This report brings together the latest perinatal mental health screening data from four state and territory health authorities and examines how these vary by maternal characteristics and behaviours, birth settings, and birth outcomes. It also identifies a lack of national data and the report suggests improving data reporting and integration is necessary, especially to support...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are eligible for an annual health check specifically tailored to their needs, funded through Medicare. This report, updated biennially from 2024, presents the latest data and trends in the use of health checks and follow-up services, disaggregated by age, sex and geography. For the first time, it also presents...

In order to alleviate the burden of disease caused by diabetes in Australia, this report asserts that the primary aim must be prevention, and it is very important that every strategy possible is used as part of a comprehensive preventative response, requiring an all-of-government approach.

This report provides advice on current neonatal hearing screening data and practices across the states and territories, and the opportunities for establishing a national data collection, including recommended next steps.

In this paper, the author explores the challenges of implementing policy advice when moving from the global (in the form of the World Health Organization) to the local (Australian Indigenous communities). The paper also examines change in societal policies, compares experiences across societies, and tracks advances in knowledge of what works in different contexts.