Ahead of a looming 19 April deadline for submissions on the draft National Preventive Health Strategy, a leading public health expert has urged a focus on equity and chronic disease. Profess... Read more
In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on the latest COVID-19 news, value-based healthcare and public health reforms in England. She also explores wha... Read more
In the latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell puts together a compilation of pieces looking back over the past year globally and reports on its impact on happi... Read more
The Consumers Health Forum’s Shifting Gears Summit last week saw over 800 delegates taking part in an energised discussion about the importance of consumer participation in transforming and... Read more
With Tasmanians headed to a state election on 1 May, researchers have identified some key areas for action to improve the health of communities. Members of the UTAS Anticipatory Care Researc... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Many countries have faced agonising decisions about who should access scarce health resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, but to date and due mostly to low case nu... Read more
Australia is a long way from meeting its targets for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination, according to The Guardian’s vaccine tracker project, and medical leaders are also raising conc... Read more
The Health Wrap by Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks this fortnight at the vaccination rollout, COVID and the brain, pharmacists in primary health teams, loneliness, health literacy,... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Health Minister Greg Hunt this week famously declared “the eagle has landed”, as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine touched down on Monday. He... Read more
Calls in Australia and globally for governments to enact austerity policies to claw back their outlays on COVID-19 responses should cause deep concern, according to a recent letter to The Me... Read more
