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After breast cancer: 5 changes you can make to stay healthy
Every year, more than 20,000 Australians – mostly women – are diagnosed with breast cancer. If you’re one of them or know someone who is,...
Nov 5, 20225 min read
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Lush grasslands, higher allergy risks – what hay fever sufferers can expect from another season
Janet Davies, Queensland University of Technology; Alfredo Huete, University of Technology Sydney, and Paul Beggs, Macquarie University...
Nov 1, 20223 min read
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$5 million in funding to support children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The Healthy Communities Foundation Australia (THCFA) and the University of Sydney have been awarded funding to expand services for...
Oct 10, 20222 min read
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Australia is dragging its feet on healthy eating. In 5 years we’ve made woeful progress
Australia is falling behind other countries in addressing the unhealthy state of our diets. Several other countries, including the United...
Jul 1, 20224 min read
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Urgent Need for Rural Health JobKeeper Package
The Healthy Communities Foundation Australia (THCFA) Chief Executive Officer, Mark Burdack, has today called on the State and Federal...
Apr 8, 20223 min read
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Front-line nurses, burnt-out or on the brink.
Pre-Covid, the healthcare system was already struggling. It’s time to invest in primary care and best practices to take that weight off...
Mar 24, 20224 min read
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Healthy Communities: A case for structural change in how we manage our health
Looking at our health system from an outsider’s perspective, governments wanting to reduce the unsustainable growth of health budgets should
Feb 14, 20226 min read
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Building on Strengths: Challenging the Rural Health Deficit Discourse
They say 'necessity is the mother of all invention'. In this regard, rural and remote Australia has a lot of which to be proud in its...
Aug 20, 20214 min read
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OPINION: A holistic and integrated approach to social determinants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that only 20 percent of health outcomes can be attributed to access to health and medical...
Aug 19, 20214 min read
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OPINION: A Country Practice: Community Engaged Health Care
A Country Practice screened on Australian televisions from 1981 to 1994. It portrayed the life of rural doctors living and working in a...
Aug 18, 20214 min read
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