The Health Wrap is a regular feature on Croakey from the Sax Institute communications team, which covers some of the interesting and important health news from the previous fortnight, including items covered at Croakey and elsewhere.
2017
- 15 December: The Health Wrap: Australia bans vaginal mesh implants; Meningococcal vaccine; Action plan for endometriosis
- 4 December: The Health Wrap: Tobacco industry under fire; paying for hospital care; obesity, poverty and chronic disease
- 17 November: The Health Wrap: Air pollution public health crisis; dialysis distress; STI spike makes headlines
- 3 November: The Health Wrap: Flu-shot “fake” news, assisted dying and the US opioid crisis
- 22 October: The Health Wrap: Private health insurance shake-up; World Obesity Day; Superbad superbugs
- 5 October: The Health Wrap: Fighting flu, gun control, and the Nobel prize-winning body clock research
- 22 September: The Health Wrap: fatal fractures, sugar tax, mental health and more
- 8 September: Welfare reform and addiction, focus on smoking, and towards a big data heaven
- 21 August: Beating the bad bugs; counting the health costs; healthy minds, healthy bodies and more
- 6 August: Health and welfare challenges; rethinking cancer screening; unpicking research papers and more
- 21 July: Delving into health data; public health messaging; new approaches on Aboriginal health and infectious news
- 5 June: The Stolen Generations, health research funding shake up, action on tobacco control bears fruit
- 19 May: Budget fallout, #IHMayDay17, assisted dying and the cyber attack that shook the NHS
- 5 May: Budgets, mental health reform, rural health and patient safety
- 19 April: Budget build up; damning reports on Indigenous affairs; spotlight on preventive health and more
- 31 March: Mental health, Food marketing confusion, Trump’s healthcare headache and more
- 17 March: Please explain on vaccination, a decade of closing the gap, playing politics, sugar and more
- 3 March: Prevention advocacy; New approaches; Policy ideas; Research reading
- 19 February: Health dollars; The gap’s not closing; Our environment; Matters of influence and more
- 2 February: Ministerial rearrangements; World-wide worries; Research highs and lows
- 6 January: Summer dangers; Health politics; Deadly doctors; Smog in the city
2016
- 11 December: Threats to public health; the weather report; Indigenous justice; research with impact
- 25 November: The right to healthy food; new and old stories; where we live
- 15 November: Trump Time; new priorities for Medical Research Future Fund; a secure future for Indigenous kids
- 30 October: Keeping patients safe; weapons and war; listening to Indigenous voices, inequality and more
- 14 October: The Health Wrap: Health and environment for Aboriginal people, rethinking sugar, mental health and marriage equality, last drinks?
- 30 September: The Health Wrap: Shining a light on Indigenous health, welfare watch, secondary causes of ill-health, talking research
- 16 September: The Health Wrap: A chronic problem, focus on Indigenous children’s health, liquor laws, Medicare musings, and more
- 2 September: The Health Wrap: Social justice and the health gap; incarceration of Indigenous children; big data and health
- 16 August: The Health Wrap: Human rights and health; childhood trials; Indigenous health matters
- 5 August: The Health Wrap: Seeking justice; political rumblings; around the globe; the weather report
- 22 July: The Health Wrap: Post-election health policy news; deadly pathogens; seeking solutions; justice and equality
- 8 July: The Health Wrap: Voting for health, a mental health focus, celebrating NAIDOC Week
- 26 June: The Health Wrap: Playing politics; gun violence back on the agenda; action on addiction and more
- 10 June: The Health Wrap: Election health check; flawed family policies; Indigenous justice; research update
- 27 May: The Health Wrap: health on the hustings, pleas to pollies, tackling chronic problems, superbugs and diet watch
- 16 May: Budget fallout, highlighting critical issues for the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- 29 April:The Health Wrap: Drugs you need; Indigenous innovation; lifestyle and health; and more
- 15 April: The Health Wrap: Race, medicine and justice; health research ups and downs; sweet and sour; scary stuff, and more
- 4 April: The Health Wrap: Finding healthcare funds, gender inequity and violence, closing many gaps
- 15 March: The Health Wrap: Deal or no deal on health dollars, Indigenous suicide crisis, Zika and other infectious news, hot topics and more
- 29 February: The Health Wrap: Blood money, streamlining government processes, Closing the Gap, Asylum seeker health and more
- 13 February: Closing the Gap and issues of equity, big #auspol conversations, all about Zika, sadness at CSIRO
2015
- 24 December: Christmas cautions, who is making the naughty list, the MYEFO health impacts, public health wins and worries, and more
- 11 December: Paris climate talks, Innovation statement, Indigenous health recommendations, eliminating HIV and more
- 30 November: Facing family violence; a hot topic; action on health and justice; headline policies; infectious stories; and more
- 17 November: Funding conundrums; racism, health and justice; public health matters; bacon-gate fallout; Big Data wrap
- 29 October: Hospital failings, smoking to kill one billion this century, road map for Indigenous health, rural climate experiences and a bad day for bacon
- 19 October: Doctors’ detention stance; welfare card on the way; a spoonful of sugar, mental health overhaul, is the TPP good medicine?
