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  • Director, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity and Centre of Research Excellence in Obesity Management and Prevention in Primary Health Care, UNSW
Medicare locals aim to reduce visits to emergency departments by coordinating after-hours care. image from shutterstock.com

Give Medicare Locals a chance to improve health equity

Mark Harris, UNSW ; Elizabeth Harris, UNSW , and Nicholas Zwar, UNSW

While independent, government-funded Medicare Locals are still in their embryonic form, opposition health spokesperson Peter Dutton has hinted that, if elected, a Coalition government would scrap the bureaucracies…
Some GPs are reluctant to broach the issue of weight for fear of offending their patients; others aren’t convinced by the evidence. Image from shutterstock.com

Are GPs doing enough to help patients lose weight?

Nicholas Zwar, UNSW and Mark Harris, UNSW

Almost two-thirds (62%) of Australian adults and one fifth (21%) of children aged five to nine years are either overweight or obese. The prevalence has increased by 5% in the last decade and is strongly…

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