This review aims to determine if open defecation is a public health issue in outdoor recreation and camping areas in Australia. Method: A literature review was conducted using the following search engines: CINAHL, Informit Database, Scopus, ProQuest Science & Technology, Medline (Ovid) and EBSCO...
helping to accelerate Australia’s progress towards closing the gap in life expectancy. “Some of the issues we’re looking to explore is where the health system works well for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, and where it needs to be improved,” Professor Ward said. “As...
wetting the bed. According toCincinnati Children’s Hospital, “many children who wet the bed may have an overactive bladder and a small bladder capacity.” Enuresis runs in families so children who wet the bed often have parents or family members who had the same issue when they were young...
In Australia, Outdoor Health (OH) is a recent umbrella term adopted and promoted by the Australian Association for Bush Adventure Therapy (AABAT), with the aim of creating a ‘bigger tent’ to include a more diverse range of outdoor- and nature-based interventions (AABAT Inc,2021a). Some...
CANBERRA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Australian voters have rated cost of living as their biggest issue ahead of the general election. According to a YouGov survey published by News Corp Australia on Monday, 50 percent of respondents said the cost of food, petrol and household bills will determine...
…The bill also sets a starting point for Medicare negotiations at 1.2 times the average price of drugs in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the U.K.—all of which have some form of socialized health system. …foreign price controls have reduced access to breakthrough treatments....
& Feng, X. Association of urban green space with mental health and general health among adults in Australia. JAMA Netw. Open 2, e198209 (2019). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Markevych, I. et al. Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: theoretical and methodological...
Air pollution poses a persuasive threat to global health, demonstrating widespread detrimental effects on populations worldwide. Exposure to pollutants, notably particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 µm (PM2.5), has been unequivocally linked to a s
“Our research will work towards creating a self-determined future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and an end to systemic racism in Australia.” To read the media release in full, gohere. Image source: The University of Queensland. ...
Local Government Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) in Australia, and elsewhere, have been identified as the ideal workforce to tackle many of the health protection aspects of climate change adaptation. As such, there is a need to ensure a resilient and skilled environmental health workforce to ...