September 2, 2009 – 6:30 pm
Don’t get too excited about the Preventative Health Taskforce recommendations, cautions Professor Boyd Swinburn, Professor of Population Health at Deakin University, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Obesity Prevention. There have been other reports making similar useful recommendations which have gone nowhere.
He writes:
“The decision by the Preventative Health Taskforce to start with the [...]
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Also posted in Food, alcohol, health reform, prevention, public health, tobacco control
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Tagged alcohol, Boyd Swinburn, food industry, obesity, Preventative Health Taskforce, public health, self-regulation, tobacco
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We shall soon know the future, or at least how the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission would like to see the future of health care evolve in Australia.
Its final report is expected to be released within days but health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett warns that one important issue – the impact of out-of-pocket [...]
Some links to new publications – on everything from the history of swine flu to obesity prevention and disaster planning - that may be of use or interest:
• History of swine flu
The latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine has two interesting articles exploring the history of swine flu, otherwise known as influenza [...]
While the front pages and buckets of airtime are being devoured by the question of whether the wealthy should have to pay more for their private health insurance, there are other, far more important things that you could be reading about.
The 18 May edition of the Medical Journal of Australia is devoted to Indigenous health, [...]
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Also posted in Food, Health inequalities, Hospitals, Indigenous health, Journal articles, Media-related issues, childbirth and maternity services, dental care, prevention, private health insurance, public health, rural and remote health
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Tagged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, COAG, Indigenous health, maternity services, Medical Journal of Australia, pregnancy, smoking
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Professor Stephen Leeder, director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, weighs in with some comments on Tim Gill’s recent post raising concerns about the Feds’ plans for nutrition and physical activity surveys:
DESPITE the enormity of the obesity epidemic, astonishingly Australia still lacks information about trends in weight, physical activity [...]
In the lead-up to the budget, Croakey has asked an assortment of public health and health policy types about their wishes and expectations.
Michael Moore, CEO, Public Health Association of Australia
In the initial budget for this government was a huge effort on hospital waiting lists and $$$ through to the States for improvements at the tertiary [...]
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Also posted in Health inequalities, Hospitals, Indigenous health, alcohol, health ethics, health reform, mental health, prevention, primary health care, private health insurance, public health, quality and safety of health care, tobacco control
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Tagged alcohol, federal budget, health budget, pathology, preventive health, private health insurance, radiology, tobacco
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January 30, 2009 – 10:21 am
Health and communications consultant Mark Ragg spent a fair bit of time wading through health statistics and reports to come up with his own personal assessment of the state of our health system.
His conclusion, as reported in Crikey yesterday, is that the system is generally fine – but it’s not fair.
“You do much better [...]
