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Information and Advocacy Tools
If you find the research we do useful for organisational development and/or advocacy purposes, we encourage you to share it within your workplace and your broader networks.
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Organisational Development
Workplace Policy Intersections
This diagram illustrates the breadth of organisational policies that are relevant to managing chronic illness in the workplace. The policy map is particularly useful for organisations that are at the early stages of understanding the impact of chronic illness on their business, and want to ensure that their policies are inclusive for people living with long-term health conditions.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
Dynamics of Workplace Disclosure
This diagram identifies some of the often invisible dynamics at play during the illness disclosure process. It explores factors that influence a worker's decision to disclose illness to their manager, and the factors that may influence how that disclosure is received.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
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Chronic Illness Lifecycle Stressors
This graphic illustrates some of the key stressors that impact the lives of people with chronic illness over the lifecycle.
The private sphere (orange zone) is indicative of the kind of stressors that often play out internally for individuals and can remain hidden in the workplace. The work sphere (blue zone) is indicative of the stressors that can become most apparent in the workplace.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
Employer Benefits of Illness Disclsoure
Chronic illness disclosure is often framed around the benefits to employees wellbeing, however, this graph highlights some of the significant benefits for employers when workers disclose their illness.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
MADE Model
The MADE Model is a simple tool that can help inform managerial decision-making when it comes to supporting employees with chronic illness. Possible pathways for action are based on an employees level of functional impairment, self-knowledge regarding their illness and its impact on work ability.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
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Chronic Illness Maturity Model
The Chronic Illness Maturity Model is a useful tool to benchmark your organisation's current level of awareness and also it's future aspiration, when it comes to managing chronic illness in the workplace.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
Chronic Illness @Work Graphic Shorts
Cultural Value has produced a series of graphic shorts (based on our research), that articulate people's experience of living with chronic illness in the workplace.
Graphic short #1 captures people's fears about how work colleagues might react to a disclosure of illness.
Source: Cultural Value, 2024
Chronic Illness Statistics
Chronic Illness Prevalence
These graphs show the prevalence of chronic conditions and long-term health conditions amongst Australians who are employed.
Data source: ABS, National Health Survey, 2022
Chronic Illness x Age
This graph illustrates the trajectory of chronic conditions by age. It shows how mental health and behavioural disorders (purple line) buck the trend of chronic illness increasing with age.
Data source: ABS, National Health Survey, 2022
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Chronic Illness & Labour Force Participation
This series of graphs looks at historical trends of labour force participation by people who live with chronic illness, and the impediments they face to entering the labour market.
It also shows that the primary incentive to encourage more people with chronic conditions into the labour market is the availability of part-time work.
Data source: ABS, Labour Force Survey (Annual), 2023
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