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Recent reports about medication use in pregnancy may sound distressing, but reducing complex science to alarming headlines does more harm than good.
The ways the media cover health and medical issues can have a direct impact on people’s behaviour. New research shows the quality of health reporting declined as media companies contracted.
The media is regurgitating an international narrative that may not be fit for localised purpose.
Journalists have to communicate research without reducing interest or readability — but the public needs accuracy.
Measurement matters, especially when it comes to health care and how well we are treated if we get sick or have to go to hospital.
We chose ten magazines, based on their popularity, and judged the quality of the health advice in them.
The media constantly bombards us with the latest research on a plethora of topics without much nuance on its quality or relevance. So how can we trust science if it can’t seem to make up its own mind?
I gave my first news media interview in 1976, after publishing a paper in the Medical Journal of Australia about the elderly making up the lion’s share of psychotropic drug use. In the 39 years since…
Many of today’s public health issues – diabetes, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease – are strongly associated with social inequalities. Literature from across the world shows that gaps in income…
Time magazine has named health workers caring for Ebola victims in West Africa as its “Person of the Year 2014” and compared them to “military special forces who volunteered to fight the epidemic when…
Australians have one the longest life expectancies in the world but are living with growing levels of lifestyle-induced chronic illness, according to the latest national health report card. The Australian…
The final sitting of federal parliament last week lacked no drama, ending with the sudden induction of Peter Slipper as speaker. It was also a mammoth week for health legislation, with the passing of the…
A new set of guidelines produced in the United States for reporting deaths, epidemics and emerging diseases has relevance for Australian media. It shows the differences in the way news organisations in…
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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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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity, Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Edith Cowan University
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PhD Psychology / Public Health, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Head of School, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
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Adjunct Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham