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Essential vaccines: performance report 2021–22


This report provides an assessment of state and territory performance against the performance benchmarks outlined in the National Partnership on Essential Vaccines, for the assessment period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
Report

Good food is vital for brain health so we must change the food industry

Michael Berk, Rym Ayadi, Sarah Dunlop, Suzanne L. Dickson, Eric A. Storch, Melissa M. Lane, Lisa C. Brown, Kelly O’Brien, Mohamed Salama, Erin Smith, Ha Le, Agustín Ibáñez, Kavitha Kolappa, Jo-An Occhipinti, and Felice Jacka

This paper argues that today’s food environments and food systems around the world are dominated by the corporate-industrial food industry, and that this is undermining sustainable human development and public health on a global scale. It calls for an ecological approach to regulation that considers the economic, environmental, and political dimensions of complex food systems...
Journal article

Understanding public perceptions in social media responses to posts about acute severe hepatitis of unknown etiology in Indonesia: a qualitative study

Acute Severe Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology (ASHUE) emerged as a new global outbreak in Indonesia early May 2022, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to understand public reactions and responses to the emergence of ASHUE Indonesia and to Government-led disease prevention responses.
Literature review

Decolonising and critical approaches to community arts: centering relationality, communality, and power


The objective of this literature review is to examine the effects of previous community-based art projects that have been undertaken in local, national, and international settings. The focus is on the growing body of programs around the world that have used art to facilitate social connectedness and increased wellbeing.
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Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation 2023


This publication calls attention to the importance of social connection for individual health as well as on community-wide metrics of health and well-being, and conversely the significant consequences when social connection is lacking.