In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when accessing health services.
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To improve wait times for surgery, Canada needs to fix its health-care system. Developing a national seniors’ strategy would be a good place to start.
The most effective way to improve flu vaccination rates among health workers in high-risk clinical areas and aged care facilities is to make it mandatory.
The case of this cult-like group shows health consumers need better protection.
Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
In a complex environment with massive numbers of internet-connected devices, the key barrier to better cybersecurity isn’t funding: It’s ensuring staff at all levels take action against the threat.
Private health insurance premiums are set to rise again. These 14 charts (well, technically 10 charts and four tables) look at some of the reasons why health insurance premiums keep going up and up.
One in four patients who stays overnight in hospital endures a complication.
Creative appointment scheduling minimizes in-office waiting for physicians and patients.
Thanks to Hurricane Maria, some US hospitals are experiencing a saline shortage. In times of emergency, medical supply chains break down too easily.
We asked four of our regular economics writers to examine a key theme they expect to flare up in 2018 and why.
The rapid growth of genetic testing and data-gathering could revolutionize health and medicine if governments work to protect people against privacy and societal risks.
If Americans become less healthy and have less access to health care, then everyone loses.
Once young women could access health insurance through their parents, they seemed to make very different decisions about contraception, abortion and marriage.
We have lots of data about hospital safety, but it’s not used to make us safer or more comfortable when we’re admitted.
It’s hard but feasible to make a difference, as long as you work with the locals and don’t become a ‘disaster tourist.’
A staggering 70 per cent of female inmates are back in prison within two years of their release. Basic health and dental care could help change this, according to new research.
The population is aging in Canada and around the world. It’s time to focus our attentions on optimal aging instead of grimly tallying the burdens of growing old.
In most markets, diversity and choice foster robust competition. In health insurance they could lead to fragmentation and market failure.
Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory’s May 2017 bankruptcy.
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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 Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Indigenous Science Research Director, Indigenous Science and Engagement, CSIRO
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor (adjunct) and Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Medicine and Health Economics, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, Rutgers University - Newark