Most of the country’s 1,717 primary healthcare centres have no running water or electricity and the hospitals are ill-equipped and under-staffed.
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Online support forums provide emotional help to domestic violence survivors in ways often missed by traditional public services.
In a week of Greek tragedies it has also been hard to distinguish the gods from the monsters in civil society. Three recent important stories about charities question the accountability and management…
As a nation we smoke too much, drink too much alcohol and don’t do enough exercise. The reasons why we continue to do this despite the health risks is complex, but what is clear is that people in deprived…
If Google chairman Eric Schmidt is to be believed, the automation of jobs will be the “defining” problem of the next two to three decades. At a debate at Davos 2014, he warned that the constant development…
The pre-Christmas announcement that private health insurance premiums will rise by an average of 6.2% in 2014 has raised concerns about affordability. But while consumers aren’t expected to drop their…
Improving health services in the juvenile justice system and the community could reduce the risk of youth offenders repeating anti-social behaviours, an Australian study has found. Published in the Journal…
Care homes in Scotland are taking on a new type of technology to help improve the service they give to residents, particularly those suffering from dementia. With the help of digital portraits, staff can…
Adults who were abused in childhood suffer from more chronic health conditions and put far greater pressure on the health system than those who were not abused, according to new research from the University…
Social media has been shown to have the potential to spread medical awareness, new research from the University of Sydney…
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Exeter
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Computing Science, Director of the Digital Institute, Newcastle University
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Research Fellow/Research Uptake Officer of the Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria
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Senior Research Fellow, Yuwaya Ngarra-li, UNSW
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Head, Justice Health Group, Curtin University
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Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
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PhD Student, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Health Economics at the School of Population Health, Adelaide University
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University