Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Societal perspective on access to publicly subsidised medicines: A cross sectional survey of 3080 adults in Australia
Published 2017-01-01Background Around the world government agencies responsible for the selection and reimbursement of prescribed medicines and other health technologies are considering how best to bring community preferences into their ...Open AccessArticle -
Exploring the health and wellbeing of lesbian, bisexual, queer and same sex attracted women living in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions
Published 2017-02-23The Labrys Project is a partnership initiative between ACON and Women’s Health – Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) carried out between 2014 and 2015. While lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women’s health ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Communicating about risk: strategies for situations where public concern is high but the risk is low.
Published 2017-02-01In this article, we summarise research that identifies best practice for communicating about hazards where the risk is low but public concern is high. We apply Peter Sandman’s ‘risk = hazard + outrage’ formulation to these ...Open AccessArticle -
How to cut through when talking to anti-vaxxers and anti-fluoriders
Published 2017-02-15Dismissing people’s worries as baseless, whether that’s about the safety of mobile phones or fluoridated drinking water, is one of the least effective ways of communicating public health risks. Yet it is common for people ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Patient Involvement Can Affect Clinicians’ Perspectives and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control: A “Post-Qualitative” Study Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography
Published 2017-01-01This study, set in a mixed, adult surgical ward of a metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, used a novel application of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to engage patients and clinicians in an exploration ...Open AccessArticle