Why is timely, coordinated access to all the sectors and services needed to maintain health and address health care needs often so hard? Is this a wicked problem, or are there examples of pr... Read more
Health services have been given much useful advice about how to make better use of the knowledge of patients and community members. In a plenary address to the recent Health Services and Pol... Read more
Could “reciprocal accountability” – a concept based upon a more equitable distribution of power between governments and Indigenous peoples – help to liberate Indigenous health se... Read more
Researchers identified many challenges and opportunities for the never-ending cycles of primary healthcare reform at the recent Health Services and Policy Research Conference in Melbourne (#... Read more
Jennifer Doggett reports: Whether it’s big or small, linked or discrete, qualitative or quantitative – data is at the centre of all health services research and has been a key theme of the #... Read more
The private health sector and many other areas of Australia’s health system are under-researched, and offer ripe pickings for health services researchers, according to presentations at the #... Read more
Jennifer Doggett reports: As well as having universal health systems, Australia and Canada have a shared history as Commonwealth nations with similar federal democratic political systems and... Read more
Jennifer Doggett writes: Professor Kathy Eagar was probably the only person at #HSR15 surprised that she was chosen as the 2015 recipient of the Health Services Research Association of Austr... Read more
Jennifer Doggett writes: There are not many issues that the broad spectrum of health stakeholders agree on, but the need for health reform is one of them. In fact, even the Government appear... Read more
Download your free copy of a 71-page report compiling coverage of the recent Tobacco Free Oceania Conference in Perth. Sincere thanks to the conference organisers for enlisting the Croakey C... Read more
