Topics: Primary care
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Meet Pippy Walker
From an early age Pippy Walker was into sport, playing competitive hockey, water polo, swimming, running and surf life saving. It led her into a career in exercise and nutrition. -
New funding to drive action in preventing chronic disease
The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre has been awarded $7.7 million by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to continue its work on the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic disease. -
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Time to broaden our horizons: Professor Andrew Wilson
Australia’s prevention community should expand its focus to consider a broader range of chronic conditions and more diverse risk factors, Prevention Centre Director Professor Andrew Wilson has told the Prevention 2018 Conference. -
Time for a rethink in how we approach chronic pain
One in five Australians now lives with chronic pain, and most have little access to specialist pain services. But there is a better way. And it requires a radical change in how we think about pain. -
Minister launches project to tackle chronic pain
A new Prevention Centre project that aims to find ways of preventing chronic pain in primary care has been launched by the Health Minister, the Hon Greg Hunt MP. -
New research project to help tackle chronic pain
The Turnbull Government is boosting its commitment to preventive health by providing $10 million for new research projects that focus on preventing disease and keeping people out of hospital. -
Preventing the development of chronic pain
This project worked with Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to increase understanding around opportunities to improve the prevention and management of chronic pain in primary care.