Continuing our rolling coverage of the #AusVotesHealth Twitter festival, which includes some alarming analysis on the health gaps between rural/remote and urban Australians, and a ten-point... Read more
Earlier this month, The Australian’s health editor, Sean Parnell, wrote an interesting news article, based on the minutes of a Government-convened workshop that occurred in December. One ite... Read more
Glynis Johns writes: On the 29th April 2016, in the seaside village of Stansbury on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, one thousand tearful faces turned skywards as a Royal Flying Doctor Se... Read more
Participants in the 4th Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium in Canberra last week committed to a National Strategy and Action Plan for maximising the value of rural and remote healt... Read more
Jennifer Doggett writes: In the era of Facebook and over-sharing on social media do we need to be as vigilant about protecting individual health information as we have in the past? The tensi... Read more
Jennifer Doggett writes: Which regions of Australia have the highest rate of low birth-weight babies? Are males in regional and remote areas more at risk of mental illness than those in citi... Read more
Jennifer Doggett writes: It’s a scenario familiar to anyone used to attending health conferences and workshops: a presenter gets up and talks about a problem they are trying to solve in the... Read more
