In the latest Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell takes a deep dive into whether the Federal Government is meeting its promise to provide more affordable medicines, seeking to get behind the payw... Read more
This is the second in a two-part @WePublicHealth series from a road trip taken by Croakey’s Dr Ruth Armstrong in the United States. See the first post as she travelled through Texas and Loui... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell covers new reports on mental health, Indigenous oral health, and My Health Record, and also provides a timely pr... Read more
If the entire population of Perth could not access a dentist it would be considered a major health crisis. Yet new research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has found that in 2... Read more
Newstart recipients are not only more likely to suffer ill health than other Australians but then struggle to get the treatment they need, according to the Consumers Health Forum of Australi... Read more
(This post was updated on 30 September with comments from the Australian Health Promotion Association and more tweets.) Health Minister Greg Hunt has responded to criticism that nurses were... Read more
During the recent Dental Health Week, the Australian Dental Association put the spotlight firmly on individual behaviours, urging regular brushing, flossing, visits to the dentists and consu... Read more
In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell shares some of the latest news in mental health and oral health, amongst other things. Lesley Russell writes: In the pa... Read more
Could our political leaders develop economic policies aimed at achieving better health, social and environmental outcomes? Could we develop a food system based on principles of health and en... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Greens health policies have received the highest rating in an assessment by the Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia that spans eight domains, including co... Read more
