In case you missed them, following is a thread of articles from this week's bulletin...
This week's quotable comes from the ICYMI column compiled by @MelissaSweetDr
"You know there is a rural medical crisis when you ring another rural hospital to transfer a patient, and they refuse the patient but offer you a job" – a rural GP on Twitter
"Despite these concerns & interest in alternative platforms such as Mastodon, many participants were resolved to stay with Twitter as long as possible, to ensure public health voices remain active on the platform" – @MelissaSweetDr
"The media plays a major role in shaping public views about policy issues & this campaign has continued the mainstream media’s concentration on hospitals & doctors when reporting on health" – @JenniferDoggett
"The number of people who died due to #COVID19 was over three times higher among those living in the most disadvantaged areas when compared to those living in the least disadvantaged areas" – @ALeighMP
"This is a complex area, where the right balance is needed, to encourage adult alcohol substitution with zero-alcohol beverages, whilst protecting young people from as much alcohol marketing as possible" – @nathan_harrison
"With many disruptions to social connections over the past few years, loneliness has gained recognition as a big problem in our current society" – @DrewMeehan2
"Lifting people out of poverty & improving health through policies that generate net savings for society while reducing costs to governments should be prioritised" – Spencer Fowler Steen
"Heal Our Way is focusing on changing up the language we use to better support people and providing the tools for people to be able to listen & create a safe space for people to share their worries" – Shannay Holmes
"These enormous costs are driven in part by a massive missed opportunity. As the old saying goes, it is better to build a fence at the top of the cliff than park an ambulance at the bottom" – @dan_lubman@rethinkadd
"Government must realise that traditional Island wisdom, knowledge & understanding is the most valuable tool for climate change adaptation" – Sereako Stephen (Jr), Melissa Haswell, Francis Nona & David Shearman
"Locking young people up during their crucial years of development has long-term impacts including poor emotional development, education outcomes & worse mental health in adulthood"– @SummerMayFinlay@EePinChang1@JemmaCollova@pat_dudgeon
"It is a tragic & escalating story still unfolding along major river systems across eastern Australia that underscores the urgency & scale of issues to be raised at this week’s #HEAL2022 conference" – @mariemcinerney
The latest Health Wrap by @LRussellWolpe: sounding the alarm on unsafe drinking water, latest on #COVID19, community pharmacy trial, health literacy – and a puzzle
"The health system is bursting at the seams in multiple places simultaneously. It’s like we had an old pair of shorts, COVID came along & is causing holes in multiple places where things were already worn" – @AlexMartiniuk, first in @ConversationEDU
"Use inclusive language. Better yet, don’t use excluding language. In what you say at home, at work, in the community… include. Don’t tack us on as an afterthought" – @sandyosullivan
On election day eve - a thread on Croakey's coverage of the Victorian election.
The role of the media, the rise in extremism and why we need to broaden the focus from hospitals and doctors to primary health care, prevention and social determinants is discussed in this wrap piece by @JenniferDoggettcroakey.org/as-victorians-…#VicVotes2022
Also calling for a shift towards community-based care and prevention is @JudkinsSimon who warns that we are heading for a US-style system unless we change our thinking on priorities for health spending. croakey.org/as-the-victori…
Jaithri Ananthapavan from @Deakin outlining the opportunities for early-mid career researchers in @HEALenviron#HEAL2022
Karina Martin talks re @HEALenviron's research translation survey: findings be used to promote more effective research translation, support real word outcomes that so emphasised at #HEAL2022
#HEAL2022 has resumed now, with participants splitting into thematic sessions: I (@mariemcinerney) will be in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander knowledges and food/soil/water security: @AlisonSBarrett will be at clean energy and bushfires sessions
Assoc Prof Linda Payi Ford opens with the importance of Indigenous voices being heard in climate action and #HEAL2022 discussions
Hearing from Prof Elaine Lawurrpa Maypilama & Assoc Prof Petra Buergelt re this project #HEAL2022
First up, Prof Eugenie Kayak, anaesthetist from Austin and Alfred Health and @DocsEnvAus's National Sustainable Healthcare Special Interest Group #HEAL2022, acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, custodianship of Country
We are living well beyond our means, need 1.7 planets to deal with all our resource consumption and waste. So we really have a climate emergency, says Prof Kayak.
Day 2 #HEAL2022 is set to begin, with @DrVMatthews chairing the plenary session, featuring Norway's @KrAunan, WHO's @DiarmidCL, Professor Eugenie Kayak from @DocsEnvAus, @EPA_Victoria Chief Enviromental Scientist Prof Mark Taylor (Design: umbaynggirr & Yaegl woman Talah Laurie)
. @AlisonSBarrett and I (@mariemcinerney) will be aiming to pop in and out of most/all regional sessions at #HEAL2022 - I'm starting at the NT session, now being opened by @MenziesResearch Director Prof. Alan Cass from Larrakia Nation land
Cass talks about forming a @HEALenviron Community of Practice in the NT, to do research that directly addresses key priorities in climate change, to be "very much part of the solution". Today will look at shared priorities and how to address....#HEAL2022