New report on health promotion – from #HealthReimagined. Download your free copy
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
New report on health promotion – from #HealthReimagined. Download your free copy
Please download, read and share this 119-page report compiling our coverage from VicHealth’s five-part webinar series, Life and Health Re-imagined. It covers: How can we reshape work to bene... Read more
Five public health lessons from coronavirus
Introduction by Croakey: Tomorrow marks six months since Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced that Victorian health authorities had confirmed Australia’s first case of novel coronavir... Read more
#HealthReImagined snapshot: a Twitter takeaway on food, work, cities, equity and prevention
Over the past five weeks or so, Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, has been shared among participants, viewers and organisers of VicHealth’s #HealthReImagined serie... Read more
The Health Wrap: food costs, oral health and aged care, drug and alcohol use – and coronavirus vaccine news
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell investigates progress in coronavirus vaccine development, an aged care program called Senior Smiles, and the latest in a long line... Read more
Bouncing back: how to use the lessons of pandemic to build a better tomorrow
With COVID-19 devastating lives and livelihoods around the globe, health experts are looking for lessons for a better, more equitable tomorrow, where food and job security, people-focused ur... Read more
Prevention, promotion and the pandemic: where next?
Marie McInerney writes: Former Labor Health Minister Nicola Roxon has urged Australian governments to respond to the early lessons of the coronavirus pandemic by investing in the foundations... Read more
Amid global chaos, what is the future for prevention?
Former Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon will join a panel of experts discussing ‘where next for prevention’, at a webinar this week hosted by VicHealth as part of its Life an... Read more
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 recovery, and a determination to not go back to ‘business as usual’ are key to addressing s... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The coronavirus pandemic has both exposed and amplified inequalities in society, including the deadly toll of harmful government policies and structural racism, acco... Read more