Childhood obesity is increasing and is most common for children living in disadvantage. But it’s preventable if we begin from the start of life.
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Nearly all Indigenous Australian children have some form of otitis media, a middle ear infection that often leads to hearing loss.
The good and bad things that happen in early childhood set the stage for health and well-being throughout a person’s life.
There are several lessons that the world can learn from Brazil about how to rapidly reduce child stunting in 10 years.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot explains how the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, determine their risk of poor health.
How do inequities of wealth and income manifest in Australia? And what are the implications for the nation’s health?
We all like to think we are free agents and have huge degrees of agency. But, in reality, our health reflects the environments we live in.
Around 20% of Aboriginal births in Western Australia between 1996 and 2012 weren’t registered, new research shows. This has many social and health ramifications for their future.
Understanding genetics isn’t enough to solve our health problems – we need to look at where people live, too.
It could be that high levels of social disadvantage are what are actually being measured and smoking is a marker of this inequality.
An Aussie smile is an instant indicator of socioeconomic status, employability and self-esteem. It’s also a predictor of physical health. So it’s shocking that Australians’ dental health has not improved…
Refugees settling in Australia constantly face new challenges. They have to re-adjust to new income levels, cultural practices and language. They also face a new food environment, where many traditional…
Almost two-thirds of Australian adults and one in four children are overweight or obese. Excess weight is responsible for 7,200 deaths each year in Australia, as well one in five heart attacks, half of…
Australians have one the longest life expectancies in the world but are living with growing levels of lifestyle-induced chronic illness, according to the latest national health report card. The Australian…
Despite government claims that the budget would be fair and all Australians would contribute to the “budget rescue job”, reality has not supported these claims. And this is bad news for health and social…
Socioeconomic disadvantage and its impact on where we live and work (and how we get between the two), has enormous implications for health and well-being. But the picture is not as clear cut as many people…
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Sharon Friel considers the points where class and health interact. The unequal…
Watch the video of public health professor Rob Moodie interviewing Dr Kiran Martin below. Kiran Martin is the founder of Asha, a community health and development society that works with over 500,000 people…
The traditional view of health is a biomedical one – stop people from getting ill by preventing infection and treating disease. But a growing body of research showing that health is the result of social…
Fiona Stanley is the director of this year’s Melbourne Festival of Ideas: The Art and Science of Wellbeing, which opens today and continues until October 6, 2013. Here she explains the ethos of the Festival’s…
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
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ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity, Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Sydney; RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
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Professor of Health Equity, Stretton Health Equity, School of Public Health, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University
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Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiologist; Distinguished Professorial Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Caroline Homer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Director (Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), Burnet Institute
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
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Dean, Medical School, Curtin University
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Paediatrician and Director of Generation Victoria (GenV) , Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior Research Fellow in public health and public policy, Adelaide University
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Professor Population Nutrition, Deakin University
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Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Curtin Medical School Public Health Physician, Curtin University