- 3 October: Medicare machinations, new movers & shakers, justice and health, gun control & public health, pharma sagas
- 20 September: The politics of health, STIs among Indigenous communities, IVF technology success, policing portion sizes and trans fats
- 7 September: Getting serious about suicide, a private health ‘game of thrones’ drama, ward rounds, food for thought and research rows
- 17 August: The Vegemite news spread; On your bike (sans helmet); a chronic problem; funding medical research and teens’ troubling mental health
- 3 August: GST hike for health funding, a racism-free future, technology-ethics tensions, plain packaging pain
- 19 July: Reclaiming #auspol; violence, inequity, resilience and love; defining research
- 6 July: Speaking out on asylum seeker health; federal funding row; miracle medicine; lighting up tensions, access to abortion
- 19 June: Windfarm woes, the vaccination conversation, hope for medicinal cannabis, improving organ donation rates
- 9 June: Indigenous incarceration disgrace, let’s talk about smoking, Budget fairness test, all things Evidence
- 24 May: A budget health check; medical school war of words; eyes on Ebola; pharmacy deal dispensed; all things equal
- 11 May: Painkillers & prescriptions, Medicare review, Münchausen by internet, science deniers, climate change & more
- 23 April: The vexed issues of antivaxxers, Medicare musings, weighty issues, meeting mental health needs, and measuring poverty
- 10 April: Ice rethink, mental health funding reprieve, tackling anti-vaccination activists, sweat to live longer
- 27 March: Forgotten election issues, Indigenous funding reprieve, mind-eating ice, Medicare debate not dead yet
- 14 March: RIP copayment; choice vs culture; future proofing research infrastructure; on matters of evidence
- 3 March: NSW election, new smoking findings, and other health policy news
- 16 February: On Closing the Gap; persistent policy pickles; lessons for Oz in heated US vaccine debate?
2014
- 16 December: Revamping Medicare; Indigenous policy roadblocks; reforming mental health
- 2 December: Copayment confusion; VicVotes; overcoming Indigenous disadvantage; making systems work for health
- 7 November: Holistic health systems; drug complexities; mental health, G20, Ebola, climate change
- 3 November: Ebola evidence goes MIA; the cost of obesity; investing in our kids
- 8 October: Mental health week, medical pressure points, standing up for public health
- 20 September: Experimental medicine, everyday racism and equity
- 5 September: How are we doing on healthcare policy? Is climate change the next public health emergency? Lessons from Ebola
- 22 August: The Ebola crisis deepens; poverty; rethinking health
- 8 August: Ebola and inequity; policy power and passion; our bodies as Temples of Doom?
- 25 July: HIV/AIDS; environmental health; sugar wars
- 11 July: Nutrition news; research milestones; prescribing problems
- 27 June: Big tobacco arguments; fad diets and pills; fairness, equality and human rights
- 13 June: Co-payments, COAG and cutting costs; racism is unhealthy; health-environment ties; tobacco tussles
- 1 June: Budget blues; the importance of culture; evidence-based mental health campaigns; examples of digital innovation
- 18 May: A big Budget wrap; a global shared challenge; reframing Indigenous health conversations
- 4 May: Budget speculation heightens; the screening debate; drugs, in all their forms; revolutionising healthcare
- 22 April: What the evidence uncovered; reaching out to vaccine skeptics; health funding waiting games
- 7 April: Workplace mental health, an Indigenous health mix-bag, and health budget predictions
- 10 March: Tackling childrens’ health, food and alcohol industry dramas, and society’s obsession with dieting
- 7 February: The latest cancer statistics, alcohol law reforms and challenges in the obesity battle
2013
- 13 December: An evidence-based Christmas, wins in Indigenous health, and a HIV scare in Sydney
- 29 November: Booze battles, drug dilemmas, rethinking service delivery in Indigenous health
- 15 November: A long way to go for mental health, Indigenous health student success stories and health reporting controversy
- 1 November: Putting social determinants front and centre
- 18 October: Tackling big picture public health issues
- 8 October: Climate hell in a handbasket, getting SDOH traction, Indigenous engagement, new ideas in public health
- 20 September: Cabinet reshuffles, research kerfuffles and obesity around the world
- 6 September: Election fever/malaise, care roadblocks, the impact of adversity, hopes and realities for Aboriginal health
- 23 August:Finally (some) health policies get an airing plus, female Indigenous voices, changing doctors’ ways
- 9 August: Mending Medicare, system stresses, nanny state debates, an unhealthy climate
- 26 July: The tobacco stain, wicked obesity problems, a new Aboriginal health vision and more
- 12 July: Reflections on NAIDOC week, health equity, the power of evidence, science matters
- 28 June: On politics, policy, research, and developments in Aboriginal health
- 14 June: Tobacco control, Closing the Gap, patient safety, pharma sagas and more
- 31 May: Introducing the Health Wrap
PUBLICATION DATE
29 June 2013
