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  • Professor of General Practice and Head of Undergraduate Education, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 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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