The fight against diabetes in Malaysia and Southeast Asia requires a multifaceted approach that addresses dietary habits, physical activity, and socio-economic factors.
It’s clear some women struggle to work because of their menopausal symptoms, but help to keep them in the workforce must be provided in a way that doesn’t set them up for further discrimination.
Australians are in the grip of a mental health crisis, yet mental health nurses are underutilised, and even excluded from initiatives that could lead to improvements.
Early identification is the first step in addressing malnutrition. This requires systematic routine screening processes.
Stigma within the healthcare system is being tackled head-on with the development of resources to help people with substance dependence access the care they need.
A new national survey has found career stability and funding are two key factors turning young scientists away from research.
Gender equality, in the workforce and at home, took a backward step during the pandemic, with the patriarchy taking advantage of the virus. It’s not just up to women to fight back.
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
As Medicare turns 40 years old this month, it’s important to reflect on its achievements, and also what needs to be done to remodel it.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
It was thought that after the pandemic, young people’s outlook for the future might have improved. But the latest Australian Youth Barometer survey shows it’s actually become worse.
COP28 will include the first dedicated “Health Day”. It’s due recognition that a health crisis is inextricably linked to the climate crisis.
To rebuild our children’s mental health after the duress of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must redefine how mental health services are delivered to our communities, and create a scaffold of affordable and accessible support.
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.
It’s argued that building research capacity helps clinicians to provide better care, and health outcomes, for their patients in rural and remote areas.
Australia has leapt to 26th in the 2023 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, but we’re still behind countries such as New Zealand and Rwanda.
What began as a heart research project looking at ways to understand a potentially fatal but preventable disease has evolved from the biomedical into one more in keeping with an Indigenous perspective.
While fentanyl is yet to markedly impact Australia, the North American opioid crisis shows us how bad it can get, and urgent action is needed now.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
Health status is more complex than just your address. At a population level, the biggest predictor of health status is the social determinants of health. We need to think outside the box to determine who needs care most, and how it can be delivered.
Until crucial steps are taken, the current “system” of payment of academic casuals or sessional staff will continue to be an unproductive source of contestation.
COVID-19 further exposed existing cracks in the teaching profession that need to be fixed urgently.
There’s an urgent need to recalibrate the mental healthcare sector so it better-serves those most in need.
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