With the advent of novel tobacco products and the tobacco industry falsely marketing them as less harmful, the adage “prevention is better than cure” has never been more important.
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Recent calls by Australian government ministers and senior officials to broaden the goods and services tax (GST) base to include fresh fruit and vegetables would make the population’s diet go from bad…
When the English cricket team toured Australia last year they were ridiculed for their dietary requirements long before their humiliation on the pitch. But while English cricket may be wanting, England’s…
One in nine Australians over the age of 25 (that’s 1.7 million people) has chronic kidney disease. That’s more than the number living with chronic lung disease, stroke, heart failure, and all types of…
The biggest causes of ill health in all but the very least developed countries are now non-communicable or chronic diseases. Lung cancer from smoking, obesity from an unhealthy diet and liver problems…
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia, George Institute for Global Health
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Director, Professor of Medicine, George Institute for Global Health
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Research fellow, George Institute for Global Health
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Professor and Director of Nephrology, Monash University
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Medical student, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer, Research on the Economics of Excisable Products,, University of Cape Town
