Has your child fractured a bone? A new report shows it’s the leading type of injury for kids. But the causes of injury change as children grow older and differ between boys and girls.
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Running, jumping, tackling, not to mention handling the ball, means Aussie Rules players risk injuries to their hands and wrists serious enough to send them to the emergency department.
Australians are waiting too long for elective surgery, dental care and treatment for mental health. It’s no wonder health is a vote-changer.
The emotional injuries from trauma can be as disabling as the physical injuries. But in the US only a handful of trauma centers employ licensed psychologists to look after patients and and families.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says A&Es are seeing and treating people faster than any other country that measures performance. Is he right?
Scanning through the media coverage of the major parties’ health policies one could be forgiven for thinking that hospital beds are the key to health. Sure, hospital spending dominates the health budget…
With so many lurid reports of violence on our TV screens, it’s easy to think that the police know about all or most incidents. But they don’t. The National Crime Victimisation Survey in the US and the…
Overcrowding in emergency departments is not due to low-urgency patients using resources, as previously thought. Instead…
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Violence and Society Research Group and Professor of Surgery, Cardiff University
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Emeritus Professor in Health Policy, University of Huddersfield
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor, College of Medicine, University of Florida
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Associate Professor and Director, Psychological Services, College of Medicine,, University of Florida
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Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Monash University
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Injury epidemiologist | Expert Witness, UNSW Sydney
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Director of Trauma and Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Children's Hospital
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Professor of Public Health; Head of School, Population Health, UNSW Sydney
