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 Sukhan Jackson


John Asafu
Room: 612 Colin Clark Building, St Lucia
Phone: +61 7 3365 6609
Email: s.jackson@economics.uq.edu.au
   
   
Qualifications

BA Hons (Malaya); GradCert Ed (Hull); PhD (Griffith)

Profile

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Postgraduate Coursework Program Advisor for the following: Master of Economics, Master of Business Economics, Master of International Economics and Finance, Graduate Diploma in Economics, Graduate Certificate in Economics and Master of Health Economics.

Deputy Director of the Graduate Program in Health Economics

Teaching
Semester 1: ECON2810 Industrial Relations
  ECON2510 Development Economics
   
Semester 2: ECON2460 Health Economics
ECON7840 Health and Economic Development
   
Coordinator: ECON7920, ECON7930, ECON7940 and ECON7850
Research Areas Health Economics
Economic Development and Growth
Selected Publications
  • Xiaoyun Sun, Sukhan Jackson, Gordon Carmichael and Adrian C. Sleigh (2009) Prescribing Behaviour of Village Doctors under China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme, Social Science and Medicine. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.043

  • Xiaoyun Sun, Sukhan Jackson, Gordon Carmichael, Adrian C. Sleigh (2009) “Catastrophic medical payment and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Co-operative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province”, Health Economics, Vol. 18 Issue 1 (January): 103-119
     
  • Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Wang Guo-Jie and Liu Xi-Li (2007) “Migration for work and tuberculosis disease in rural China: case study of Henan Province” in Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth, Marika Vicziany, editors. Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute Press. pp 135-147.
     
  • Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Wang Guo-Jie & Xi-Li Liu (2006)  “Poverty and the economic effects of TB in rural ChinaInternational Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases,Vol 10 No.10 (October): 1104-1110
     
  • Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Wang Guojie and Liu Xi-Li (2006) “Household poverty, off-farm migration and pulmonary tuberculosis in rural Henan, China”, in Sleigh A, Chee HL, Phua KH, Safman R, Yeoh B, editors. Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia. London: World Scientific, pp. 231-244
     
  • Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Li Peng, Liu Xi-Li (2005) “Health finance in rural China: low premium insurance compared to the out-of-pocket system in Henan Province” The China Quarterly, No. 181(March): 137-157
     
  • Wang Guojie, Adrian Sleigh, Zhou Gang, Sukhan Jackson, Liu Xi-Li (2005) "Non-biological risk factors of pulmonary tuberculosis among adults in Henan: a case-control study" Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 26 No. 2: 92-96 (in Chinese language).
     
  • Adrian C. Sleigh and Sukhan Jackson (2004) “Socio-economic and health impacts of hydropower resettlement projects” in Cleveland CJ (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopedia of Energy, 2004 Vol 3: 315-323, Academic Press Reference Series www.sciencedirect.com and ISBN 0-12-176480-X
     
  • Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh & Liu Xi-Li (2002) “Cost of malaria control in China. Henan’s consolidation program from community and government perspectives” Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Vol. 80 No. 8: 653-659. http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2002/bul-8-E-2002/bu1154.pdf
     
  • Sukhan Jackson, Adrian Sleigh & Xi-Li Liu (2002) Economics of Malaria Control in China: Cost, Performance and Effectiveness of Henan’s Consolidation Programme.  Research monograph No. 1 for UNPD/World Bank/WHO: Geneva. http://www.who.int/tdr/topics/social-research/default.htm
     
  • Nerina Vecchio & Sukhan Jackson (2002) "Home and community care and the principle of self-reliance: implications for older Australians" Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 8 No. 2:183-199.
     
  • Adrian C Sleigh & Sukhan Jackson (2001) "Dams, development and health: a missed opportunity", The Lancet, Vol. 357, 24 February: 570-571
     
  • Sukhan Jackson & Adrian C. Sleigh (2001) "Political economy and socio-economic impact of China's Three Gorges Dam" Asian Studies Review, Vol. 25, No.1 (March): 57-72.
     
  • Nerina Vecchio, Sukhan Jackson & Ross Guest (2001) "Determinants of socioeconomic status of the aged on Queensland's Gold Coast. Does gender matter?" Economic Papers, Vol. 20 No. 3 September: 43-58.
     
  • Sukhan Jackson & Adrian C. Sleigh (2000) "Resettlement for China's Three Gorges Dam: socio-economic impact and institutional tensions", Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 33: 223-241