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Here is the latest compilation, covering articles posted since the beginning of the year.
The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that more than 39,000 people have visited Croakey so far this year, with about 81,000 page views. You can also see a snapshot showing the ten links that received the most hits over this period.
The links below have been grouped into these categories:
- Public health
- Global health
- Indigenous health
- Social determinants of health
- Mental health
- Primary health care and PHCRIS columns
- Rural and remote health
- Healthcare and health reform
- Social media and health
- Media and health
- Wraps of health and medical reading at The Conversation
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Public health
Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health
Ben Harris Roxas
Ensuring that research makes a difference: some practical advice
Abby Haynes
The thinking behind Drink Tank, and other public health news about alcohol
Michael Thorn
Introducing a new watchdog for alcohol marketing
Rebecca Johnson
Why Federal Cabinet should include a Minister for Food
Michael Moore and Heather Yeatman
McDonald’s programming gets roasted
Jane Martin
Fat Free TV: helping families reduce junk food viewing
Kathy Chapman, Jane Martin
Junk food promotions by Foxtel: it’s just not cricket
Mike Daube
Healthy Weight Week: what is it really promoting?
Mike Daube
A proposal for busting unhealthy workplaces
Margo Saunders
UK quit smoking campaigns come under fire
Simon Chapman
Why won’t the Federal Government support a no fault compo scheme for vaccine-related injuries?
Heath Kelly
The Grim Reaper: 25 years on, do we need another such campaign?
Daniel Reeders
Considering the health impacts of coal seam gas extraction in Queensland
Mark Bahnisch
The new Journal Watch column:
Why the world needs a “dengue day”: Journal Watch
Melissa Stoneham
What’s hot in public health journals: Germany’s role in undermining tobacco control
Melissa Stoneham
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Global health
The next head of the World Bank: critical for global public health
Gavin Mooney
Marking World TB Day with a call for urgent action on an international “health emergency”
Marianne Gale
A call for Australia to stop “stealing” health professionals from South Africa
Gavin Mooney
Doctors have good reasons for leaving South Africa
Peter Arnold
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Indigenous health
Some of the tributes for Jimmy Little from the health sector
The “Stronger Futures” legislation will weaken health
Vanessa Lee and Gabriel Moore
Reviewing the many uses for research in Closing the Gap
Neil Thomson
Tackling Indigenous smoking: can the promise be kept?
David Thomas
Constitutional recognition and Indigenous health
Pat Dudgeon
“Legally invisible”: Law reform matters for Aboriginal health
Genevieve Howse, Dave Moodie, Judith Dwyer
Using Constitutional change to improve Indigenous health
“Enrico Brik”
Some recommended reading: on research, policy, healthcare and the media
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Social determinants of health
Community connections and social capital: especially important in times of disaster
Penny Hawe
Housing policies: designed to create stress, inequity and other health and social problems
What we can learn from large-scale disasters about responding effectively to homelessness
Heather Holst
How the response to homeless people varies between Darwin, Sydney and Brisbane
Caroline Chen
What was missing from Wayne Swan’s essay in The Monthly
Fran Baum
Some health-based analysis of the Gonski review of schools funding
Stephen Leeder, Helen Keleher Jodie Doyle, Gawaine Powell Davies, David Briggs, Gavin Frost, Richard Eckerlsey, Matt Fisher
Gonski review has a lot to teach the health system: Consumers Health Forum
Carol Bennett
The Gonski review: why it matters for rural health
Gordon Gregory
What is the Danish connection between high taxes and happiness?
Gavin Mooney
Social inclusion: what is it (and why some people just don’t get it)
Matthew Thomas
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Mental health
Mental health reform: a global perspective on the barriers
Simon Tatz
Improving mental health: beyond a framework driven by health care suppliers
Matt Fisher
Mental health and asylum seekers: what the authorities don’t want to know
Harriet Spinks
Plenty of challenges and opportunities ahead for the community mental health sector
Kim Koop and Elizabeth Crowther
Making equity part of the discussion on mental health (including new publications in Indigenous mental health)
Sebastian Rosenberg, Wayne Hall, Alan Rosen, Helen Keleher, Barbara Hocking, Matt Fisher, Ian Hickie, Carol Bennett, John Mendoza, Gavin Andrews
Mental health reform roadmap needs work
Alan Rosen
Outlining some priorities for mental health reform
Jon Jureidini
Mental health funding: well targeted or just well meant?
