This video focuses on the Cochrane Review ‘Xylitol-containing products for preventing dental caries in children and adults’, and explains what was found and how it might impact on the advice a dentist would give their patients.
More than 160 people attended this year’s 45 and Up Study Collaborators’ Meeting, held Tuesday 6 September 2016. The theme was Data, evidence and decision making: innovation for a better future. View the highlights from the meeting.
Professor Kazem Rahimi, Deputy Director of The George Institute UK, discusses a UK study that investigated whether influenza vaccinations reduce hospitalisations for patients with heart failure.
Chris Galano spent three months at the Sax Institute after being awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in Strengthening Health Systems. This program aims to develop a community of young global leaders and create lasting impacts on health systems throughout the Commonwealth. In this video he reflects on his time at … Continue reading
Alex Kilian spent three months at the Sax Institute after being awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in Strengthening Health Systems. This program aims to develop a community of young global leaders and create lasting impacts on health systems throughout the Commonwealth. In this video she reflects on her time at … Continue reading
This video from the World Health Organization explores research that partners communities and health services together, to develop and implement ways to reduce the transmission of dengue and Chagas disease in Mexico.
This short video from the New England Journal of Medicine presents new research findings that look at how efficacious the vaccine for Herpes zoster is in people older than 70. Watch the video >>
This podcast from Cochrane summarises a systematic review of the use of music therapy with cancer patients, which found they may have beneficial effects on anxiety, pain, fatigue and quality of life in people with cancer. Can music interventions benefit cancer patients?
This episode of ABC’s Q&A featured Sir Michael Marmot, President of the World Medical Association, as well as Warren Mundine, Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council, Christine Bennett Dean of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, and Deborah Cobb-Clark, Professor of Economics at The University of Sydney. Topics ranged from … Continue reading
In this webinar, hosted by the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Professor Pennie Foster-Fishman, a systems change expert and co-creator of the ABLe Change Framework, presented a practical webinar on how to help communities achieve transformational systems change to address significant social issues. http://record.redbackconferencing.com.au/Recordings/Webinar/SAX_INSTITUTE_30_JUNE_2016_1600.mp4
