Posts tagged healthcare
The Australian Government response to the Disability Royal Commission: Implementing strategies for improvement for people with disability within Australia’s health care system
The Australian Government response to the Disability Royal Commission: Implementing strategies for improvement for people with disability within Australia’s health care system

Rae West details the Disability Royal Commission’s findings and recommendations on improving healthcare for people with disability, and the Australian Government’s response - as well as the disability community’s frustration at how few recommendations were accepted in full.

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Policy and governancePower to PersuadeDisability Royal Commission, Disability, healthcare
Peer-led services: reducing barriers to healthcare for LGBTIQA+ people
Peer-led services: reducing barriers to healthcare for LGBTIQA+ people

LGBTIQA+ people are more likely to experience marginalisation, stigma, social exclusion, abuse, and violence than the wider community. Philippa Moss, CEO of ACT-based LGBTIQA+ peer-led health service Meridian, and Alison Barclay, researcher and social impact consultant, explain how peer-led services are helping to address this gap, and what more needs to be done.

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Advocacy, Creating using evidence, Gender, Issues, Policy and governance, Service DeliveryPower to Persuadesocial justice, healthcare, public health, mental health, social determinants of health, Disadvantage, discrimination, evidence-based policy, data and evidence for advocacy
The sun is setting on archaic abortion laws in the West
The sun is setting on archaic abortion laws in the West

In today’s analysis, Megan Elias discusses the impact of recent reforms to abortion law in Western Australia. Megan is a women’s and sexual health professional based in Boorloo, working across government and the not-for-profit sector. Megan is WA representative and Secretary for the Australian Women’s Health Network (@AusWomensHealth).

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Womens Policy Action Tank, Service DeliveryWomen's Policy Action Tankhealthcare, women, public policy, Abortion
The disability educator and the healthcare worker: case studies in older women and the toxic workplace
The disability educator and the healthcare worker: case studies in older women and the toxic workplace

Today’s blog post from Myfan Jordan (@myfan_jordan) of Grassroots Research Studio follows last week’s article describing workplace experiences for women over 40 during the pandemic: Pandemic or endemic: older women and the toxic workplace. Today, we hear the experiences of a disability educator and a healthcare worker during the pandemic. In their own words, they tell us of the psychological health and safety risks they experienced working at the frontline.

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Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to Persuadegender, Disability, education, healthcare, COVID-19