So-called ‘continuity of care’ has many health benefits, yet it’s becoming increasingly rare.
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In the United States, the state you live in, how you vote and how extreme your views are can all have an impact on your health and wellbeing. There are also lessons for Australia.
Feelings of embarrassment or shame can deter some people from seeking necessary healthcare, and their experiences are absent from conventional health surveys.
Children and youth in care are more likely to have experienced trauma that can affect future health. A comprehensive, trauma-informed health strategy for these children and youth is long overdue.
In addition to improving health and education outcomes, school feeding programmes bring social protection and help develop local agricultural economies by boosting local farming activities.
Increasing the stigma around LGBTIQ+ people leads to poorer health outcomes for a group that is already more vulnerable in the health system.
Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.
Physical training before surgery — like breathing exercises or running — boosts the odds of a good outcome. Patients with surgeries postponed during COVID-19 can use the delay for ‘prehabilitation.’
Research shows napping helps young children learn, as well as enhancing their emotional well-being.
Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
How mathematically proficient are you? And do you have the skills to back up your level of math confidence? The answers to those questions may have ramifications for your financial and physical health.
States that have restrictive abortion laws don’t just have worse health measures for women. A new study suggests that everyone is harmed.
Childhood adversity doesn’t just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body’s fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
A new study has established a cause and effect relationship between years of education and heart disease.
Headlines pointed to the privatisation of hospital, end-of-life and dental services, but the Productivity Commission’s report is actually a lot less radical.
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in Social Epidemiology, University of York
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Professor of Statistical Genetics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Provincial Clinical Lead for Trauma Informed Care, IWK/NSH Child/Youth MHA, Sessional Instructor, Dalhousie School of Social Work, PhD Candidate in Health, Dalhousie University
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Community Pediatrician within Division of Community Pediatrics/Adjunct assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Psychology, Saint Mary’s University
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Assistant professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Kinesiology, McMaster University
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Research associate, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University
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Director, Center for Science Communication Research, University of Oregon