The myth of compassion fatigue suggests that compassion is a finite resource. The reality is that health-care providers are over-worked and need better institutional support.
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Selecting immigrants on points is likely to result in them being healthy, or at least healthy enough for them not to put much strain on our exhausted health systems.
There are a number of challenges that the World Health Organisation’s new leader, Ethiopian-born Tedros Ghebreyesus, will have to navigate during his tenure.
Africa is expected to have among the steepest increases in the number of people affected by non-communicable diseases - it needs health care systems that can cope.
The power to overcoming Ebola was in public awareness by performing simple yet basic infection prevention and control measures like washing hands, isolation and reporting suspected cases.
Irrespective of whether climate change contributed to the thunderstorm in Melbourne last week, we can be sure Australia’s climate projections herald new risks to health that cannot be ignored.
Healthcare that everyone can access is an important step in bridging the inequality in a country. In reality though, its hard to implement properly.
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Health Policy and Health Economics researcher and a Honorary Researcher at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact Swinburne, Swinburne University of Technology
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Clinical Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Medical Epidemiologist , Washington State University
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Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
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Associate Professor of Strategy & IB, University of Bath