Build back better: climate and community are critical to equity in pandemic recovery
Marie McInerney writes: Community-led responses, the need to integrate climate action and economic r... Read more
Croakey was unusually impressed when she picked up the latest Good Weekend magazine, published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, to read about a groundbreaking rehabilitation program at Hobar... Read more
Tony Abbott sure knows how to grab airtime and a headline, and has made a respectable media splash for his bid for local boards to run hospitals. But does he really understand what he’s suggesti... Read more
Following on from the previous post, Wayne Hall, Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Queensland, examines what history and research suggest might be the impact of raising the drinki... Read more
Last week, the Prime Minister intimated on national television that he would consider raising the legal drinking age to 21 if there was evidence to show this would improve road safety. Dr Alex Wodak t... Read more
Kevin Rudd presented his report card on closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage and life expectancy to Parliament today (correction, it was actually on Thurs 11th), but he got a much tougher assess... Read more
Following on from previous posts about the Marmot Review, below is a piece I wrote for the Crikey bulletin today, which asks: Why is Australia dragging the chain on health inequalities? I hope it prom... Read more
Paul Smith, political editor at Australian Doctor, has been following the story of the Australian Crime Commission’s seizure of medical records of Aboriginal people in the NT for some time. Here... Read more
What does the Marmot Review, which was released in England yesterday and sets out strategies for tackling health inequalities, mean for Australia? Ben Harris-Roxas, a health equity expert at the Unive... Read more
Croakey recently had a rather depressing thought. What if all the money, effort and carbon emissions that have been invested in health reform planning to date produce nothing more than an election pol... Read more
Yesterday an event of international significance for all concerned about health took place in England. (I don’t think that’s overstating it). Michael Marmot – who is probably best kn... Read more
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