Public Health and the Intervention II
TweetThe joint seminar recently presented by the Menzies School of Health Research and the Public Health Association of Australia mentioned in a previous post is now available on the web. You can watch...
View ArticleWorrying for Kiwirrkurra
TweetKiwirrkurra suffered tremendous floods in March 2001. I wrote about the significant social dislocation and harm to the community members after they were evacuated. Remember this is a mob whose...
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Healthcare And The Use Of Social Media
TweetMany pharmacists (and those of other health professions) in Australia have no idea of the importance or uses of social media. Although some are making it to Facebook. Although this slide show is...
View ArticleHow the Influenza Virus Works
TweetNPR, the public radio broadcaster in the USA has developed a great animation showing how the influenza virus multiplies and spreads. The general principles in replication can be used when thinking...
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Indigenous Sexual Health
TweetMost of us involved in Indigenous Health can quote the health statistics by heart. They have ten times the amount of renal disease, remote indigenous Australians have ten times the number per head...
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Prescription Writing Pedantry and Medicare
Tweet This post is a sharp, but hopefully short glimpse in to the pedantry of prescription writing. I was recently contacted by a representative of an electronic patient management system. They had a...
View ArticleFish Pharm: Pharmaceutical Waste and the Environment
Tweet This was going to be a quick and easy post pinching the above video my mate Ves had on his blog showing the making of a information graphic for the National Geographic article Pharmaceuticals in...
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Australia Post and Supply of Medications
TweetIf you live out bush one of the few regular personal contacts you have is with the contractor providing a regular Australia Post particularly if they arrive at your property by air. The Royal...
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Kanyini Vascular Collaboration Update
Tweet The Kanyini Vascular Collaboration is a research project to try and identify barriers to best practice chronic disease management in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to improve their...
View ArticleCross Border Health: Renal Disease
TweetIt made the news nationwide when the Northern Territory banned those from adjoining border areas from going onto dialysis in Alice Springs no matter what family and tribal connections to the place...
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A Load of Pertussis
TweetCanada has a travel advisory for California. A health advisory on pertussis (whooping cough). In most countries pertussis is a notifiable illness. This year California has had a sevenfold increase...
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Building Parent Confidence
TweetProfessor Sven Silburn is a researcher at Menzies School of Health Research. He was worked in the area of clinical child psychology and has been employed at the Telethon Institute for Child Health...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – Fiscal Challenges
TweetThe 109 page briefing document provided to the new Finance Minister Penny Wong by the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Deregulation is now online. Well the “expurgated” version is...
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Healthcare and Social Media Discussion on Twitter
Tweet Last night Australia and New Zealand had their inaugural “Tweetup” using the hash-tag #hcsmanz with about 20 participants from nursing, medical, pharmacy, public health, IT and others. A Tweetup...
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Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record: #HCSMANZ Discussion on Twitter
Tweet This evening was the second Health Care and Social Media Tweetup. This week the discussion was on the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record About the same numbers, a few lurkers and a...
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Two Meetings Highlight Disparity in eHealth in Remote Australia
TweetMeeting 1. E-Health Conference, Revolutionising Australia’s Health Care An invitation only two day seminar on e-Health was held in Melbourne on November 30 and December 1st. Apparently a “draft...
View ArticleTwitter and Microblogging for Public Health
TweetWhat benefits can twitter and other microblogging sides bring to Public Health? This sideshow is a couple of years old now (hence the more detailed explanation of what Twitter etc is than I would...
View ArticleDrive Safe Arrive Safe
TweetA safe driving message from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Be safe these holidays. http://youtu.be/cxb4xrwMwGE
View ArticleMedications and the Bushfire Emergency in NSW
TweetThe medical observer today had an article on GPs involved in the response effort including helping patients out with lost scripts as people left their homes with minimal or no belongings. There...
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Pharmacists wanted by Save The Children to assist with Ebola Response
Tweet Save the Children are looking for pharmacists amongst other health professionals to set up an treatment centre in Sierra Leone for both case management and support to those who are affected. The...
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