Stephen R Leeder
@stephenleeder
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I'm an Emeritus Professor in the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics at the @Sydney_Uni. I edit the Int J Epidemiology.
Sydney
Joined November 2010
The Australian Public Service has been a superb, quiet and effective contributor to managing our several crises in 2020. Little publicity. This report is worth reading.
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Finished today my years at Westmead Hospital and Western Sydney Local Health District. Huge privilege and I consider myself most fortunate to have had and been able to contribute. Great colleagues and an astonishing community! My association with Westmead began in 1972.
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Dr Norman Swan interviews Professor Mikhail Prokopenko on ABC National Radio
abc.net.au
There's growing debate about how we get out of this pandemic. Where is the off ramp and what's at the end of the slip road?
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Healthcare costs increasingly shifting to patients, study shows
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An optimistic inventory of innovative approaches to climate that offer hope.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
As the Coalition stalls on emissions reduction, moneyed climate activists are turning to direct investment, led by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.
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Now that my cataracts have been removed I can see clearly everyone's wrinkles -.including mine! Great poem by Coleridge! What a gift is good vision!
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As we wrote in 2005: Beyond reproduction: women's health in today's developing world.
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Abstract. Accepted 18 May 2005Background The concept of women's health is tethered strongly to reproductive health. At present, international attention and
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"A recent biography of the postwar Labour Prime Minister presents a figure fully as admirable—and, in some significant ways, more so—as Churchill."
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A recent biography of the postwar Labour Prime Minister presents a figure fully as admirable—and, in some significant ways, more so—as Churchill.
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A little bit of sugar may (or may not) make the weight go down.
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Serious and continuing illness requires two strategies as in the Productivity Commission Report – integrated care and prevention. Care comes first.
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Consider the impact of the isolation room on the mind of the occupant!
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Fizz and anti ageing acupuncture on the new agenda for CDC.
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Great article on Deaths of Despair (probably NOT) in America.
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Tom Frieden, of NYC and CDC, used evidence against Zika, salt, TB, fats and cigs but not just RCTs!
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A new report comparing health systems in 11 countries gives Australia a pat on the back but not for equity.
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An incurable disease via @TheEconomist. Why a simplistic approach to productivity in medicine is a health hazard.
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Research fraud is uncommon drama. Sculpting is far more common and deadly.
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