Sir Michael Marmot: When the pandemic crashed down, we were not well prepared as a society
Introduction by Croakey: The coronavirus pandemic has both exposed and amplified inequalities in soc... Read more
Last week The Australian newspaper splashed with this story about a “green diet push” which accused the National Health and Medical Research Council, which is currently developing new national dietary... Read more
Western Australia has so far been the standout in refusing to do a deal with the Feds on national health reform. While this has been widely attributed to the partisan politics involved, perhaps there... Read more
Members of the Crikey Health and Medical Panel (CHAMP) recently made dozens of wide-ranging suggestions for what should be included in the forthcoming MyHospitals website. The post drew this comment f... Read more
It is just a few weeks since Croakey wondered whether the policy failures in bowel cancer screening would be an election issue. In light of health policy’s noticeable absence from the election c... Read more
The previous Croakey post noted the glaring absence of health from the election campaign. If voters are hanging on health policy discussion to determine how they swing, tonight’s non-debate offers no... Read more
It’s not so long ago that most observers were assuming health would be a prominent election issue. No sign of this yet, apart from a plan by the Greens for a tax on junk food and alcohol adverti... Read more
Could physician assistants (PAs) help fill the workforce gaps in rural, remote and Indigenous health, and improve access to healthcare for under-served communities? Minister Warren Snowdon seems to th... Read more
From next month, Australians will be able to search a MyHospitals website to find out information about public hospitals, according to recent statements from Health Minister Nicola Roxon and the Austr... Read more
The former editor of the BMJ, Dr Richard Smith, recently recommended ten lessons for global health, including that the rich can learn from developing countries. He wrote that there are many examples o... Read more
The recent spate of alarming headlines about youth mental health needs to be put into perspective, says Melissa Raven, an adjunct lecturer in public health from Flinders University. Things may not be... Read more
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