August 2022: preventive health in the news

The list is not comprehensive and mainly focusses on topics relevant to the work of the Prevention Centre. Some articles may be behind paywalls but we try to avoid them.

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• How this campaign is fighting to end unhealthy advertising to children
  Croakey, 31 August 2022
• Harnessing the power of nation building to strengthen Indigenous health and wellbeing
  Croakey, 31 August 2022
• Lockdowns may have lifted long ago, but COVID-era food relief services are busier than ever
  ABC News, 31 August 2022
• CSIRO issues report on preparing for the next pandemic
  ABC News, 30 August 2022
• Leveraging policy to prevent childhood obesity in general practice
  MJA Insight, 29 August 2022
• ‘Dirty Ashtray Award’ over e-cigarettes as survey shows widespread community concern about vaping
  ABC News, 29 August 2022
• Poll suggests Aussies would back bans on junk food, gambling and alcohol TV advertising
  ABC News, 29 August 2022
• ‘A craving lasts for 15 minutes’: Sober advice from alcohol coaches
  Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 2022
• Students feature in TV promotion to reduce smoking and vaping rates in young Indigenous people
  ABC News, 29 August 2022
• The role of clinical decision tools in chronic disease care
  newsGP, 26 August 2022
• ‘Oh well, wine o’clock’: what midlife women told us about drinking – and why it’s so hard to stop
  The Conversation, 25 August 2022
• Can we build back fairer? Health promotion panel calls for more action to reduce inequalities
  Croakey, 24 August 2022
• The vicious cycle of depression and obesity
  Nature, 24 August 2022
• These harrowing cancer statistics can actually be good news
  Sydney Morning Herald, 23 August 2022
• Exercise shown to reduce COVID infection, severity and mortality
  newsGP, 23 August 2022
• GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS
  The Guardian (UK), 22 August 2022
• Melbourne mulls extending smoking ban to areas outside city landmarks
  The Age, 22 August 2022
• Reimagining public value: A report summary
  The Mandarin, 22 August 2022
• Sugar substitutes can alter gut microbiome and affect blood glucose tolerance in humans: study
  ABC News, 20 August 2022
• Australia falling behind on protecting children from unhealthy food and drink advertising
  Croakey, 19 August 2022
• Cost now biggest turn-off to smoking
  University of Queensland News, 17 August 2022
• As COVID reduces Aboriginal health services in Central Australia, health leaders call for action
  Croakey, 17 August 2022
• Thumbs down for new food advertising code that fails to protect Australian children
  Croakey, 17 August 2022
• Aboriginal communities hungry for food security
  Research Australia INSPIRE Magazine, 16 August 2022
• What is the least amount of exercise we can do to be healthy and fit?
  Sydney Morning Herald, 16 August 2022
• Is fake meat healthy? And what’s actually in it?
  The Conversation, 16 August 2022
• Australian rental homes colder and more damp than WHO safety standards
  The Guardian, 16 August 2022
• Lack of public bariatric surgery potentially “substandard care”
  MJA Insight, 15 August 2022
• Stop telling fat people their bodies are costing our healthcare system
  Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2022
• The history of Australia’s drinking culture from rum as a currency to non-alcoholic wine
  ABC News, 15 August 2022
• ‘Our world has changed to make it easy to put on excess weight’
  Sydney Morning Herald, 14 August 2022
• New mobile clinic to treat homeless with chronic health problems who are living on Sydney’s streets
  ABC News, 14 August 2022
• Long Covid clinic wait times blow out to five months as Australia’s health experts call for national approach
  The Guardian, 14 August 2022
• Vegetarian women more likely to fracture hips in later life, study shows
  The Guardian, 11 August 2022
• A new workplace portal for all things pregnancy and baby-related
  Childmags, 11 August 2022
• Almost 200,000 Australians don’t have safe drinking water, new report finds
  ABC News, 11 August 2022
• Swapping salt for substitutes reduces risk of stroke and heart conditions – study
  The Guardian, 10 August 2022
• Plant-based fast food no ‘silver bullet’ for health and environment concerns
  The New Daily, 9 August 2022
• States jockeying to host a centre for disease control
  Australian Financial Review, 9 August 2022
• Healthy alcohol ‘spin’ misleads consumers
  Canberra times, 9 August 2022
• ‘We’re in trouble’: Australia risks food insecurity, expert warns
  Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2022
• GP-turned-MP to demand action on junk food advertising
  Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 2022
• Diabetes rates in Central Australia among highest in the world, new research shows
  ABC News, 6 August 2022
• Tobacco giant’s cash for vapes scheme paused after backlash from Australian health experts
  The Guardian, 5 August 2022
• PM says Commonwealth has begun liasing with states over a centre for disease control, does not reveal timeframe
  Canberra times, 4 August 2022
• Childcare food falls short of guidelines
  The New Daily, 4 August 2022
• Cost of living pressures lead to food insecurity and fears of chronic health conditions
  ABC News, 3 August 2022
• Developing transformative visions for planetary health equity and healthier futures
  Croakey, 2 August 2022
• Australians facing $15 pints as largest beer tax hike in decades looms
  9News, 1 August 2022
• New ad code fails to protect children from unhealthy food marketing
  Mumbrella, 1 August 2022
• More than half of regional Australians are not seeking medical help for chronic pain due to isolation, survey finds
  ABC News, 1 August 2022
• Long COVID should make us rethink disability – and the way we offer support to those with ‘invisible conditions’
  The Conversation, 1 August 2022
• PM’s desired referendum question for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
  The Mandarin, 1 August 2022

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