August 19, 2009 – 1:29 pm
I am part-way through the anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw’s book about the lives of Aboriginal people in western Sydney, The City’s Outback, and am enjoying it mightily.
I’m beginning to wonder, in the wake of both this book and Tess Lea’s explorations of the worlds of public health professionals in the NT, Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts, whether [...]
August 19, 2009 – 12:59 pm
Thanks to Associate Professor Kate Conigrave, a specialist in addiction medicine at the University of Sydney, for alerting Croakey readers to this useful resource for those with an interest in Indigenous health.
The Indigenous Health Infonet is based at Edith Cowan University in Perth and funded primarily by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing’s Office [...]
Thanks to the Croakey reader who has clearly been meticulous in their reading of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report, and has written to sound the alarm that Aboriginal people are not included in the proposal for under-served remote and rural communities to receive top-up funding.
The top-up is aimed at overcoming the [...]
There are a few inconsistencies in the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report. It puts great emphasis on maintaining the role of private health insurance, for example, while also acknowledging that “there are increasing concerns that a two-tiered health system is evolving, in which people without private health insurance have unacceptable delays in access [...]
Fiona Armstrong, a health policy advisor and longstanding advocate of health reform, is deeply disappointed by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report. She writes:
“The NHHRC report is not only a missed opportunity to create a system that will address equity and efficiency in the current system – instead its proposals threaten both.
Of course [...]
The complexity of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report means it deserves a complex response, suggests Professor John Wakerman, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, a joint initiative of Flinders University & Charles Darwin University. He has filed this analysis for Croakey:
“The greatest understatement in the NHHRC’s final report is that ‘Opportunity [...]
Fears about the impact of swine flu upon pregnant women are generating alarm and some confusion. And not only in Australia. In Britain, various health and medical sources have been giving the public conflicting advice, according to this report in the British Medical Journal.
Meanwhile, Professor Peter McIntyre, Director, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance [...]
For those with an interest in health and new media, a new book has just landed: Health Communication in the New Media Landscape, by two academics from the University of Missouri-Columbia (one from the health sciences side of things and the other from the journalism school).
It takes a broad look at how new media is [...]
Croakey has previously argued that the Productivity Commission inquiry into public and private hospital performance has overly narrow terms of reference.
Below you can read some more suggestions for the Commission from several Croakey contributors, but first have a look at how much further the debate on hospital performance has advanced in some other countries.
In the [...]
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About 100 Aboriginal men recently attended a three-day male health summit hosted by the Sunrise Health Service at the Banatjarl camp south of Katherine.
At the close of the summit last Thursday (July 2), they issued 22 recommendations. These include calls for:
The Federal Government to immediately reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act with full integrity
Health resources specific [...]
