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Healing HealthDecarbonising our healthcare, a prescription for actionImages of single-use face masks have become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking conversations about the sustainability of our healthcare systems. In this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Dr Rebecca Patrick and Dr Mike Forrester from the Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) to explore just how sustainable our current healthcare system is, and what can be done to improve it for the health of our future generations. Rebecca is an executive member of IHT's Determinants of Health team where her research focus is climate change and health as well as sustainable healthcare, and Director of...
2022-11-0135 min
Healing HealthDecarbonising our healthcare, a prescription for actionImages of single-use face masks have become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking conversations about the sustainability of our healthcare systems. In this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Dr Rebecca Patrick and Dr Mike Forrester from the Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) to explore just how sustainable our current healthcare system is, and what can be done to improve it for the health of our future generations. Rebecca is an executive member of IHT's Determinants of Health team where her research focus is climate change and health as well as sustainable healthcare, and Director of...
2022-11-0135 minHealing HealthPutting wealth before health: junk food advertising and the internetIn this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Associate Professor Kathryn Backholer and Ruby Brooks from the Institute for Health Transformation’s Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE) to delve into Kathryn and Ruby’s research on junk food advertising.A recent study led by Kathryn and Ruby demonstrated how junk food companies have turned to platforms such as TikTok to turn children into brand ambassadors for their products. Together, Renee, Kathryn and Ruby unpack the study’s findings and discuss an upcoming study that will use world-first technology to quantify exactly how much harmful advert...
2022-10-1724 minHealing HealthPutting wealth before health: junk food advertising and the internetIn this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Associate Professor Kathryn Backholer and Ruby Brooks from the Institute for Health Transformation’s Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE) to delve into Kathryn and Ruby’s research on junk food advertising.A recent study led by Kathryn and Ruby demonstrated how junk food companies have turned to platforms such as TikTok to turn children into brand ambassadors for their products. Together, Renee, Kathryn and Ruby unpack the study’s findings and discuss an upcoming study that will use world-first technology to quantify exactly how much harmful advert...
2022-10-1724 minHealing HealthUnmasking healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemicIn this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Professor Linda Sweet and Dr Sara Holton from the Institute for Health Transformation’s Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research. Together, they discuss findings from their research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia’s healthcare workers and students, the expansion of this work internationally, and how Australia can get better at monitoring its healthcare staff and sectors.Sara Holton’s recent study saw researchers from the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research partner with Western Health to investigate the psychosocial effects of the COVID...
2022-10-0531 minHealing HealthUnmasking healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemicIn this episode, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Professor Linda Sweet and Dr Sara Holton from the Institute for Health Transformation’s Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research. Together, they discuss findings from their research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia’s healthcare workers and students, the expansion of this work internationally, and how Australia can get better at monitoring its healthcare staff and sectors.Sara Holton’s recent study saw researchers from the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research partner with Western Health to investigate the psychosocial effects of the COVID...
2022-10-0531 minHealing HealthBridging science and community during the COVID-19 pandemicIn this episode, recorded on 16 August 2022, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Alfred Deakin Professor Catherine Bennett and Associate Professor Hassan Vally from the Institute for Health Transformation’s Determinants of Health team. Together, they unpack Australia’s recent Omicron wave, reflect on their experiences as science communicators during the pandemic and discuss the role of social media in science communication.Catherine and Hassan have spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to public discourse, media, social media and governmental reviews that have shaped the legacy of the pandemic. They have contributed to more than 20,000 media items sinc...
2022-09-2042 minHealing HealthBridging science and community during the COVID-19 pandemicIn this episode, recorded on 16 August 2022, host Dr Renee Beale is joined by Alfred Deakin Professor Catherine Bennett and Associate Professor Hassan Vally from the Institute for Health Transformation’s Determinants of Health team. Together, they unpack Australia’s recent Omicron wave, reflect on their experiences as science communicators during the pandemic and discuss the role of social media in science communication.Catherine and Hassan have spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to public discourse, media, social media and governmental reviews that have shaped the legacy of the pandemic. They have contributed to more than 20,000 media items sinc...
2022-09-2042 minHealing HealthTalking all things COVID with Professor Catherine BennettJoin renowned epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett in a conversation about what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about our health systems – the good, the bad and the untold.
2021-07-2349 minHealing HealthTalking all things COVID with Professor Catherine BennettJoin renowned epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett in a conversation about what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about our health systems – the good, the bad and the untold.
2021-07-2349 minHealing HealthHow do we improve care for older people?Recorded pre-COVID-19 and the shocking toll the pandemic has taken on our elderly, this conversation with one of Australia’s leading nursing professors examines how partnership-centred care could help overcome some systemic issues in aged care.
2020-09-3029 min
Healing HealthHow do we improve care for older people?Recorded pre-COVID-19 and the shocking toll the pandemic has taken on our elderly, this conversation with one of Australia’s leading nursing professors examines how partnership-centred care could help overcome some systemic issues in aged care.
2020-09-3029 min
Healing HealthHow can food companies prevent obesity?Unhealthy diets are creating a public health crisis in Australia, with our rising rates of obesity costing us billions of dollars in healthcare for preventable diseases. What role do our food companies play in this crisis and how seriously are they taking the problem?
