Actions to support older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in aged care
While the gap in life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is still signific... Read more
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration that air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’ highlights the urgent need for the industrial world to reduce the use of coal fired electricity. This poses a... Read more
Vanina Farber and Patrick Reichert write: The time for action is now – this is the mantra being taken up by Generation Z across the world. Already this year, thousands of high school students across t... Read more
Labor’s proposed ‘root and branch’ inquiry into the private health sector is looking more like a minor pruning exercise than the comprehensive review of private health care that was initially promised... Read more
The Health Wrap is back for 2019! As a way of easing readers back into work I thought I would do a round up of what happened while you were on holidays. A good place to start is with a call from Lean... Read more
Hidden in a pack of draft reports from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce that were released by the Morrison Government without fanfare just before Christmas are a series of recomme... Read more
Australia has no national minimum data set for primary health care. This means that no comprehensive, ongoing data set exists in this country that can show how and why people use and access primary he... Read more
Thank you to The Lancet for publishing a fully referenced, evidenced-based report on how to feed an increasing world population with a diet that’s both healthy and sustainable. Over two years and afte... Read more
It is now 319 days since a Tamil family, including their two Australian-born children, were removed from their home in the central Queensland town of Biloela, to be held in uncertainty in immigration... Read more
Croakey contributors and readers have less than a month to finalise a submission to an important inquiry into digital platforms that has significant implications for public health, Amy Coopes reports... Read more
Climate change, its antecedents and sequelae have been nominated as the globe’s top threat in 2019 by both the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum, with the latter warning we... Read more
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