A popular and complex subscription-based collection of 6 medical and health care databases. These databases offer access to results of both evidence-based medicine and clinical trials. Although a license fee is required with subscription, in many...
Worldwide, men are living longer and healthier lives than ever before. Global life expectancy at birth in 2015 was 69.1 years for males, an increase of five years since 2000 – the fastest since the...
The years 2014 and 2015 encompassed a significant period of commemoration of the First World War (1914–18) – the Great War, as it is also known. The Australian Government has set aside $8.4 million to...
Many international days are established by United Nations resolutions. For example, 24 March is World Tuberculosis Day, which is followed closely by World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April. World No-Tobacco Day falls at the...
One of the major problems we identified in our previous article was access to health services. The simple realities of large distances and low population densities make service provision far more difficult in rural than...
This article focuses on the problem of violence against women in rural and regional Australia, and how it is being addressed. In 2012, an estimated 49 per cent of all Australian men aged 18 years and...
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2008, long-term health conditions due to injury were 30 per cent more likely in non-metropolitan Australians than in those who lived in major cities. This is probably due to...
Western Alliance’s view of research engagement as positive for health professionals’ and health services’ performance is widely shared. However, it is also true that the health services sector is seriously under-researched. At the recent Health...
Although definitions of stress vary between academic disciplines, generally speaking the term ‘stress’ is used to refer to thoughts, feelings and physiological reactions that occur in response to stressful events.1 A physical response to stress...
Epworth HealthCare is Victoria’s largest not-for-profit health care provider, and in 2016 will care for over 200 000 patients, across 10 hospitals in Victoria. Established in 1920, Epworth is a leading service provider of acute...