Ahead of a looming 19 April deadline for submissions on the draft National Preventive Health Strategy, a leading public health expert has urged a focus on equity and chronic disease. Profess... Read more
As the Australian Council of Social Service and other groups highlight the political risks for Government MPs of impending welfare payment cuts, the latest edition of The Health Wrap looks a... 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
Croakey readers have until 19 April to make submissions on the draft National Preventive Health Strategy. The final document is expected to be launched mid-year. Below Croakey’s Meliss... Read more
The interconnections between health literacy and equity are explored in a special themed edition of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, which includes a call to action that “now... 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
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
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
Hotel quarantine, the COVID-19 vaccine and mental health were all on the agenda when the Department of Health faced the Senate Community Affairs Committee at the estimates hearings in Canber... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: In a year dominated by the most significant global public health emergency in a century, Australia’s COVID recovery budget offered little for the sector at the... Read more
