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Want to improve the nation's health? Start by reducing inequalities and improving living conditions

  • Written by Fran Baum, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Foundation Director, Southgate Institute for Health, Society & Equity, Flinders University
imageAcross Australia, low-income people lose about six years of life compared to their better-off compatriots. TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock

The 56th Boyer Lecture Series, exploring the social determinants of health, starts tonight. Over four lectures and four weeks, the World Medical Association president, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, will explore the...

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  1. Social determinants – how class and wealth affect our health
  2. Weekly Dose: Naloxone, how to save a life from opioid overdose
  3. Should we be forcing people with severe mental illness to have treatment they don't want?
  4. The failed history of tobacco harm reduction
  5. Tampon versus pad: why more women still choose the latter to manage periods
  6. Is Australia really being flooded by new killer drugs?
  7. Kids are more susceptible to brain injury, and concussion has implications beyond what we thought
  8. Health Check: what can you eat to help ease 'morning' sickness in pregnancy?
  9. How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?
  10. Young people with cancer should have affordable options to preserve their fertility
  11. Why males are more likely to die from conception to old age
  12. How to manage weight issues with your teenager when you're not meant to talk about weight
  13. Why obesity cannot be a 'left versus right' issue
  14. Explainer: arthrogryposis – the congenital disorder linked to Zika
  15. Weekly Dose: flibanserin, the drug that gives women one extra sexually satisfying experience every two months
  16. Emerging infertility treatment could be a less invasive and cheaper alternative to IVF
  17. Aleppo's dying children and shattered health system: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
  18. Doctors or activists? Who draws the line?
  19. Science or Snake Oil: is A2 milk better for you than regular cow’s milk?
  20. Health Check: should kids be given antibiotics in their first year?

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