Lesley Russell
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Primary health care and PHCRIS columns
Medicare Locals should be central to dental reform discussions
Jason Trethowan
Primary health care: when and where did it all begin?
Philip Davies
What helps GPs provide better care to patients with mental disorders? And what doesn’t?
Petra Bywood
Unpicking some of the barriers to better collaboration between health professionals involved in diabetes care
Olga Anikeeva
Improving the management of dementia in general practice
Christina Hagger
Pets, and what they do for our health
Bradley Smith
Researchers investigate ways of improving the diagnosis of ovarian cancer
Amanda Carne
Chronic health problems and depression: what matters for patients
Rachel Katterl
Helping older patients with chronic diseases to navigate the health system
Petra Bywood
Tackling the overuse of antibiotics: a call to action
Olga Anikeeva
When doctors “prescribe” exercise, does it make any difference?
Amanda Carne
Caring for country is also good for Aboriginal people
Bradley Smith
What matters in healthcare? Surrogate markers or patients?
Christina Hagger
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Rural and remote health
A survey on workplace safety that may be of interest to health professionals, teachers and police officers working in rural and remote areas
Jenny May
How to improve oral health in rural and remote areas
Gordon Gregory
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Healthcare and health reform
The next Queensland Government has some heavy lifting to do in health
Andrew Wilson
Restructuring of Queensland Health: a step in the right direction
David Briggs
Searching for the best way forward on dental reform
Amanda Biggs
All the latest news on excessive testing and treatment – the Naked Doctor strikes again
Justin Coleman
A new Croakey project: Naked Doctor, profiling overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Justin Coleman
Introducing the National Campaign for Consumer-Centred Health Care
Beyond band-aids: Medicare needs structural reform
James Gillespie, Gawaine Powell Davies, David Baker, Jane Hall
Who wants a health system designed for the better off?
Peter Sainsbury
Federal Government urged to withdraw all support for private health insurance
John Menadue, Ian McAuley
Tackling some of the tribal divisions within health
Peter Brooks
What to do about the problems caused by super specialisation in medicine?
Paul Smith
A welcome development: public disclosure of infection control performance of hospitals
Lyn Gilbert
On health reform in England, and Mr Magoo
Stephen Leeder
Is your organisation health literate? (and what does this mean, anyway)
Mae Hurley
A call to prevent needless suffering: feedback from recent palliative care event
Claire Maskell
World Cancer Day, inequities in global access to palliative care – and a film that will matter to us all, sooner or later
Claire Maskell
Hearing from the people about the need for aged care reform
Claire Maskell
A must-read: Roxon on Rudd and health reform
What did Minister Roxon achieve? Some wins. But the ambulance is still parked below the cliff
Paul Smith
Assault on alternative medicine: worthwhile or witch-hunt?
Ray Moynihan
A call for regulatory action on unregistered health practitioners
Rebecca Johnson
What makes a “Knowledgeable Patient”? On communication and other matters…
Sophie Hill
What many patients want to know, but many doctors don’t want to tell
Deborah Waterhouse, Wendy Lipworth
Where should health and medical research be heading? Now is the time for speaking up
Doug Hilton
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Social media and health
It’s time for social media to transform the health system (but where are our leaders?)
Daryl Sadgrove
If health service executives are embracing social media, what does it say?
Facebook: the future of smoking prevention for new mothers?
Caroline Chen
Using social media to engage young people in research
Yeshe Fenner
Some news on health conferences. And any ideas for this one on social media and healthcare?
Madeline Vaughan
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Media and health
What does the changing media environment mean for health reporting?
Angilee Shah
The latest media coverage of Ben Cousins has been uninformed, simplistic and unhelpful
Laurence Alvis
The ‘Biggest Loser’ eviction: a lapse is not a failure
Laurence Alvis
Do journalists actually read the research they’re reporting on?
Lyndal Byford
Media coverage of genetic technologies is of variable quality, and here is how it could be improved
Adam Carroll
Behind the alarming headlines about sleeping pills and red meat
Behind the latest news on cholesterol medications (the statins issue)
Stephen MacMahon, Amy Corderoy, Amanda Wilson
Some of the latest news on the media and health reporting
Amanda Wilson
Introducing a new online publication: the Health Reporter
Michael Riley
Doctors writing and righting the world: a Varuna event paying tribute to Dr Eric Dark
Lis Bastian
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Wraps of health and medical reading at The Conversation
Health & medical celebrations at The Conversation, plus a wrap of other health media news
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Previous Croakey wraps
January, 2012