Global health

Asylum seekers are not receiving acceptable standards of medical care. Should doctors boycott the system?

John-Paul Sanggaran MB BS, MHMed, BHSc · Grant M Ferguson BSc(Hons), MB BS · Bridget G Haire PhD, MBioethics

A high standard of pregnancy care should be provided for all women

Caroline M de Costa PhD, MPH, FRANZCOG

How Australia can help achieve universal health coverage in the rest of the world

Michael R Kidd AM, MD, FRACGP

Singapore's model of health financing is complex, responsive and may hold lessons for Australia

Paul F Gross PhD

Universal health coverage in poorer nations may not reduce inequities in access to and outcomes from health care

David B Hipgrave MB BS, PhD, FRACP · Krishna Hort MB BS, MCH, FAFPHM

Better facility-based outcomes for mothers and newborns are within reach

Myrto M Schaefer MD, MSc · Alexandra L Brown BA

Crisis provides urgency and focus for coordinated action to improve regional health and development

Suman S Majumdar MPH · Ben J Marais MD, PhD · Justin T Denholm MPH · Warwick J Britton PhD, FRACP, FRCPA,

Study highlights a need to examine BCG vaccination program delivery across Australia

Frank H Beard · Kristine K Macartney

Study highlights a need to examine BCG vaccination program delivery across Australia

Amanda Gwee · Ranmali Rodrigo · Dan Casalaz · Nicole Ritz · Nigel Curtis

Top-down and bottom-up approaches are both needed to improve diabetes outcomes worldwide

Alicia J Jenkins MB BS, MD, FRACP

What does it mean to be a leader in global health today?

Kylie Ngu MB BS, BMedSci

Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers in closed detention causes ongoing mental health issues

Gillian Triggs LLB, LLM, PhD

The organ transplant community are urged to pressure China into banning the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners

Jeremy R Chapman MD, FRACP, FRCP

What we do for asylum seekers while they are in detention has the potential to prevent future loss of life

Nicholas G Procter PhD, MBA, RN · Diego De Leo AO, DSc, PhD · Louise Newman AM, MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRANZCP

Half of asylum seekers needed ED care in 2011, suggesting primary health care in closed detention is lacking

Adrienne K Deans MB BS, FRACGP, FACEM · Clare J Boerma MB BS · James Fordyce MB BS, MPH, FACEM · Mark De Souza MB BS, FACEM · Didier J Palmer FRCP, FRCS, FACEM · Joshua S Davis MB BS, FRACP, PhD

Anthony Radford was the inaugural professor of primary care at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Before and after that appointment, he accumulated a total of 50 years of experience in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Radford first went to that country as a student in 1951; from 1963 to 1972, he was a public health officer there; and later, he consulted on PNG for the World Health ...

Robert B Black

Are global health leaders and funding bodies doing enough to ensure that the rhetoric surrounding health system strengthening becomes reality, or has the concept been relegated to that of a buzzword?

Mary C Boyle MB BCh, DTM

New president of the World Organization of Family Doctors, Australian professor Michael Kidd AM, recently spoke about leading the response to the health and wellbeing needs of communities around the world.

Michael R Kidd AM, MD, FRACGP

West Papuan refugees living in Australia are experiencing ongoing living difficulties and distress, after exposure to human rights violations and separation from their homeland.

Susan Rees PhD · Derrick M Silove MD · Kuowei Tay MPsych · Moses Kareth BA

Australian health policy can and should address, as a core aim, cardiovascular health in less economically advanced nations

Stephen R Leeder MD, PhD, FRACP

To the Editor: We read with interest the viewpoint offered by Mitchell and colleagues, highlighting the need for improved integration of global health training in postgraduate medical education in Australia.1 This subject has garnered interest in Australia and overseas with reference to ophthalmology. In the United Kingdom, the case for structured global health training has been advocated in ophthalmology postgraduate education, where financial and bureaucratic ...

Jan Kokavec · Lauren Hodgson · Justin C Sherwin

To the Editor: Mitchell and colleagues have done medical education a service by outlining all the potential benefits and harms associated with global health training.1 They are right to state that sustainability is key — however, all too often in the past, it has been sustainability that has been lacking. According to Yikona, writing in 2003: “Case by case analysis of medical schools in sub-Saharan ...

Kieran Walsh

In reply: We thank Walsh for highlighting that sustainability is a critical challenge in global health training (GHT) programs and that technology is creating new options for international engagement. He has also articulated a vision of qualified specialists taking a greater role in the delivery of clinical education in resource-poor settings. We share this aspiration. One of the end points of GHT is a lifelong commitment ...

Rob D Mitchell · Jennifer C Jamieson · Jake Parker · Fred B Hersch · Zoe Wainer · A Rob Moodie

A sensible approach to controlling tuberculosis in Australia would be universal screening of migrants from high-incidence countries, similar to the efficient and cost-effective program that is used in the United Kingdom

Justin T Denholm MPHTM, PhD, FRACP