The Health Advocate - August 2020 - COVID-19 Edition

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Key policy issues Impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Amid the rush to telehealth Pandemic kills COAG Beyond COVID-19

COVID-19 The official magazine of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association

ISSUE 60 / August 2020 PRINT POST APPROVED PP :100009739


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Articles inside

Urgent policy and funding needs in the Alcohol and other Drug Sector in response to COVID-19

1min
pages 66-67

Health justice partnership in a time of pandemic

3min
pages 63-65

Rural Australia’s first COVID-19 respiratory clinic opens

4min
pages 60-62

General Practice funding needs reform after COVID-19 exposes weakness

4min
pages 57-59

Resilience and rapid response— boosting Australia’s health and medical research capabilities post COVID-19

3min
pages 54-56

Royal Hobart Hospital Robots

1min
page 52

The Hand Sanitiser Australia Project

3min
pages 50-51

Models of nursing and allied health student placements in times of COVID-19

3min
pages 47-49

Alarm over how the pandemic response is undermining public and preventive health research and teaching

4min
pages 44-46

Impact of COVID-19 on older adults’ mental health

4min
pages 39-41

Public pathology and the PathWest response to COVID-19

3min
pages 36-38

Amid the rush to telehealth, let’s ensure we address these cautions and questions

4min
pages 33-35

COVID-19 in Western Sydney

4min
pages 30-32

GP respiratory clinics in Canberra join COVID-19 fight

2min
pages 26-27

The 'hospital-in-the-home' revolution has been stalled by COVID-19, but it's still a good idea.

3min
pages 22-24

Pandemic kills COAG in pursuit of a ‘new normal’

4min
pages 19-21

COVID-19: Key policy issues in Australia’s bid to reopen

3min
pages 16-17

Realising the value of integrated care in Australia beyond

4min
pages 14-15

COVID-19 and its impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

4min
pages 11-13

AHHA in the news

5min
pages 8-10

Now is not the time to shy away from innovation— and health reform

4min
pages 6-7

An interview with new AHHA Board Chair, the Hon. Jillian Skinner

3min
pages 4-5
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