Marie McInerney writes: Former Labor Health Minister Nicola Roxon has urged Australian governments to respond to the early lessons of the coronavirus pandemic by investing in the foundations... Read more
A new report demonstrates that the current global health system is failing to embrace gender diversity and respond to gender inequalities. The Power, privilege and priorities: global health... Read more
Social prescribing is popular with both doctors and patients but the infrastructure and funding are lacking, according to a new report calling for the practice to become a routine part of pr... 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
The Coalition on Tuesday pledged to invest $5 million to establish a National Dust Diseases Taskforce to develop a national approach for the prevention, early identification, control and man... Read more
The 15th National Rural Health Conference taking place in nipaluna/Hobart this week has had a strong focus on planetary health, with calls for health professionals to engage with this sustai... Read more
Despite the concerted campaign run by the global #IndigenousNCDs movement in recent months, the UN Political Declaration on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was... 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
Marie McInerney reports: The health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents is lagging behind that of their non-Indigenous peers because their needs differ substan... Read more
This fortnight’s Health Wrap, compiled by Sax Institute Publications Manager Megan Howe, takes a look at how the media covered three of the top public health stories that have been making he... Read more
