By Kellie Bisset Putting the social determinants of health front and centre The impact of social disadvantage on healthcare and other important ‘downstream’ factors was a... Read more
By Kellie Bisset Can we avoid going to climate hell in a handbasket? As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that... Read more
Well, in case you missed it we have a new federal government. Should you have thoughts of influencing the new government’s health policy development, you may wish to consider this over... Read more
By Kellie Bisset Election fever – or is that malaise? As Australia goes to the polls, we are slightly more enlightened about the major parties’ approaches to health than we were... Read more
Well, it’s election week, and it’s time to make a decision. Disappointingly, the discussion around population health and health policy has been frustratingly brief this election... Read more
By Melissa Davey Finally, (some) health policies get an airing We’ve been hearing about boats, budgets and abolishing the carbon tax as the major parties ramp up their e... Read more
By Kellie Bisset Poll position As the election race began, and those in the healthcare sector wondered if health might get a look-in at any point during the campaign, the Mend Medicare Coali... Read more
The Health Wrap: the tobacco stain, wicked obesity problems, a new Aboriginal health vision and more
This week’s Health Wrap has been prepared by Melissa Davey, former SMH journalist, prolific tweeter and keen public health observer who has joined me at the Sax Institute in the new ro... Read more
Public health setbacks from the UK to NSW are shining a light on the influence of corporate lobbyists, as outlined in the previous post. In light of these developments, it would be useful t... Read more
It seems unlikely that health policy will be a vote-swinger at the federal election, whenever that ends up happening. As Greg Jericho (who will forever be @GrogsGamut to me) wrote today at T... Read more
