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The rise and rise of health spending — but don’t blame the old people

Health spending and health employment are surging in Australia. But it’s not inevitable, as the experience of other countries shows. And it’s not necessarily being driven by the ageing population.

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Battle Scars: fighting the ADF’s warrior culture on mental health

Soldiers are told to be tough, but mental scars go undiagnosed. A new Crikey investigation Battle Scars examines post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues in younger veterans.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

State of health in the 2013 election

If journalists weren’t so busy calling a horse race, how might they cover health in the run-up to the federal election? Melissa Sweet enlists her fellow Croakey contributors to examine how health in the 2013 federal election.

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Bottoms up: the non-crisis of Australia’s alcohol consumption

The constant claims about the dangers of rising alcohol use in Australia don’t match reality. Crikey fact checks some of the statements made by the wowser lobby.

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Preventative health debate: in defence of liberty and diversity

The problem with the preventive health movement is the refusal to accept a basic trade-off of Western society — that liberty is at times more important than maximising community welfare.

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Australia’s reputation at risk over medical intern crisis

Some 150 international medical students don’t have intern placements for next due. The situation is critical, for students and the healthcare sector, writes Sydney University Medical Dean Bruce Robinson.

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Doctor divides uni: gay student told to seek hormone testing

Students and staff at the University of Canberra are divided over the actions of a Catholic doctor at the university medical centre who refuses to prescribe contraception and suggested a gay student have a hormone test.

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What a difference a year makes for the governemnt’s health plan

Back in August last year the Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced her version of keeping the promise made by her predecessor Kevin Rudd to end the blame game over improving the public hospital system.

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A half billion dollar cut

At John Hopkins University in the United States they estimate that a fall in the rate of male circumcision from a current 55% rate to Europe’s 10% level would add an annual net $500 million to health care costs.

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Counting the cost of mental illness in men

This week saw the release of the report Counting the Cost: The Impact of Young Men’s Mental Health on the Australian Economy. The issues of mental health treatment for young men are critical, writes Sebastian Rosenberg.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

Why you should care about aged care reforms

For those who’ve been left wanting more detail about the Federal Government’s aged care package, Rebecca de Boer offers an overview and explains the changes to community care.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

The unhealthy trifecta: smokes, booze & gambling

There are similarities between the tobacco and alcohol industries. It’s time to include the gambling industry in this analysis, says Charles Livingstone.

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Do all patients get offered possibly diseased organs (or just Hinch?)

Derryn Hinch revealed he was told by doctors that the new liver may be infected with HIV or hepatitis before his surgery. Do many patients get offered risky organs? asks Bianca Kerr.

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Productivity is complicated — except when it comes to competition

The biggest single brake on Australian productivity is the mining industry, where productivity has declined by more than a quarter in the past two years, an analysis of ABS data reveals.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

What was missing from Wayne Swan’s essay in The Monthly

Wayne Swan’s essay on inequality in The Monthly was on the right track but the Treasurer should acquaint himself with the economic and social benefits of taking action to reduce health inequalities, says Professor Fran Baum.

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Drugs, diabetes and cholesterol

Crikey readers have their say.

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Welching — err welshing — on Wilkie

Crikey readers have their say.

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An apple a day …

The Australian Medical Association came out swinging yesterday in response to an article in The Medical Journal of Australia by Dr Tony Webber, a GP who until recently headed the Medicare watchdog.

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Where have all the flowers gone?

Crikey readers have their say.

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Crikey Blogs | ECONOMY|

Why we need healthy housing policy

Housing stress is in the headlines as a result of a new report from The National Housing Supply Council. It coincides with further new research about the need to link health and housing policy, writes Caroline Chen.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

Home births: don’t just focus on the statistics

Home birth will not go away, it is here to stay, so let us all share the responsibility for making it safe and satisfying, as should be our goal with all maternity care options, says associate professor of midwifery Hannah Dahlen.

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The Sydney Morning Herald | LINKS|

Sydney: Australia’s coked up capital

Cocaine use in on the rise in Australia, particularly in Sydney and particularly amongst high-earning individuals who would never call themselves drug addicts. Joel Meares investigates the social, health and political issues of the white powder.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Climate change a ‘grave threat’ to health and security

Over in the UK, researchers examining the health and security implications of climate change are finding some worrying results. Think mass migration and humanitarian crisis, reports Melissa Sweet.

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Crikey Blogs | COMPANIES|

Pharmacy Guild deal with Blackmores ends in tears

Some extremely interesting conversations must have been occurring behind closed doors in pharmacy-land, in the wake of the disastrous deal between the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores, reports Melissa Sweet.

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Crikey Clarifier: what is a ‘superbug’ and how does penicillin destroy them?

Last week drug company CSL wrote to hospitals, advising them to start rationing an intravenous form of penicillin. But will it increase superbugs and what are they anyway? Crikey intern Greg Foyster investigates.

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