The pandemic has highlighted an urgent need for more timely and meaningful reporting of health data, according to Alison Verhoeven, CEO of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association... Read more
A third of all Australian prisoners were homeless before their incarceration and 40 percent have a diagnosed mental health condition, with one in three suffering a chronic illness and data s... Read more
Australia has no national minimum data set for primary health care. This means that no comprehensive, ongoing data set exists in this country that can show how and why people use and access... Read more
People from Sydney’s affluent North Shore live more than eight years longer than residents of the Northern Territory and have markedly lower rates of potentially preventable deaths acc... Read more
Australia ranks in the bottom third of the OECD for work-life balance and is performing poorly on Indigenous disadvantage, with increasing numbers of people also accessing homelessness servi... Read more
Overweight and obesity now accounts for 7% of the burden of disease in Australia, second only to smoking, and the most disadvantaged in society are the worst affected, according to a new rep... Read more
With a swathe of government reviews underway into health spending and funding, and conflict over the supremacy of primary vs tertiary care, today’s AIHW figures on expenditure by secto... Read more
There have been improvements in smoking status, diabetes management and blood pressure control, according to the AIHW’s latest report card on national primary care KPIs for Aboriginal... Read more
Croakey has been wondering what the trend towards MyWebsites – like MyHospitals, MySchool, MySuper etc – says about where Australia is heading. Is there more to us than me, mysel... Read more
Tomorrow night (Tuesday, June 22), I have the opportunity to grill the Australian of the Year, Professor Pat McGorry, at an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare function. I recently pu... Read more
