Our health-care system needs to respond in a more just, inclusive, caring and timely way to allow in-person final goodbyes from those who matter most to those at the end of life.
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As a GP, bad headaches are among the most common topics I’m asked about. Here’s how you can assess whether to stay home, see a doctor — or head straight to emergency.
New evidence from Somalia points to effective ways to deliver public services in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
A lot has changed in COVID treatment since the pandemic began. Here are the treatments you can expect — from being diagnosed, to going to hospital, and for those who need to be cared for in ICU.
Side-effects for this unproven and potentially dangerous treatment range from vomiting and diarrhoea to seizures and a coma.
A deep clean involves cleaning objects or surfaces that may not be routinely cleaned, such as walls, ventilation ducts, curtains, carpets, and hard-to-reach places.
A designated coronavirus hospital would relieve pressure on the state’s health-care system and minimise the spread of the virus, but there are a few things to consider.
The 17th-century plague of Italy has lessons for today: Back then, too, people broke public health laws, but there were clergymen who intervened.
In the event COVID-19 sees ICU resources stretched too thin, Victoria doesn’t have clear, uniform or transparent guidelines outlining who should be prioritised for care.
Comparing presentations to Victorian hospital emergency departments in May 2020 to those in May 2019 reveals some important differences.
As the crisis in Victorian aged-care homes goes on, the issue of whether to move all COVID-positive residents into hospital continues to generate debate. There are pros and cons for both sides.
When it comes to PPE, we could be better protecting our frontline health-care workers. We need to update current guidelines to reflect the latest evidence around how COVID-19 spreads.
This news will be hard for patients who were deferred during the first wave of COVID-19. But it’s a vital move to ensure Victoria’s health system is in the best position to handle the second wave.
The only chaplain in the COVID-19 section of a Montréal hospital offers spiritual care to patients and families, as well to staff, who have found themselves more intimately exposed to life and death.
The COVID-19 pandemic gives us a chance to improve our elective surgery system when it restarts.
It’s time to talk to your loved ones about what care and treatment you’d want if you face death from COVID-19.
As the number of people hospitalised with COVID 19 rises, so do the number of people wanting to visit their sick loved ones. Who can visit?
A pulmonologist at Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis provides a firsthand look at how the hospital is preparing to allocate resources and supplies in response to coronavirus.
An emergency and critical care physician gives a dispatch from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
We’re likely to see more ‘fever clinics’ opening as coronavirus transmission takes hold in the community. But what are they? And do you need a fever to attend one?
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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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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Nursing and Health Services Research, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Lecturer (Clinical), Medicine, James Cook University
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Teaching Fellow in Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds
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Certified Occupational Hygienist, University of Wollongong
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Professor and Head of Pain Research, Aalborg University
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Professor in Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour, Loughborough University
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Professor, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Health Economics, Director Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer and Head of Health and Social Work School, University of Hull
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer in Employment Relations, University of Leeds
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Principal Academic Consumer Behaviour, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Children's Nursing, Edge Hill University