In some parts of Australia, patients are twice to three times more likely to avoid seeing their GP because they can’t afford it, according to figures released today.
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Every traveller forms impressions about patterns of frequently or seldom seen cultural differences when visiting other countries. You see far fewer women than men on the streets of more conservative Islamic…
Elections Singapore-style are so heavily stacked in favour of the PAP, which has ruled for 56 years, that the country’s newly re-elected government is more authoritarian than democratic.
Dernier volet de la série en trois articles sur les enjeux des négociations qui se tiendront à Paris à partir du 30 novembre prochain.
Après le très décevant sommet des Nations unies sur le climat en 2009, il y a de bonnes raisons d’espérer que la COP21 connaisse un sort plus heureux.
Alors que le prix Nobel de la paix vient d'être décerné aux organisations chargées du dialogue national en Tunisie, retour sur la situation des femmes qui se battent pour préserver leurs droits.
A perverse funding incentive creates or maintains the dependency of older people livin
Alors que la COP21 de Paris approche, une série en trois articles pour identifier les enjeux de la prochaine grande conférence internationale sur le changement climatique.
To make a meaningful difference to climate change, businesses will have to break out of a cycle of exploiting the earth’s resources in ever-more creative ways.
What are the key challenges for ministers entering new portfolios in Malcolm Turnbull’s first cabinet? The Conversation asked experts in key policy areas to respond.
The single diagnosis of cerebral palsy covers a wide range of conditions with many different contributing factors that interact in varying ways.
In the online dating world it was once enough just to “Like” a person to indicate your interest. So what does it mean to “Super Like” a potential love interest?
The social media giant says it takes online abuse seriously. But there are calls for it to do more amid reports it’s not doing enough to deal with threats or abuse.
What is it like to be a woman working in the sciences? While there are hurdles to overcome, there are joys as well. The new SAGE initiative hopes to make STEM even more amenable to women.
Recent events in Mexico’s drug war could easily have been depicted in Don Winslow’s twin novels The Power of the Dog and The Cartel. Drug war capitalism is, at times, stranger than fiction.
Perhaps because we all need sleep, we have an enduring interest in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, which causes a constant irrepressible need for sleep.
On closing the asylums, Australia failed to invest in an alternative model of community mental health care. So there are few alternatives between the GP surgery and the hospital emergency department.
If some of the laws of physics were only infinitesimally different, we would simply not exist. It almost looks like the universe itself was built for life. But how can that be?
The housing and housing affordability crisis will not be solved by a clamp-down on one group of buyers.
Neural Knitworks, an event first staged for National Science Week in 2014, has since grown into an Australia-wide engagement project promoting connections between knitting and brain health.
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Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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School of Life and Environmental Sciences Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
