For pandemic control, housing is the best medicine
News reports have revealed glaring inequities in management of the COVID-19 pandemic, with returned... Read more
What does the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report mean for mental health? Thoughts of an ambitious Pollyanna have come to mind for Dr Michael Robertson, Senior Research Fellow at th... Read more
Croakey welcomes feedback from readers on the report, which is available here. The consumer emphasis is welcomed by Merrilyn Walton, Assoc Prof of Medical Education at the University of Sydney. She wr... Read more
You can read the report in all its detail here, but in the meantime, here is a quick summary. The executive summary identifies several priorities, including: Indigenous health • Establish a National A... Read more
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report should be available here from about 1030 this morning. Will it go off with a big bang or a big fizz? I’m hoping for a big bang, but p... Read more
Fears about the impact of swine flu upon pregnant women are generating alarm and some confusion. And not only in Australia. In Britain, various health and medical sources have been giving the public c... Read more
We shall soon know the future, or at least how the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission would like to see the future of health care evolve in Australia. Its final report is expected to be r... Read more
Health reform efforts in the US are not only attempting to improve access, efficiency and quality of care. They are also seeking to inject greater transparency into the relationships between industry... Read more
Professor Garry Jennings, Director of the Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, has responded to recent Croakey posts raising concerns about his organisation’s close ties with industry. It s... Read more
For those with an interest in health and new media, a new book has just landed: Health Communication in the New Media Landscape, by two academics from the University of Missouri-Columbia (one from the... Read more
Following the recent post about the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute’s latest foray into pharmaceutical marketing, Croakey asked both the Baker and the NHMRC for comment. No word yet from the Ba... Read more
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