Courage or just plain sensible? Some courageous ideas to prevent today’s wicked problems for our children as yet unborn
Fiona Stanley and Kate Lycett
As we move from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic into a ‘post-Covid’ world, it gives us an incredible opportunity to move to a more equitable and sustainable world, one ...
Creating the Conditions for People to Lead Healthy, Fulfilling Lives: Law Reform to Prevent and Control NCDs
Belinda Reeve & Lawrence O Gostin
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs; e.g., cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease) represent a profound threat to the health of the world’s population, accounting for over two-thirds of deaths worldwide and ...
Data for health
Fiona Stanley
As a child health researcher and advocate, there are many situations which make me anxious in Australia in 2014. Child abuse and neglect is apparently rising, as are substance abuse ...
Driven to distraction: Why be mindful in this unmindful world?
Craig Hassed
When we reflect on our most important formative experiences in life — and they do not come along every day — we might have noticed that they have something in ...
Educating Doctors About Health Promotion and Preventive Care
Leon Piterman
The medical profession is perhaps best known for its contribution to curative medicine. Each day we read about advances in medical science driven by groundbreaking research aimed at curing diseases ...
Escaping drugs and alcohol
Adrian Dunlop
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? ...
Marguerite V. Evans-Galea
Gene therapy – personalised medicine in action
We all begin life as a single cell that divides and develops until we are a fully grown human being. Inside this cell, our DNA carries the complete set of ...
John Fitzgerald
Sustainability and health: Care of the self, care of the world
There are numerous examples in the climate change and sustainability literature of people not getting the message, not connecting emotionally with the evidence, and not modifying their behaviours in the ...
Billie Giles-Corti
Using soft and smart power to create a healthy, liveable and sustainable city
In September 2011, a high-level UN meeting brought together leaders from across the globe to discuss the prevention and control of chronic diseases. This meeting acknowledged that the global burden ...
Lawrence O. Gostin
Global health with justice: the United Nations’ sustainable development agenda on health
Recognising the failure to meet the needs of the world’s poor, the United Nations General Assembly, on 8 September 2000, unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ...
Jill Gready
Best of the old and the new: a way forward for the food security dilemma?
The challenge of assuring global food security for the world’s increasing population — estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050 — has been much discussed. Many solutions have been proffered, ...
Kathleen Griffiths
Surfing out of the depths
Depression has been judged by experts to be as debilitating to the individual as multiple sclerosis. It is responsible for more disability in Australia than any other medical condition and ...