Fewer than half of Australians are always bulk billed when they see a GP. Labor’s Medicare plan, which the Coalition has promised to match, could turn this around.
Articles on Health policy
Displaying 101 - 120 of 531 articles
What is a menopause health assessment? And how will it improve the health care women receive during this stage in their lives?
Factors like age, gender and where you live can make it more likely an applicant will be rejected.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been confirmed as the US health secretary. Here’s why this is bad news for America and the world.
Here’s what the evidence says, and how they work overseas.
From access to preventive care to workplace protections, public policies affect the health of LGBTQ+ people and the general public in both direct and indirect ways.
The funding has been billed as a way to shorten waits for care in emergency departments and for elective surgery. But will it really make a difference?
“Drink responsibly” messages have not stopped risky drinking. Some say we need cancer warnings on wine bottles and beer cans like we do on cigarette packs.
In our new study, people told us they’d been fined for leaving home to access drug treatment programs – and still couldn’t afford to pay, years later.
While it doesn’t constitute a national ban on gender-affirming care for minors, the executive order contains provisions that could have a chilling effect on health care providers around the country.
Some communities have too few GPs to ensure everyone can get the care they need, when they need it. Whoever wins the federal election should commit to fixing this.
Overseeing the FDA, NIH and several other public health and medical research divisions, the HHS secretary is a powerful force in how the nation accesses health care.
Health care is universal in Australia, but this doesn’t mean seeing a doctor is always free.
Aggressive and misleading marketing is fuelling demand for medicinal cannabis. Here are some of the ways clinics bend the rules.
A third of LGBTQIA+ Australians describe their health as only “fair” or “poor”, far more than the broader population. This new ten-year plan is long overdue – and here’s where it can start to help.
The number of GPs has actually increased in the past five years. But the number of full-time equivalent GPs has gone down.
The debate over adding fluoride to drinking water is almost as old as the practice itself.
A new payment system requires wealthier people to contribute more for non-clinical services. Here’s what it means for Australians planning for in-home or residential aged care.
South Africa’s recently updated research ethics guidelines provide guidance on oversight into heritable human genome editing, and they should not be interpreted as a green light.
The program will raise awareness about the dangers of vaping, and hopefully support changes in vaping attitudes and behaviours among young people.
Top contributors
-
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
-
Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
-
Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
-
Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
-
Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
-
Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
-
Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
-
Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney; University of Canberra
-
Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
-
Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
-
Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
-
Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney