Healthcare professionals play a critical role in supporting breastfeeding mothers, but they often face challenges that hinder their ability to provide optimal care.
Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to healthcare?
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.
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
A new five-year study aims to build a broad picture of illicit drug use in regional Victoria, to better-understand the gaps in local health service planning.
The use of telehealth for sexual and reproductive health care services improves access to health information and care, and so should be made a permanent feature of the Medicare Benefits Schedule.
MyMedicare is a new voluntary scheme that allows patients to register with their usual GP. How will it work? And how might it benefit patients? Here’s what we know so far.
Monitoring the quality of healthcare by routinely collecting, analysing and sharing standardised health-related information.
This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.
Getting a good night’s sleep is essential for the whole family. Here are some tips to try if your child struggles with poor sleep.
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.
The pandemic stretched our healthcare system to breaking point, but it also proved how new and positive models of screening and care can quickly be created in adversity.
Inclusive education must go beyond simply including children with disability in a space, as there’s often an invisible door that hinders a true sense of belonging.
A nationwide study reveals the ways school psychologists and counsellors adapted to overcome the challenges of pandemic-related restrictions.
A study shows there’s a range of barriers in primary, secondary and hospital care preventing patients and clinicians jointly deciding the next steps in the patient’s treatment.
Rules curtailed the presence of fathers and non-birth partners at antenatal, birth, and post-natal appointments, but there are steps they can take to foster a stronger bond.
Students enter medical training with preconceived ideas of doctors’ professional identity, but how do academics foster it in the transition to online teaching?
How do we use digital technologies to make healthcare more accessible?
Legal abortion doesn’t mean it's easy for women to access the services they need, particularly if they live in rural areas.
Researchers are working to mitigate the risk of weight gain and its associated problems, including increased COVID-19 vulnerability, among shift workers.
Our experts provide tips and information for those who want to better understand and embrace the idea of planetary health.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in alcohol use, and people with mental health problems are the most at risk, research finds.
How has COVID-19 accelerated technological change, innovation and advancement in digital healthcare?
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