How does Australia’s health care system compare to our peers in the OECD? Here we highlight five charts showing Australia’s relative performance.
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The NHS, like many other health systems, is still dealing with the effects of COVID-19 but the challenges it faces predate the pandemic.
It’s all too common for health professionals and departments to slip into silo mentalities.
Research on both sides of the globe shows that unmanageable workloads is the main reason why many ambulance service staff are considering quitting the profession.
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.
When hospital and GP staff do not reflect the population they serve, patients’ health suffers.
Patient online comments are often underused, if they are used at all.
Several familiar maternity terms have been abandoned after a consultation with pregnant women and healthcare professionals.
People who developed diabetes, psychosis and congestive heart failure, in that order, experienced the largest reduction in life expectancy
Rural women in Nigeria circumvent patriarchy to make decisions on their healthcare.
New research linking police and healthcare data shows that victims of domestic abuse are detectable before the involvement of the police.
Research into swarming in nature is transforming healthcare, gambling and the military.
Cultural awareness training for health-care workers places focus on individual biases rather than tackling the systemic problems that negatively impact Indigenous patients.
About 35% of people in England faced some form of disruption to healthcare access during the pandemic.
Ghana’s implementation of key population policies has not been consistent.
Prophets of the NHS’s demise have been proved wrong year after year.
Finland aims to be tobacco free by 2030. Could the UK do more to keep the population healthy?
As the use of Ozempic, a drug for diabetes, slams into the mainstream as a weight-loss method, will the drug’s use impact our concept of fatness? And how does fatness intersect with race and class?
Using AI effectively in healthcare will require retraining of the workforce, retooling health services, and transforming workflows.
Key to diagnosing foetal alcohol syndrome is an assessment of certain facial features. A 3D facial scan is expensive but 2D images may offer a solution.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer: Interprofessional Education Unit, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in Health Care Law and Ethics, Barrister, Solicitor, Swansea University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Head of Research, PUSKAPA
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg Sweden, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Professor of Health Policy, University of York
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Research scientist of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science, Director, University of Bath and AWP NHS Trust Centre for Specialist Psychological Treatments of Anxiety and Related Problems (CSPTARP), University of Bath
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Research Fellow in Ageing, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
