In this recent Crikey article, I reported that many health and medical experts are alarmed about the likely impact of new requirements for NT health professionals to report all under-age teenage patients they suspect of being sexually active. This AAP article suggests the chorus of concern may be having some impact.
The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association [...]
Is the DrinkWise organisation as independent as it claims?
Mike Daube, Professor of Health Policy and Director, Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA, Curtin University of Technology, has had a critical look at the evidence, and writes:
A group of academics recently published a letter in the Medical Journal of Australia calling on researchers not to [...]
Back on April 1, when the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents was launched, it included mention of an NHMRC review of public health research which was conducted last year and whose findings have been widely anticipated. At the time, the NHMRC’s ceo Professor Warwick Anderson told us that the report would be released “next week”.
Well, [...]
Melissa Sweet, health journalist and Croakey moderator, writes:
OK, some Croakey readers might be thinking, what on earth has the Sydney Writer’s Festival got to do with health?
Personally, I find some of the most useful insights into health matters come from books not directly related to health. Besides, I spent three days queuing at the festival, [...]
Melissa Sweet, health journalist and Croakey moderator, writes:
I suffered an adverse reaction at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) conference in Adelaide this week. It happened when one speaker casually referred to “heart sink patients”.
It’s not as if I hadn’t heard the term before. Anyone who regularly reads the medical mags [...]
Cris Kerr, an advocate for the value of patient testimony, especially around e-Health systems, has responded to Paul Smith’s recent report on the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission plans. Cris writes:
“I wish to draw attention to the recent NHHRC release entitled, ‘Person-controlled Electronic Health Records’, where on page 14 the following is stated:
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We have a new entry for the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents.
CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by governments or other commissioning bodies), in the interests of promoting better informed policy, practice and debate.
An eagle-eyed Croakey source noted this link from the Australian [...]
Simon Chapman, Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, unpicks claims that shopkeepers are being hit hard by new tobacco display regulations. He writes:
The Sun-Herald this weekend reported on a Deloitte study commissioned by the Australian Association of Convenience Stores, which claimed that the NSW’s government’s 2008 decision to require all retail displays [...]
Dr Craig Dalton, a Public Health Physician and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, is looking for people to help with an innovative flu-tracking initiative using social media. He writes:
The Federal Health Department has raised Australia’s pandemic alert level to CONTAIN. There are now cases occurring without any overseas travel or contact with [...]
The National Rural Health Alliance is one group in health that is worth listening to. Unlike many other health organisations, it is not speaking for the interests of a single professional group or a single disease lobby, but is attempting to represent the broader community’s interests (and believe me, for all the fine words spoken [...]
