Dr Karen Price, President of the Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP), presented a master class on primary care and the use of GIFs in public health communications last week at Croakey’s... Read more
As we recently reported, a draft of the Preventive Health Strategy has been released for comment, with submissions due by April 19. Below, Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director of the Climate... 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
Introduction by Croakey: Victoria’s second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected the most vulnerable members of its population, a parliamentary inquiry has found. The Pub... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Australia’s diverse communities will require specific strategies to get the right message out about the benefits and safety of COVID-19 vaccinations. Clear communica... Read more
The Health Wrap by Associate Professor Lesley Russell returns for 2021 with a big review of 2020 and the lessons to be learnt from the coronavirus pandemic, plus a close look at vaccines and... Read more
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell raises questions about the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines, reviews some pandemic communications lessons, and r... Read more
COVID-19 slashed health-care use by more than one-third across the globe. But the news isn’t all bad
From early in the pandemic health authorities have been warning Australians not to neglect their regular health care, amid a worrying decline in screening for breast, bowel and cervical canc... Read more
The Federal Government’s refusal to enable access to Medicare funding to the overwhelmingly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth detainees at Darwin’s Don Dale Detention Centre calls... Read more
