Climate change and parenting
Mary Ryan and Niels Wouters
These are times where one should question how we, as members of society, will formulate meaningful responses to the ever-increasing global complexity: what is the world that our children will ...
Climate change anxiety and our mental health
Susie Burke and Grant Blashki
The phrase inconvenient truth, made famous by Al Gore’s movie, has unfortunately for humanity turned out to be not only inconvenient and true, but quite prophetic about the climate. Climate ...
Climate Change: Human Health Impacts — Past, Present and Future
Tony McMichael
The year 2010 was climatically distinctive. Globally, it was one of the two hottest years in the 150-year (surface thermometer) record. It was also a tumultuous year of extreme weather ...
Common genetic conditions
Tiong Yang Tan
There are many different ways that faults in the genetic code can occur. Alterations to the genetic code can arise at any level and can affect gene expression leading to ...
Common medical conditions in which genes play a role
Brian T. Wilson
Genes influence every aspect of a person’s health, from the ability to resist infection with a pathogen, to how medication is metabolised, to mental health and behaviour. Diseases have historically ...
Control and Eradication of Malaria: Past, Present and Future
Graham Brown
To the great surprise of many well-informed people in developed countries, malaria remains a major problem in the world today. Although figures may not be very reliable, it was estimated ...
Martin Delatycki & Grant Blashki
Introduction to human genetics
No field of medicine has changed in so dramatic a fashion as has been the case with human genetics. It is only 40 years ago this year that the first ...
Alessandro Demaio
Noncommunicable Diseases
NCDs, or noncommunicable diseases, are a group of diseases connected by their causes — or what doesn’t cause them. They are a group of diseases defined by what they are ...
Peter C. Doherty, Fiona Stanley & Michael Good
A healthy future? Let’s put medical science under the microscope
The past is prologue, or so we should hope for biomedical research. Australia has a proud history with four Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine given for work done here ...
Shawana Andrews, Fiona Stanley, Sandra Eades
First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture
Health explores concepts that are not tied to Western practices, as it delves into birthing, end-of-life care and other Indigenous cultural rituals. The authors highlight the role of Aboriginal leadership ...
Adrian Dunlop
Escaping drugs and alcohol
Alcohol and drugs: Why do people take them, what do they hope to get out of taking them? Why do things go wrong sometimes? How do people get into trouble? ...
Sarah Edelman
What’s the use of worrying? Strategies for breaking the worry habit
Worry has been described as an attempt to engage in mental problem-solving on an issue whose outcome is uncertain. We think about bad things that could happen and how we ...