In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on important pandemic publications, extols the benefits of physical activity and high quality primary care, and... Read more
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has called on health leaders to be “open to new data and new science” in the fight against COVID-19 and other looming existential threa... Read more
The $2.3 billion commitment to mental health in last week’s Federal Budget has been widely welcomed as a major step towards fixing Australia’s broken mental health system but the task ahead... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A significant new report — COVID-19: Make it the last pandemic — has blamed a “toxic cocktail” of failures, errors and inequalities that have turned the... Read more
Croakey readers can download the Department of Health Budget Briefing Pack here. This post wraps reaction to the Federal Budget on foreign aid, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from exp... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The “shocking global disparity” in access to vaccines remains one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s Director-G... Read more
The Coalition has delivered its eighth and biggest spending Federal Budget since its election in 2013. But will the record $503 billion (over four years) health spending deliver record benef... Read more
Croakey readers can download the Department of Health Budget Briefing Pack here. This post wraps reaction to the Federal Budget from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, Publ... Read more
As recently reported at Croakey, some wide-ranging suggestions for promoting health equity are proposed in a new publication from The Medical Journal of Australia, sponsored by VicHealth, ti... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The recent National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Conference (NATSIEHC) 2021 — The Gap and Beyond, had a welcome and critical focus on community-l... Read more
