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Most older patients in a recent study had a ‘no complaints’ attitude to hospital food. But when it was unfamiliar, they were less likely to eat it.
Health care is responsible for up to 7% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the use of disposable products could reduce this footprint.
Individuals, organisations, countries and AI developers all have a role to play.
One big risk is overdiagnosis: the more you test, the more you’ll find. Much of this may be clinically irrelevant, meaning unnecessary follow-ups, costs and anxiety.
New guidelines for minor cosmetic procedures have just kicked in, but laws remain inconsistent across Australia. This may not be such a bad thing.
Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid may harm vulnerable populations that depend on government-funded care. Proponents of such cuts often frame them in a different way.
Those signs about surprise insurance charges are intended to keep patients informed – but new research points to a negative side effect.
Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – that comes with obligations.
How practitioners listen and communicate helps shape patient experiences in healthcare systems.
Privacy and bias concerns and integration challenges are brakes on the pace of health care systems adopting the technology.
Rural hospitals have been closing, putting emergency care further out of reach, but that’s only one of the heightened challenges aging rural communities face after a disaster.
Medicaid improves access to care for low-wage workers who cannot survive on bare-bone benefits offered by their employers.
Many Indigenous families around the world say hospital staff often don’t understand their cultures or even give them basic rights during maternity care.
Over the past 20 years or so, big companies have been buying smaller clinics once owned by radiologists. Here’s how that can be a problem.
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
Guidelines say consultations must thoroughly assess whether a patient is suitable for a treatment. But someone under 18 can still get Botox without parental consent.
More private hospitals will face similar financial troubles and some will be forced to close. Here’s what this means for patients, the public system and the budget.
People with disability are more likely to die from cancer than the overall population. Here’s how we can shift this striking inequity.
It may be tempting to view hospital parking fees as exploiting a captive market. But the reality is much more complex.
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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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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Karen Willis is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
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Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Full Professor in Economics, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst