Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 239—49.

Williams, Ruth F.G. (2007), “Community Mental Health Services as a Process Innovation: Appropriate Economic Evaluation”, Prometheus, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 393—414.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P. (2007), “The Gross Prices of Private Fee-for-Service Psychiatric Services under Medicare in Six Australian Regions 1984-2001”, Economic Papers, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 86-101.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P. (2007), “The Role of Knowledge Accumulation in Health and Longevity: the Puzzling Case of Suicide”, Prometheus, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 283-303.

Williams, Ruth F.G., Doessel, D.P., Scheurer, R.W. and Whiteford, H. (2006), “Some Economic Dimensions of the Mental Health Jigsaw”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 808—831.

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P (2006), “Measuring Inequality: Tools and an Illustration”, International Journal of Equity in Health, Vol. 5, No. 5, www.equityhealthj.com/content/5/1/5

Williams, Ruth F.G. and Doessel, D.P (2006), “A Report on Economic Studies of Australian Mental Health Issues”, Australasian Psychiatry, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 141-45 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1440-1665.2006.02258.x