Can local networks pull off the healthcare reforms that have eluded state and national governments, asks Melissa Sweet
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“It’s like when a patriarch dies, and the will is read, and everyone starts squabbling”
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
29 Nov 11 Comments (4)Reforming the World Health Organization
How should the World Health Organization adapt to a challenging international environment, asks Stephen Leeder
26 Sep 11 Comments (0)The madness industry
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida. Brett Evans reviews his new book
17 Aug 11 Comments (0)In the blood
Bacterial infections might move more slowly than heart attacks, writes Frank Bowden, but they can be just as deadly
03 Aug 11 Comments (0)Living with an epidemic
In the thirty years since AIDS was first identified much has been achieved, says Lesley Russell, but much still needs to be done to strengthen the international response
29 Jun 11 Comments (0)Sometimes, less is more
A growing movement among US healthcare professionals is arguing that medical treatment can cause more harm than good, reports Melissa Sweet
16 Jun 11 Comments (0)Primary healthcare reform: learning from the tough suburbs of Philadelphia
Public health nurses at the 11th Street Family Health Services Center are committed to developing long-term relationships with the community, reports Melissa Sweet
07 Jun 11 Comments (1)The living end
Hospitals, as much as relatives and friends, can find it very hard to let go, writes intensive care specialist Ken Hillman
05 Apr 11 Comments (3)Understanding Miller
“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 yielding results, writes Melissa Sweet
28 Mar 11 Comments (1)The Gillard health program: reform without change?
Markets and demand are transforming the health system, but the policy debate isn’t catching up, writes James Gillespie
17 Feb 11 Comments (1)Lessons from the Australia–US Free Trade Agreement
The agreement delivered few, if any, of the benefits promised by its advocates, writes John Quiggin, but its adverse consequences have also been more limited than many critics predicted
22 Nov 10 Comments (1)“It’s much more fun in general practice. I can play in any field; I don’t regret it one bit.”
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 of Condell Park
26 Oct 10 Comments (0)Howard’s victories: which voters switched, which issues mattered, and why
The reasons for the Howard government’s electoral success are widely misunderstood, write Murray Goot and Ian Watson, and we can see the impact in the current campaign
23 Jul 10 Comments (1)Legacy on the line
Barack Obama’s policies are starting to fall into place. So why is his approval rating so low, asks Lesley Russell
20 Jul 10 Comments (0)Drug companies take a dip
When GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives to improve access to drugs in least-developed countries, its most radical proposal was for a “patent pool” to generate research into neglected diseases. Meanwhile, Unitaid was designing its own pool, focused on AIDS research. In Nairobi Xan Rice looks at progress on the two pools and GSK’s other proposals
14 Jul 10 Comments (1)Listening to profits
As the disturbing growth in treatment of children for bipolar disorder shows, psychiatry’s overreliance on drugs – and especially newer, less effective and less well-tested drugs – is needlessly putting patients at risk, writes psychiatrist Nicholas Z. Rosenlicht in San Francisco. And Adelaide-based psychiatrist Peter Parry looks at the Australian implications
12 May 10 Comments (0)In praise of the blame game
Rationalising federal–state relations could make governments less not more accountable, argues Anthony Sibillin
31 Mar 10 Comments (0)Learning from Walmart
BOOKS | Ken Hillman reviews The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande
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