2020-09-0239 minHealing HealthHow can food companies prevent obesity?Unhealthy diets are creating a public health crisis in Australia, with our rising rates of obesity costing us billions of dollars in healthcare for preventable diseases. What role do our food companies play in this crisis and how seriously are they taking the problem?
2020-09-0239 minHealing HealthThe philosophy of health economicsDelivering healthcare and prevention interventions is an expensive business. How do we help decision-makers with limited budgets decide whether they’re doing the best they can with the resources they have? How do we decide what ‘doing the best you can’ looks like? And just what does philosophy have to do with economics?
2020-08-0340 minHealing HealthThe philosophy of health economicsDelivering healthcare and prevention interventions is an expensive business. How do we help decision-makers with limited budgets decide whether they’re doing the best they can with the resources they have? How do we decide what ‘doing the best you can’ looks like? And just what does philosophy have to do with economics?
2020-08-0340 minHealing HealthHow do we make hospitals safer places for patients?One in every ten of the 11 million Australians admitted to hospital each year suffers some kind of harm – from falls to infection – that’s unrelated to their reason for being in hospital in the first place. What’s behind these incidents and how can they be prevented?
2020-06-3049 minHealing HealthHow do we make hospitals safer places for patients?One in every ten of the 11 million Australians admitted to hospital each year suffers some kind of harm – from falls to infection – that’s unrelated to their reason for being in hospital in the first place. What’s behind these incidents and how can they be prevented?
2020-06-3049 minHealing HealthHow do gambling ads influence us – and our kids?Aussies are known as a nation of punters who would bet on two flies crawling up a wall, but our increasing exposure to gambling advertising isn’t good for us, our kids, or our wallets. What does the research say about how we can best protect children from the 'normalisation' of gambling?
2020-06-0147 min
Healing HealthHow patient participation can enhance recoveryHow do we get patients back on their feet more quickly after surgery? It’s an important question, because patient participation in their own recovery is an essential element of high quality care. It’s just trickier to achieve in acute care settings, but fortunately there’s an app for that.
2020-04-3028 minHealing HealthHow patient participation can enhance recoveryHow do we get patients back on their feet more quickly after surgery? It’s an important question, because patient participation in their own recovery is an essential element of high quality care. It’s just trickier to achieve in acute care settings, but fortunately there’s an app for that.
2020-04-3028 minHealing HealthIs there such a thing as 'too much medicine'?The OECD estimates around 20% of all health care activity and expenditure in high-income countries is wasted and of little or no value. Much of this waste is driven by over-diagnosis and over-treatment – when patients receive services that could never really have helped them.
2020-04-0245 min
Healing HealthIs there such a thing as 'too much medicine'?The OECD estimates around 20% of all health care activity and expenditure in high-income countries is wasted and of little or no value. Much of this waste is driven by over-diagnosis and over-treatment – when patients receive services that could never really have helped them.
2020-04-0245 minHealing HealthReducing childhood obesity - for the community, by the communityOne third of Australian primary school children are now overweight or obese. Global expert in obesity prevention Professor Steve Allender explores the complex drivers behind the statistics and shares good news about successful community-led obesity prevention programs that really make a difference.
2020-03-2040 minHealing HealthReducing childhood obesity - for the community, by the communityOne third of Australian primary school children are now overweight or obese. Global expert in obesity prevention Professor Steve Allender explores the complex drivers behind the statistics and shares good news about successful community-led obesity prevention programs that really make a difference.
2020-03-2040 min
Healing HealthHow changing our food systems can change population healthUnhealthy diets are the biggest contributor to burden of disease in Australia and internationally, but the ability to eat a healthy diet is not just about personal food choices. Internationally renowned public health researcher Professor Anna Peeters puts the case for why food environments need to change in order to make healthy options readily available and more attractive than unhealthy options.
2020-03-1937 min
Healing HealthHow changing our food systems can change population healthUnhealthy diets are the biggest contributor to burden of disease in Australia and internationally, but the ability to eat a healthy diet is not just about personal food choices. Internationally renowned public health researcher Professor Anna Peeters puts the case for why food environments need to change in order to make healthy options readily available and more attractive than unhealthy options.
2020-03-1937 min
Healing HealthWelcome to Healing HealthImagine our health systems were people. Right now, they’d probably be feeling sick, overwhelmed and stressed. It’s time to start a conversation about the health of our healthcare systems.Presented by Deakin University’s Institute for Health Transformation, ‘Healing Health’ explores some of the biggest issues facing our health systems and the best ways to deliver care.Each episode highlights the different work being done locally to transform how we deliver prevention and care globally.Join host Amber Petty and some of Australia’s leading health researchers as they explore various cures for the ills of...
2020-03-0500 minHealing HealthWelcome to Healing HealthImagine our health systems were people. Right now, they’d probably be feeling sick, overwhelmed and stressed. It’s time to start a conversation about the health of our healthcare systems.Presented by Deakin University’s Institute for Health Transformation, ‘Healing Health’ explores some of the biggest issues facing our health systems and the best ways to deliver care.Each episode highlights the different work being done locally to transform how we deliver prevention and care globally.Join host Amber Petty and some of Australia’s leading health researchers as they explore various cures for the ills of...
2020-03-0500 min