Early identification is the first step in addressing malnutrition. This requires systematic routine screening processes.
What does the future hold for the millions of women left to work in Asia’s agriculture sector battling a climate in collapse?
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
As a federal government taskforce ponders how to improve the system, a new study focuses on nurses in two Victorian residential aged care homes, and how they feel about and operate in their workplaces.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
There’s an urgent need to recalibrate the mental healthcare sector so it better-serves those most in need.
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
Low pay rates, a lack of career structure, supervision and mentoring is putting pressure on the disability workforce, with some NDIS participants not having their most basic care needs met.
A new book based on the world’s largest multi-professional study of its kind relates the distressing experiences of Australian healthcare workers amid the pandemic.
Neither polypharmacy nor complex medication regimens necessarily lead to good health results for patients.
There are about 50 sexual assaults in Australian aged care homes every week, but staff are expected to assess the severity and impact of incidents without training.
The healthcare sector needs to look within, and find a new way to reconnect with the people it serves.
The lack of investment in the development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices in Australia, most importantly a COVID-19 nucleic acid test, is a public policy failure.
Research shows last year’s lockdowns in Victoria were associated with near double the population prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms.
There are three measures for assessing whether public policy is successful, and the Coalition has been found wanting on all three. But there’s one policy area that’s an even bigger disaster.
Is the failure to secure convictions in Australia’s first contested cartel prosecution the canary in the coal mine for future enforcement?
Inconsistency, uncertainty and confusion are leading to vaccination delays.
Unpacking where the money’s going, and what it means for you and the post-COVID recovery.
Nepali temporary migrants have been acutely affected by the COVID pandemic due to their concentration in casualised, precarious work in the healthcare, hospitality and services industries.
There are clear opportunities in Australia to transform food waste into more valuable products.
Many Indigenous children leaving state care face an unknown and difficult future, with little support after they exit the system.
Addressing the health, social and economic inequities in our communities is crucial in the COVID-19 recovery.
Beyond COVID-19, is AI part of the response to the failures of aged care?
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