Leveraging Digital Health Transformation to Support Australians post-COVID19
I want you to imagine waking up tomorrow, and not being able to get…
Taking the temperature of digital health in Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it have changed the way we live. Digital…
System improvement opportunities in COVID-19 lessons
As emergency clinicians our focus is on ensuring our patients – consumers in our…
Infection prevention: it’s everybody’s business
Often when hospital infection control and prevention experts are presenting or providing education, they…
How COVID-19 spurs the case for health prevention
When we first decided that prevention was to be the theme of this edition…
The road forward for preventive health
Australia has a world leading health system and ranks among the healthiest countries in…
Prevention – what does success look like and how do we achieve it?
When I was first asked to write this article ‘COVID19’ had not been named…
The future for preventive health in Australia
In 2018, with our focus turned to the 2019 federal election, the Public Health…
Prevention – turning hindsight into foresight
Prevention is often overlooked and undervalued. Looking back, we can see the value of…
Prevention and equity: An opportunity to build a better system for kids of the COVID generation
I started writing this article before the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, I wondered…
Tipping the Scales in favour of obesity prevention – how should we use the crisis of Covid-19?
Early in the Covid pandemic the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom…
Health in all policies
It’s been noted many times that we don’t really have a health care system…
Deadly Choices: the importance of health promotion and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights more than ever, the need for a robust, agile and…
Walking and talking our way to good health: social prescribing and prevention
What if your doctor prescribed joining a walking group or art class or a…
Prevention needs more than a poster campaign
‘Prevention is better than cure.’ A statement we have all heard, but one that…
Preventive health from the rural consumer’s viewpoint
Thinking about this topic in the current context is one thing – thinking about…
Think socially, care personally
This edition of Health Voices brings together two concepts: personalised care and social prescribing….
Implementing Universal Personalised Care
In the UK as in Australia, the developments in healthcare and public health initiatives…
Science fiction to fact: personalised medicine with primary care-based pharmacogenomics
A couple of years ago I would have said that personalised medicine sounds like…
The benefits and limits of personalised health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
The conventional health system, continuing poverty and growing inequality in Australia continue to fail…
Personalising health care: a health consumer perspective
Should we, members of the public, be involved in developing personalised healthcare? It seems…
The future of personalised primary health care
It’s October 2029 and time for Alice’s quarterly check-up with her general practice. Often…
Precision public health needs precise safeguards
Precision public health is a new buzzword. But what is it and what does…
A learning health system: benefits for all
Jacob, a ten-year-old boy, is often in trouble at school. He finds it difficult…
Lifting the focus on Men’s Health: personalised health care delivered by the Community Pharmacist
Community pharmacy in Australia has long been regarded as a fundamental pillar of healthcare…
A prescription for life
A new ‘social prescribing’ program is providing personalised solutions to the growing problem of…
Connecting with you: Understanding personal perspectives of mental health care in Australia
Over the past few months I have been visiting communities across Australia and have…
Five goals for a healthy future
The future for health care in Australia is exciting. New knowledge; refined and targeted…
Social prescribing is on the rise in Australia
The appetite for social prescribing is growing. Just look at the recent events hosted…
Is the call for ‘patient-centred care’ just another fad, or can it be truly embedded in practice?
When I commenced lecturing in Nutrition and Dietetics at Charles Sturt University in 2001,…
My Experience with the Australian mental health system
I have been lucky in many respects because my experience with the mental health…
Unleashing nurse capacity for patient-centred healthcare
APNA has long championed the advantages of keeping people well and out of hospital,…
Personalised care in the view of a ‘specialist generalist’
Personalised care – what does this actually mean – both to me as a…
What can we learn from LabTestsOnlineAU about Australians’ Use of Online Health Education Resources?
What can we learn from LabTestsOnlineAU about Australians’ use of online health education resources?…
The healthy trio: Safety, Quality and Literacy
A noteworthy feature of this edition of Health Voices is how our headline trio…
Protecting all consumers starts with some of the most disadvantaged
Australia is recognised internationally as having one of the safest health systems in the…
Consumer representative involvement in health service organisation accreditation
In recent years consumer representation has flowered in various areas of health care, including…
2018 Health Literacy Survey – Do Australian consumers have a healthy understanding?
With the Australian health system becoming increasingly complex, the need for ‘health literate’ consumers…
Complexity of primary care warrants new approaches to patient safety
We must heed the lessons of failure. You could not have missed it; Australia…
Shifting our focus to achieve better care
Samantha[1] was admitted to hospital recently. She had abdominal pain, anxiety, and a rash,…
Balancing imperatives in healthcare
Can we reduce unwarranted clinical variation, be evidence based, and patient-centred at the same…
Pain treatment and safe patient-centred care
Rising dependence, accidental overdose, hospitalisations and death among opiod users is presenting Australia with…
Reducing health inequalities by involving indigenous people in genomics research
Personalised medicine offers a new way to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of…
How digital records can transform life for a child with profound health needs
Caring for a child with severe and profound disabilities is complicated, emotionally draining, and…
Avoid harm – listen to consumers
Safety, quality and health literacy bring together three vital strands of consumer-centered health care….
‘No Decision About Me, Without Me’: Transforming vision into reality through health literacy
In 2012, the National Health Service in the UK published a report titled ‘No…
Value of insights from ‘the inconvenient guest’
An increasing challenge in the modern health care system is the dilemma of balancing…
Patient Care Navigation: ‘better health outcomes … that’s what all this was about’
Chronic conditions account for 87 per cent of deaths in Australia and one in…
Local health literacy solutions, applied nationally
Australia has one of the best health systems in the world, however significant proportions…
The role of ethics in health care
There are many ways in which one can view safety and quality in consumer-centred…
How to get the best out of your GP
Statistics show Australians attend their GP on average six times a year. It is…
Vision of youth for a healthier future
Despite the power and efficacy of modern health care, safeguarding the lives of young…
When words can be a medicine for pain
In 2017, as the Australian Youth Representative to the UN, I conducted the largest…
The value of a lived experience workforce
My journey of mental ill-health began slowly when I was an adolescent at high…
Valuing voices of young living with rare diseases
I was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) when I was eight weeks old. The…
Making voice of youth count in health
The 132-seat hospital auditorium was full, it was standing room only as Jason our…
If you care, listen
It’s a warm, bright Sunday and I have nothing to be sad about, but…
Mental health in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse youth
Approximately a quarter of young Australians aged 16 – 24 have experienced mental health…
Nothing about us without us: The research effort co-creating adolescent health in the digital age
I am, by nature, a worrier. I worry about small things, like whether I…
