Better checks can balance outcomes
We can check that all children have a better start.
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Putting a price on a smile
Putting a price on a smile
Until around the 1980s, professionals like lawyers, doctors and dentists didn’t advertise their services. Advertising was considered brash and vulgar and was against the rules of many professions.
Balancing relative states of health tricky act
Balancing relative states of health tricky act
People who make health policy, fund or provide health services often need to measure the impact of those services on people’s health, and to know how much better one state of health is compared...
Volunteers doing the heavy lifting
Volunteers doing the heavy lifting
Why do people who need healthcare the most have to rely on charity to get it? asks Pauline Norris.
The risk of accentuating the positive
The risk of accentuating the positive
Coverage of cures can underplay the risks, as Covid stories have demonstrated once again, writes Pauline Norris.
Co-ordinating care
Co-ordinating care
In the world of Downton Abbey, the healthcare system was quite straightforward. In the 21st century, it's much more complex.
Gaps in the system
Gaps in the system
There are some who can't afford to smile, writes Pauline Norris.
Alliances key to integrating healthcare
Alliances key to integrating healthcare
Although we now have DHBs that are responsible for both primary and secondary care, as anyone who has been to hospital knows, the transition in and out of hospital doesn’t always go smoothly, writes Pauline Norris.
Freeing the pharmacist
Freeing the pharmacist
There are often arguments about who does what in healthcare, such as whether midwives or doctors should attend normal births, writes Pauline Norris.
The common touch
The common touch
Lay health workers play an important role in many countries around the world, writes Pauline Norris.
Racism leads to poor health
Racism leads to poor health
It is really easy to see how being treated badly by a health professional could make you more suspicious and less trusting of the health system, writes Pauline Norris.
Hand sanitisers? No, we're the great unwashed
Hand sanitisers? No, we're the great unwashed
Do you use the hand sanitiser when you visit a hospital or rest-home? What would make you more likely to do so? Would a voice-prompt work, asks Pauline Norris.
When it is chronic
When it is chronic
How is the health system coping with increasing chronic illness, asks Pauline Norris. And how could it better meet the needs of people with multitude conditions?
Tackling diabetes: people's individual needs important
Tackling diabetes: people's individual needs important
How can the health system best help people with diabetes? And does blaming people and their lifestyles help?