The Croakey blog is a forum for debate and discussion about health issues and policy. It is moderated by Melissa Sweet, a freelance journalist with a personal and professional bent towards public health perspectives. Regular contributors include members of the Crikey Health and Medical Panel – more than 150 people who want to help contribute to a more informed and wide-ranging public debate about health issues.
Croakey is particularly keen to talk about public health, media coverage of health, Indigenous health, marketing by the health, medical and food industries, tobacco and alcohol-related issues, rural health, mental health, consumer participation in decision-making, evidence-based care, quality and safety of health care, equity in health, and social determinants of health.
We also want to make it easier for people to contribute to debate; to tear down some of the barriers erected by governments, bureaucracies, organisations and others with a vested interest in maintaining the timidity and dishonesty which characterises so much public discussion.
You can read more about the background to the Crikey Health and Medical Panel in this article from the Medical Journal of Australia (abstract is free; full article is not).
Croakey likes a healthy debate; the articles posted from contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Melissa Sweet.
Contact: melissaATsweetcommunicationDOTcomDOTau
