Category: Wellbeing

When we invest in the wellbeing of the medical workforce, we are ultimately investing in the quality and safety of care delivered to the community.

Beyond Hysterical is a new five-part podcast series investigating solutions to medical misogyny. Funded by the Walkley Foundation’s Solutions Journalism Fund, Beyond Hysterical was created by award-winning freelance health journalist Grace Jennings-Edquist (formerly of the ABC, Bloomberg News, and Mamamia). It’s a not-for-profit, independently made project.

A a family violence educator with Safer Families and my experience with the culturally and linguistically diverse communities ( CALD), the government’s announcement to allocate $952.2M is welcome to support the Leaving Violence Program over 5 years.

Hearing loss is very common. It’s the second most common medical problem after joint and muscle pains in people aged between 60-70 years. That makes hearing loss more common than asthma, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. If left unmanaged it can have significant physical and mental health consequences and even bring on dementia.

This inSight+ article, authored by Clinical Professor Leanne Rowe AM discusses how under the recently amended Sex Discrimination Act, the medical profession risks attracting the scrutiny of the Australian Human Rights Commission unless sex discrimination, sexual harassment, sex-based harassment, and victimisation of complainants or witnesses are eliminated in its workplaces and training programs.