The social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic have illustrated how important human connections are to health.
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Beyond the ‘literature of madness,’ the narratives about mental and physical health published today explore the interdependence of bodies and their environments.
Transcript of Don’t Call Me Resilient, Episode 5: Black health matters
When COVID-19 first appeared, some called it the great equalizer. But the facts quickly revealed a grim reality: COVID-19 disproportionately impacts racialized communities.
While many institutions pledged their support for anti-racism work this summer, a health researcher says these ideas need to go further to address the long-term health impacts of internalized racism.
COVID-19 has shown the flaws of a reactive health-care system designed to care for people who are already sick. A preventive approach would be more equitable, less expensive and keep us healthier.
COVID-19 ruthlessly picks on the most vulnerable in society. We’ve seen this in Australia and around the world.
The pandemic’s mental health toll is not distributed equally. Its impact is disproportionately felt by racialized groups, Indigenous Peoples, people with disabilities and those experiencing poverty.
South Africa faces high levels of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. The NHI is likely to battle to cope with treating large numbers of sick people.
Pandemic histories are useful for understanding COVID-19, but how they connect with race, public health, revolution, labour and colonialism are needed to explain the present and predict the future.
In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions and health care help to explain the pandemic’s racially disparate toll.
Maids were among Brazil’s earliest COVID-19 victims, infected by employers who had been to Italy. Now 39% of Brazilian ‘domésticas’ have been let go, most without severance or sick leave.
Canada’s public health-care system is one of the most well-developed in the world. And yet, many remote Indigenous communities are still not getting what they need.
From preventing emergency visits to understanding the context of a patient’s health issues, house calls have value in a modern medical practice.
A safe home, a working fridge and access to transport are all needed before western medicine has a chance of working in the long term. But a new way of providing care can help.
Loneliness is a bigger cause of death than a poor diet, obesity, alcohol consumption, and lack of exercise, and it’s on a par with heavy smoking. So let’s get talking about it.
One in four Australians is overweight or obese by the time they reach adolescence, but it’s difficult to predict who is at risk. These three questions can help.
A triple-bottom-line approach can be used to evaluate health-care interventions, such as treatment for schizophrenia.
When care is equity-oriented, patients report fewer depression and trauma symptoms, less chronic pain and improved quality of life.
South Africa has the potential to improve primary health care.
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Professor of Health Equity, ANU, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
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Professor of Health Equity, The Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University
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Perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist; distinguished professorial fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
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Caroline Homer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Director (Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), Burnet Institute
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Dean, Medical School, Curtin University
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Paediatrician and Director of Generation Victoria (GenV) , Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior Research Fellow in public health and public policy, University of Adelaide
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Professor Population Nutrition, Deakin University
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Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Curtin Medical School Public Health Physician, Curtin University
