The Health Advocate - August 2020 - COVID-19 Edition

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DR AMY NGUYEN Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University

PROFESSOR JOHN CARTMILL Associate Dean Clinical, Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University

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

DR SARAH WHITE Senior Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University

One hundred years ago the Russian literary theorist Victor Shklovsky pointed out that ‘strangeness’ could make a routine experience fresh again. In this way, telehealth, which includes telemedicine, is strange for many of us, and that ‘structural challenge’ invites and facilitates reflection on what we might otherwise take for granted in medical consultations: equity, effectiveness, health literacy, safety, quality, risk, privacy, even the fundamental nature and purpose of communication in consultations. It is worth addressing some of the strengths and weaknesses of telehealth — particularly with regard to an initial consultation—while its use is novel (note, the authors acknowledge that telemedicine is not new and that there are many experts in the field). >

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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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