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It's the housing sector that could do most for winter health.
Antimicrobial stewardship is proving effective, but we're not fully across what is happening.
A study that shows GPs are prescribing about five million too many antibiotic scripts a year means we have to take a radical new approach to reducing use of these drugs.
Living with a chronic disease is hard work. Today the federal government announced its intention to “revolutionise" the way chronic diseases and complex conditions are cared for.
Victoria's Royal Commission into Family Violence will today hear how the health system can better respond to partner abuse, with the help of trained professionals and broader, government support.
New guidelines launched by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners aim to help doctors educate women about the variety of genital appearance and stop them having unnecessary surgery.
Australia spent $16 billion on GP-related health care in 2012-13. Given that our public health system means each of us is paying for health care through our taxes, what should we expect from doctors?
With GPs facing greater economic pressure and the health minister considering legislative change to make it easier for GP to charge them, GP co-payments, like Lazarus, may rise again from the dead.
American medical graduates enter hospital training with a debt of around US$160,000 if they attended a public medical school, or US$190,000 if they attended a private school. In the United Kingdom, fees…
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Professor, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Emeritus Professor of General Practice, University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, Family Medicine Research Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Education & Training, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Analyst, Family Medicine Research Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Director of the Family Medicine Research Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of General Practice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women's Hospital and the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
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Head of Department of General Practice, Chair of Primary Care Research, Deputy Head, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic Centre, University of Melbourne
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Junior research group leader, Social epidemiology, University of Bielefeld
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Research fellow, University of Dundee
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Associate Director, Scottish Improvement Science Collaborating Centre, University of Dundee
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Professor in Medical Statistics, University of Bristol
