When the Greater Metro South Brisbane Medicare Local decided to prioritise action on the social determinants of health, this led to an innovative partnership that has translated into much-ne... Read more
Health services and organisations interested in using social media to connect with Aboriginal people and communities have much to learn from Luke Pearson, an Aboriginal education consultant... Read more
The National Primary Health Care Conference has just wrapped up in Adelaide, and you can get an idea of some of the wide-ranging discussions from the #nphcc Twitter stream. One of the obviou... Read more
Medical students and their supporters have been running a very active social media campaign around the #interncrisis. They’ve also established a website telling the stories of medical stude... Read more
Associate Professor James Gillespie writes: Croakey contributors have recently been debating the impact of the Rudd/Gillard health reforms. A recent survey of public opinion on attitudes to... Read more
Experiences of racism in health services are a significant barrier to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people receiving appropriate healthcare. The health system needs to be more proact... Read more
An Australian academic was recently asked by an overseas colleague to nominate major health policy or system innovations that have had a positive impact on health care access, quality, outco... Read more
What is it like to grow up poor in Australia? We learnt something about this from a recent Four Corners program investigating the experiences and perspectives of children from the disadvanta... Read more
Mike Daube, Professor of Health Policy at Curtin University, and other public health experts have been sounding the alarm about the Queensland Government’s efforts to gag health and communit... Read more
As many of you will know, the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs is currently conducting an inquiry into Australia’s domestic response to the World Health Organization... Read more
