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melissa sweet
Essays & Reportage
Going Dutch? Let’s talk about it, at least
Melissa Sweet
21 September 2009
The Medicare Select proposal has opened up a new front in the health debate.
Melissa Sweet
talks to supporters and sceptics
Essays & Reportage
“It’s much more fun in general practice. I can play in any field; I don’t regret it one bit.”
Melissa Sweet
26 October 2010
Talk about health policy reform often loses sight of the people in the system and their stories.
Melissa Sweet
watches two GPs in action in the south-west Sydney suburb…
Essays & Reportage
“It’s like when a patriarch dies, and the will is read, and everyone starts squabbling”
Melissa Sweet
29 November 2011
Mental health had a big win in this year’s budget – and that’s when the fights began, writes
Melissa Sweet
in this joint investigation with Crikey
Essays & Reportage
Overtested, overtreated and over here
Melissa Sweet
4 June 2012
The principles behind an American campaign to reduce unnecessary and often expensive medical interventions are gaining support in Australia, writes
Melissa Sweet
National Affairs
The growing movement to increase health equity
Melissa Sweet
19 April 2013
The evidence is clear and health professionals are taking notice, writes
Melissa Sweet
. Now it’s time for government to act
Essays & Reportage
Swine flu, vaccination and other matters of trust
Melissa Sweet
3 February 2010
Amid renewed calls for mass vaccinations in Australia,
Melissa Sweet
looks at the latest chapter in the international debate about swine flu and its implications for…
Essays & Reportage
On relations with trees
Melissa Sweet
24 June 2009
Melissa Sweet
returns to a life in the Australian bush
Essays & Reportage
Understanding Miller
Melissa Sweet
28 March 2011
“Locational disadvantage” has an enormous impact on the lives of residents in many Australian suburbs. But an experiment in Sydney’s 2168 postcode area is…
National Affairs
Is the media part of the Aboriginal health problem, and part of the solution?
Melissa Sweet
3 March 2009
Is the media stopping us from seeing the real problems and doing something about them, asks
Melissa Sweet
Essays & Reportage
Germ warfare opens a new front
Melissa Sweet
1 March 2013
Overuse of antibiotics is not only creating resistant bacteria but also changing the ecology of the human body, writes
Melissa Sweet
National Affairs
Sometimes, less is more
Melissa Sweet
16 June 2011
A growing movement among US healthcare professionals is arguing that medical treatment can cause more harm than good, reports
Melissa Sweet
National Affairs
Primary healthcare reform: learning from the tough suburbs of Philadelphia
Melissa Sweet
7 June 2011
Public health nurses at the 11th Street Family Health Services Center are committed to developing long-term relationships with the community, reports
Melissa Sweet
Essays & Reportage
Medicare goes local in search of “disruptive innovation”
Melissa Sweet
4 April 2012
Can local networks pull off the healthcare reforms that have eluded state and national governments, asks
Melissa Sweet
Essays & Reportage
Can cities and towns make us healthier?
Melissa Sweet
3 August 2017
With state and federal governments overwhelmingly focused on big-ticket medical spending, can local initiatives fill the gaps?
National Affairs
The politics of prevention
Melissa Sweet
16 October 2018
Australia’s innovative preventive health agency was closed down by the Abbott government. How — and in what form — should it be revived?
Essays & Reportage
The long road to healthcare justice
Tess Ryan and Melissa Sweet
23 July 2020
The struggle to eliminate racism from Australian healthcare has been given new momentum
National Affairs
Climate-constrained healthcare
Melissa Sweet
5 September 2018
While the federal government plays politics with climate change, states and community groups are trying to head off a public health crisis
National Affairs
“We are not in the aviation business, we are in the mobility business”
Melissa Sweet
12 November 2018
Could there be such a thing as a healthy airport?
National Affairs
Precautionary principles
Melissa Sweet
6 February 2020
Can infectious disease outbreaks help strengthen Australia’s response to another health crisis?
Essays & Reportage
Two suburbs, 167 lives: how the Life Chances study turned twenty-one
Melissa Sweet
8 October 2012
In 1990 a team of researchers began tracking a group of babies born in two inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their latest results paint a complex picture of obstacles, opportunities and…
Essays & Reportage
The twin pandemics
Melissa Sweet
4 June 2021
Manufacturers of unhealthy products aren’t letting the crisis go to waste
Books & Arts
Best (overlooked) books 2010
Inside Story contributors
23 December 2010
Well, not all of them were entirely overlooked, but we definitely read them during 2010
National Affairs
Doing the numbers on doctor shortages
Jennifer Doggett
25 September 2018
There’s a straightforward way of making sure more doctors work where they’re needed
Books & Arts
Best (overlooked) books 2012
Inside Story contributors
13 December 2012
Our contributors nominate the books from 2012 (or, in a few cases cases, late 2011) that didn’t get the attention they deserved
Essays & Reportage
Let’s not waste this crisis
Melissa Sweet
3 April 2020
The health system is changing in previously inconceivable ways, but let’s make sure those most in need don’t get lost along the way
Essays & Reportage
Between the covers
Diana Bagnall
20 March 2018
The problems at the Park Street headquarters of Bauer Media are a microcosm of an industry slowly adjusting to a blizzard of change
National Affairs
Healthcare’s out-of-pocket crisis
Jennifer Doggett
24 October 2018
Fast-rising medical expenses are restricting access to healthcare and increasing long-term costs