In the latest edition of the COVID wrap, public health researcher Alison Barrett reports on some recent research findings and useful resources. Suppressing the epidemic in New South Wales Mc... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell updates readers on a slew of recent reports and other articles, ranging from obesity to women’s health rig... Read more
Action to implement environmental health strategies can save lives by preventing rheumatic heart disease, says Dr Melissa Stoneham in her latest #JournalWatch column. Melissa Stoneham writes... Read more
Time to Deliver is the slogan for the so-called Third UN High-level Meeting on non communicable diseases (NCDs) to be held next week, Thursday 27 September, at the United Nations in New York... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A new report on cardiac care underscores the urgent need to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Austra... Read more
The Prevention 1st campaign this week released a scorecard on the implementation in Australia of World Health Organisation recommended interventions to reduce preventable chronic disease. Th... Read more
Cardiovascular disease is Australia’s leading cause of premature death accounting for just under a third of all national fatalities. It affects 4.2 million Australians, with another on... Read more
Tools used to predict risk individual patients’ future risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are inaccurate for use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, according to results... Read more
How does a team of public health researchers persuade a multinational corporate like Google to part with many of hundreds of thousands of dollars? Read on, to discover how Professor Clara Ch... Read more
How many health and medical organisations make it a priority to employ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and to support their development in the workplace? It’s a question worth... Read more
