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Real-time wrap of the #CroakeyREAD conversations and news (part three)

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: #CroakeyREAD teamon: June 22, 2018In: #CroakeyREAD, public health

And here is the third and final part of our rolling coverage of #CroakeyRead discussions about health, books and reading, with this fabulous program of guest tweeters. (Check out part one and part two... Read more

Real-time wrap of the #CroakeyREAD conversations and news (part two)

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: #CroakeyREADon: June 22, 2018In: #CroakeyREAD

Welcome to part two of our rolling coverage of #CroakeyRead discussions about health, books and reading with this fabulous program of guest tweeters. (Check out part one). Writing to influence health... Read more

Real-time wrap of the #CroakeyREAD conversations and news (part one)

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: #CroakeyRead teamon: June 21, 2018In: #CroakeyREAD, Croakey longreads, environmental health, Indigenous health, public health, Public health and population health

Welcome to our first ever #CroakeyREAD event. We will be updating this post overnight. The conversations kicked off at 6.30pm with introductions and acknowledgements, ahead of this fabulous program of... Read more

Australia warned on the ‘chronic disease time bomb’ – but what about the underlying causes?

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Prevention 1st, Sharon Frielon: June 21, 2018In: cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases, diabetes, food and nutrition, Global health and climate change, Health in All Policies, Healthcare and health reform, obesity, physical activity, plain packaging, prevention, public health, Public health and population health, social determinants of health, sugar tax, tobacco control, WHO

The Prevention 1st campaign this week released a scorecard on the implementation in Australia of World Health Organisation recommended interventions to reduce preventable chronic disease. The Preventi... Read more

5 reasons to endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart, on health grounds alone.

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Ruth Armstrong and the Croakey teamon: June 21, 2018In: Indigenous health, Public health and population health, Uluru Statement

Croakey is urging the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition to recommend that the Australian Government acts now to accept the recommendations of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. In... Read more

Medical groups add to calls for dying Nauru refugee, as US offers stark parallel

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Carrie Leeon: June 20, 2018In: asylum seeker health, disasters, Global health and climate change, pain, palliative care, public health

Croakey intro: Leading medical groups have added to calls urging the Australian Government to bring an Afghan refugee with advanced lung cancer from Nauru to Australia for palliative care. Nearly 2,00... Read more

AMA urges broader health, medical support for Uluru Statement from the Heart

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Tony Bartoneon: June 20, 2018In: Indigenous health, Public health and population health, Uluru Statement

The Australian Medical Association is urging other medical and health organisations to also endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart to enable healing and underpin efforts to improve Aboriginal and... Read more

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health – it’s time to reset

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Summer May Finlayon: June 19, 2018In: #IndigenousHealthSummit, Croakey Conference News Service, Healthcare and health reform, Indigenous health, Public health and population health, rural and remote health

The need for new ways of working and for government agencies to make space so Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can lead the conversations on health and wellbeing is the focus of a major na... Read more

Join us on an all-nighter this week – CroakeyREAD

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: #CroakeyREADon: June 19, 2018In: #CroakeyREAD, Croakey news and projects

The Croakey News team invites you to join us in a celebration of books on the winter solstice this Thursday overnight; come online at #CroakeyREAD and join conversations with writers and readers from... Read more

On the personal toll for Indigenous advocates and people when governments fail to act

Editor: Marie McInerneyAuthor: Eddie Cubilloon: June 18, 2018In: #NTRC, Indigenous health, NT Intervention, racism, trauma

The Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory laid bare systemic and shocking failures in the treatment of mostly Aboriginal children and young people i... Read more