While significant work remained to close the gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage across a number of critical areas, such indicators were not the full measure of wellbei... Read more
In the wake of concerning public health communications lapses and mis-steps in South Australia, the latest COVID-19 Wrap has a timely update on evidence-based communications. Public health r... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector’s responses to COVID-19 have been hailed as an exemplar of best-practice public health, preventing spread of... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Though robust evidence remains limited, the coronavirus pandemic appears to have driven shifts in alcohol and other drug use, with a recent report from the Australia... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell investigates wide-ranging challenges facing the rollout of COVID vaccines, reports on the latest news in climate... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Disability Royal Commission condemned as a “serious failure” the fact that no Australian government agency including the Department of Health made an... Read more
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed a set of national standards to provide consumers, carers, referrers and providers with benchmarks for what consti... Read more
The interconnections between planetary health and human health were under the spotlight at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s online conference today – check the Twitter... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Few Australians have been untouched by the devastation caused by the 2019-2020 bushfires. Thirty-three people lost their lives as a direct result of the fires, more... Read more
Reporting on disasters has always been fraught for journalists, and the people and communities they report on – and these issues are likely only to intensify as we experience increasing disa... Read more
