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Medical care

Report

Availability and accessibility of diagnostic imaging equipment around Australia: report


This inquiry considered key issues relating to diagnostic imaging services, including geographic disparities, Commonwealth subsidies, the costs for non-subsidised services, and how governments can improve accessibility to these essential services.
Journal article

Organisational capacity and its relationship to research use in six Australian health policy agencies

This research article aims to measure the extent to which a range of tools and systems to support research use were available within six Australian agencies with a role in health policy, and examine whether this was related to the extent of engagement with, and use of research in policymaking by their staff.
Journal article

The power of talk and power in talk: a systematic review of Indigenous narratives of culturally safe healthcare communication

This study aimed to explore Indigenous narrative accounts of healthcare access within qualitative research papers, to better understand Indigenous views on culturally safe healthcare and health communication represented in that literature.
Report

The state of self care in Australia


This resource presents a review of the ways in which Australia is attempting to encourage and enable individuals to look after their own health and wellbeing. The role of 'self care' in effective health management and treatment is one of the major gaps in Australia's health policy framework.
Report

Fairness in precision medicine


This report examines the potential for biased and discriminatory outcomes in the emerging field of “precision medicine.”