Health Minister Simeon Brown claimed striking doctors are ‘crossing an ethical line’. But disruption can be ethical when public welfare is at stake.
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Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.
Peer support is one way to help new mothers access the care they need.
Health workers who picked their noses were more likely to contract COVID, according to a new study. But here’s what the study means for the rest of us.
Primary health care systems must become more resilient as the effects of climate change worsen.
COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic have increased our attention on how individuals and systems cope with stress-inducing shocks.
Research shows low male participation in the nursing workforce can stem from many sources, including reticence by career counsellors to recommend nursing as a career.
To prevent a shortage of health workers, public expressions of appreciation need to be backed by policies that provide dignity, decent working conditions, accountability and appropriate remuneration.
New ethical issues are emerging during COVID-19 as doctors struggle with their obligations to ‘do no harm’ and respect patient autonomy.
As the invasion continues, humanitarian workers could become a target of the Russian army.
Picture how you’d like to be cared for as an older Australian who needs help. Now compare that to the reality for today’s aged care residents and carers.
Less than half of Canadians can see their doctor same-day, and millions don’t even have a family doctor. Improving access to care means providing doctors with the support they need to focus on patients.
The average Nigerian woman or child faces a host of hindrances in accessing health services.
A successful rollout isn’t just about the physical points where people can get the vaccinations. It’s also about having a trained workforce to administer them.
To keep our health care providers healthy, we need to help them sleep.
We tried our hardest to provide the best care in dire circumstances. There wasn’t an alternative.
Provider burnout is expensive for the health system given its associations with low quality of care, absenteeism, and high workforce turnover.
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Ontario health-care workers confidentially reported feeling sacrificed on the job and needing protection from COVID-19 and other risky working conditions in a recent study.
Health systems around the US are on the cusp of receiving COVID-19 vaccines. At the end of this months-long effort are the nitty-gritty details of how health care providers are giving people the vaccine.
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Reader in Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; and Honorary Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia
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Public Health Medicine Specialist and Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Davina Porock is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Nursing, Director of Centre for Research in Aged Care, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Nursing, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Otago
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Professor, Infectious Disease-Trained Epidemiologist and Nurse Practitioner, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at Ghana Health Service
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Professor of Industrial Relations, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor, Global Health and Development, James Cook University
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Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Presidential Academic Fellow in Medical Humanitarianism, University of Manchester