Flinders Uni Public Health in Adelaide, South Australia | Medical and health

Flinders Uni Public Health

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 7221 8425

Address: Level 2 Health Sciences Building, Registry Road, Bedford Park 5042 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: www.flinders.edu.au/public-health

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25.01.2022 Tell Your Story: an excellent example of how public health can meaningfully engage with stigma that prevents quality access to health care. http://www.psy.unsw.edu.au//unsw-program-helping-refugees-

24.01.2022 A good example of what can happen when inequality is not addressed... #inequalitymakesussick http://theconversation.com/clearing-homeless-camps-compound

22.01.2022 More on the study of choice, responsibility and trust in childhood vaccination. Thanks for the thought-provoking word Professor Paul Ward et al.! http://www.tandfonline.com//pdf/10./13669877.2017.1391318

20.01.2022 Preventative mental health in secondary schools has just rolled out in the UK. A great step for reorienting health care services. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk//mental-health-first-aid_b https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/schools-programme/

18.01.2022 Parents who choose not to vaccinate their kids are often identified to be disagreeing with the mainstream understanding of health and illness. But - what is behind these decisions and could they be driven by another kind of logic? This piece led by Paul Ward starts down the path of understanding the viewpoint of not vaccinating. Fascinating qualitative work in critical public health. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

16.01.2022 Interested in both public health, equity, and this cosmopolitan life? This article might just be the one for you. http://theconversation.com/what-actually-is-a-good-city-806

14.01.2022 A primer on what's going on in the progress against infectious diseases. As public health practitioners we need to make sure that as well as making progress its benefits are equitably distributed! http://theconversation.com/four-of-the-most-lethal-infectio

13.01.2022 This is a thought-provoking read about the stories nations tell themselves - and how Australia is missing out on the distinction of its extraordinary and profound Indigenous heritage. https://www.theguardian.com//the-threadbare-stories-we-tel

12.01.2022 A high-paced article by The Conversation about how economic growth, environmental protection and population wellbeing intersect... "What is an economy for, if not to improve our wellbeing? Why exactly have we done so much damage to our water resources, soil, the liveability of our cities and to the other species with which we share this continent if we haven’t really improved our lives by doing it?" http://theconversation.com/why-a-population-of-say-15-milli

07.01.2022 For those of you who just finished learning about the social determinants of health in first semester; well, here's a good in-practice example. Keep it up Black Feminist Ranter - Celeste Liddle, these issues need to be loud! https://www.theguardian.com//without-the-basics-indigenous

07.01.2022 Cat Pausé takes aim at fat stigma and fat shaming in Australia. An excellent critique of how socio-cultural environments may act as a 'tool' of violence. http://theconversation.com/how-australias-discrimination-la

02.01.2022 Theresa May said today she'll rip up human rights laws if they impede new terror legislation. So here's a sketch inspired by Monty Python we published back in A...pril 2016 with Patrick Stewart: what has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us? We mean apart from the right to a fair trial, freedom from slavery, freedom from torture ... Warning: contains strong language.

01.01.2022 The Australian Health Promotion Association are holding an Open State - Health Advocacy Event: "Health Advocacy How to get results." A panel discussion with those in the know. 5 October from 6pm at Flinders in the City. Register at the link below: