The newly released 2019 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors study, which explores 286 causes of death in 204 countries and territories to reveal the state of the world’s hea... Read more
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
