Introduction by Croakey: A new report from United Nations agencies is warning the economic impact of COVID-19 and worsening inequalities will fuel malnutrition for billions in Asia and the P... Read more
Over the past five weeks or so, Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, has been shared among participants, viewers and organisers of VicHealth’s #HealthReImagined serie... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Pandemic lockdowns have highlighted deep inequities in the ways our cities are built and used, and shown the urgent need for governments to direct stimulus funds into... Read more
Last week at Croakey’s rotational Twitter account @WePublicHealth, Dr Jason Thompson, a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Design and Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD)... 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
At last week’s Labor National Health Policy summit, talking about the “often enormous synergies” between good health policy and climate change/urban planning policies, Climate Ch... Read more
Croakey contributors have provided a wealth of useful advice for the new Victorian Labor Government and its Health Minister Jill Hennessey. Adding to this unofficial ‘incoming minister’s br... Read more
If you had to make a list of health services, would you include transport? While it might sound like an odd question, public health advocates familiar with the social determinants know the i... Read more
