Category
Prevention
4 articles
Childhood Obesity in Australia: Why Individual Responsibility Framing Has Failed and What Policy Must Change
One in four Australian children is overweight or obese. A policy analysis of why 'eat less, move more' campaigns fail, and what evidence-based interventions — sugar taxes, advertising bans, food labelling reform, and school food environments — can actually work.
Type 2 Diabetes in Australia: Prevalence, Cost and Policy
Type 2 diabetes Australia statistics: 1.2 million diagnosed, $4.4 billion in annual health expenditure, and deep equity gaps demanding urgent policy reform.
Metabolic Syndrome in Australia: The Policy Gap Between Evidence and Action
Australia's metabolic syndrome burden is large, growing, and poorly addressed by current Medicare and public health policy. An evidence-based analysis of the gap between what the research shows and what the health system delivers.
Chronic Disease Prevention Funding in Australia: The Return on Investment Case
Australia spends less than 2% of its health budget on prevention despite chronic disease representing over 70% of the disease burden. This analysis examines the economic evidence for prevention investment, what the OECD comparison shows, and the policy reforms that would shift Australia's health system upstream.