As deindustrialisation gathers pace, what does this mean for the health of local communities?
Ahead of a policy symposium in Adelaide this week, examining the impact of deindustrialisation on em... Read more
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Marie McInerney writes: A palliative care doctor working in the Northern Territory has urged major changes to end of life care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly in remote... Read more
The Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition is being re-launched as a grants process, and as a joint project of the University of Wollongong, Croakey.org, and the online magazine Inside Story. The com... Read more
Almost 30 years ago, when David Hill was President of the North Sydney Bears Rugby League Football Club and a public critic of tobacco sponsorship of sport, he was disappointed by the lack of support... Read more
*** Some of the details in this article were updated on 19 September *** Since the first Indigenous doctor graduated in 1983, more than 300 other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have gone... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: It’s time for palliative care specialists and services to grapple with the reality of voluntary euthanasia and to consider what they would do when a terminally ill patien... Read more
Ahead of a policy symposium in Adelaide this week, examining the impact of deindustrialisation on employment and health, some of the researchers involved give an overview below of how this global tren... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: A clinical prediction tool is being trialed in a Sydney hospital to give doctors and families the confidence to stop “heroic” interventions like cardiopulmonary res... Read more
Please download, read and share this report compiling articles by Amy Coopes and other coverage of a recent mental health services conference: #TheMHS2017_conference_report (see the contents list belo... Read more
A themed edition of The Lancet, published today, marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, and presents the findings for 2016. Over the years, you will have seen much of... Read more
One of the recommendations of the review of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme back in 2015, was that a separate review be conducted into the current accreditation processes of our hea... Read more
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