A national survey of community attitudes around violence towards women was launched this morning in Melbourne. Among its many findings are that in 2009, one in 20 people believe women who ar... Read more
Today, dear reader, has been declared World Health Day. The World Health Organisation is asking us to be “part of a global movement to make cities healthier”. Meanwhile, the inau... Read more
Last week, Professor Alan Rosen wrote an open letter to the PM, calling for health reform to be less hospital-centric and more focused on the provision of community-based care. Now he and a... Read more
The Sydney Morning Herald splashed with a yarn on Saturday warning that “helicopter parents not doing enough to let children fail”. Dr Suzy Green, Co-Founder of the Positive Psychology Insti... Read more
In March 2006, a national snapshot was undertaken of Australian hospital mental health units. Not all jurisdictions participated, and the findings were never published. However, as you can r... Read more
Further to the previous post on today’s announcement of reforms to diabetes care, Professor Mark Harris, Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the Univ... Read more
Today’s joint announcement by Health Ministers Rudd and Roxon, aiming to improve the care of diabetes patients, has drawn a mixed reaction from the usual suspects. The AMA and the rura... Read more
There are so many reasons why we can get a misleading, and often overly positive, view of the impact of treatments. One reason is publication bias, which refers to the fact that studies repo... Read more
Trying to make sense of the plans for US health care reform is a bit like, as one observer told Croakey, “snorkelling through mud”. Below are some links to articles that fill in some of the... Read more
Governments that want to improve health should focus their efforts on community-based care rather than just on hospitals. That is the crux of new article, titled “The future of communi... Read more
