The Australian Academy of Science has launched a publication, The Science of Immunisation, Questions and Answers, which aims to “address confusion created by contradictory information in the... Read more
People living in disadvantaged areas of New York City are gaining easier access to healthy foods, thanks to an intervention with corner stores (which are also known there as bodegas). An eva... Read more
Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has seized on Opposition plans to cut into 3,000 Medicare Locals saying it signals an Abbott government would follow the lead of state coalition governments i... Read more
The Gillard Government’s squeeze on the private health insurance rebate has revived talk of Medicare Select. That was the radical health scheme proposed by the National Health and Hos... Read more
Shadow health spokesman Peter Dutton needs to undertstand that Medicare Locals offer a healthy boost to productivity rather than being “another layer of bureaucracy”, says ML leader Arn Spro... Read more
A bleak reminder of the uncertain future of Medicare Locals comes to Croakey from two separate sources. Shadow Health Minister, Peter Dutton, says the Coalition would be prepared to target... Read more
There is a growing consensus – as evidenced by Jon Wardle’s comments on Croakey that the McKeon Review of health and medical research so far has missed the boat with respect to public healt... Read more
The chronically-ill vote too and their expanding demand for primary care services should be kept in mind at the next election. That advice comes from long time public health advocate and sch... Read more
Gary Sacks, Research Fellow, Population Health at Deakin University, writes: Denmark has scrapped the world’s first “fat tax”, which was charged on foods high in saturated fats, after just o... Read more
As the prevalence of obesity continues to balloon in Australia, infrastructure planning designed to spur community health has been one of the great missed targets of policy-makers. The growt... Read more
