Articles in Public health
Australians divided over OS-trained doctors
Australians are divided over importing overseas-trained doctors as an answer to the practitioner shortage, with almost half of the belief that we should not recruit doctors from overseas.
The 42% who believe we should recruit from …
The Age of the Cyberchondriac
In droves, Australians are heading online to self-diagnose. Almost three quarters of Australians have looked up health information online, and concerningly, for many it is replacing a trip to the doctor. With the …
The dark side of tanning
Incidence of Melanoma of the skin continues to increase. Yet, when it comes to skin cancer, Australians think it’s something that happens to someone else. In 2006 a survey conducted for the Cancer Institute of …
