Hola – I am back on deck. A large thanks to Jennifer Doggett for driving Croakey while I was away, and to Ben Harris-Roxas for looking after the Twitter feed. As previously mentioned,... Read more
It seems obvious that aged care facilities are not an appropriate place for young people, yet it appears frustratingly difficult to provide accommodation for this small but very important gr... Read more
Rebecca Gordon writes: Quitline Victoria’s successful model of collaborative care demonstrates that people with depression can quit smoking with the right support. Research recently publishe... Read more
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder, a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, writes: In recent years, hundreds of Australians have undergone a controversial procedure for spinal fractures as... Read more
If you have read the funding arrangements for Croakey, you will understand that editing this blog is, by necessity, very much a part-time activity for me. I am usually writing and editing ar... Read more
Public health policy consultant Margo Saunders writes: As a nice follow-on from Lateline’s recent discussion about the food industry’s influence on policy initiatives in Australia, the curre... Read more
This is the abstract of a study that University of Illinois researchers published recently in the journal Travel Policy. Vehicle travel and obesity rates in the United States have surged in... Read more
Below are some links to recommended reading. They cover everything from the challenged role of doctors, and the federal health budget, to inequality, AMA chest-beating, health policy –... Read more
What are the most common types of crises affecting health organisations such as hospitals, medical centres, aged care facilities, pharmacies and dental clinics? And how well are such organis... Read more
What a shock. Many others already knew, but I learnt only today of the recent death of one of Australia’s great public health advocates, Dr Trevor Beard OBE, from this obituary in the Medica... Read more
