Croakey Health Media operates across multiple platforms and spheres. While it is difficult to fully measure and understand the wide-ranging impacts of our work, we provide a range of measures below.
These include:
- Readership figures, via our website and Apple News. Full details are here.
- Social media analytics using Buffer and Twitter Analytics. The figures below are for total impressions across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn (they don’t include our Mastodon analytics).
- Regular impact reports, showing the diversity and influence of individuals and organisations engaging with our work. Contact info@croakey.org if you’d like to receive these reports.
See our comprehensive list of Twitter lists to follow for news on Indigenous health, climate and health, COVID, public health and more.
Total figures for the year to date (up to the end of October) for visitors to Croakey.org and our Apple News channel
185,910 Visitors
348,288 Page views
Total social media impressions for the year to date (up to the end of October)
5,268,273 Impressions
Impact reports
2023
Impact Report – September 2023
November 2023
This month, we are covering the health impacts of the war in Gaza and Israel, as well as the climate health crisis and the aftershocks of the referendum vote. The Croakey Conference News Service is covering the HEAL Network conference and its focus on ‘collective action for health, environment and climate’, and the National Medicines Symposium.
This month our articles have been republished and shared by the Australian Hospitals & Healthcare Association, Vets for Climate Action, Pearls & Irritations, and many other organisations and publishers.
Do not look away
Week ending 30 November: As we profile health sector expectations for the COP28 meeting that begins today, our bulletin this week has a strong focus on the environmental determinants of health.
We report on One Health perspectives, the impending launch of the National Health and Climate Strategy, and also bring more news from the HEAL Network’s recent conference – bookmark this link to track our ongoing coverage.
The change of government in Aotearoa/New Zealand is looking disastrous for health and equity; don’t miss two related stories, including calls for the global public health community to mobilise.
As health leaders urge a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, United Nations leader António Guterres warns that the people of Gaza are “in the midst of an epic humanitarian catastrophe”.
“We must not look away,” he says.
Meanwhile, the ICYMI column reports calls for a national process of truth telling in order to pursue implementation of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
We also bring a strong focus on the health and wellbeing of children and young people, from efforts to curb vaping, to an initiative aiming to increase the accountability of governments and policymakers: the Future Healthy Countdown 2030. Decades of an economy focused on growth at all costs, rather than sustainable and equitable growth, has threatened the health and wellbeing of children and young people and future generations, according to health experts involved.
Charles Maskell-Knight digs into an analysis of Australian health expenditure on COVID-19. Contributors also make suggestions for the forthcoming national mental health lived experience consumer peak body and for shifting the narrative on female sports participation.
Our condolences to family, friends and colleagues of Professor Dennis Pashen; we share in your shock and sorrow at his sudden passing.
This week, we sent out our impact reports for September and October. If you would like to receive these regular updates, please let us know.
For every child, every right
Week ending 23 November: World Children’s Day, which was observed on Monday, 20 November, is billed as a day for celebrating the rights of children.
“From climate change, education and mental health, to ending racism and discrimination, children and young people are raising their voices on the issues that matter to their generation and calling for adults to create a better future,” says a related United Nations resource.
“This World Children’s Day, it’s more important than ever that the world listens to their ideas and demands.”
Meanwhile, we think of the 31 critically ill babies evacuated from northern Gaza while “clinging to life” and without their family members, as well as the thousands of children who have been killed in recent weeks.
Health and medical organisations are being urged to raise their voices in support of calls for an enduring ceasefire, according to a report by Alison Barrett.
This week, we also think of the babies and children who are at increased risk from climate catastrophe and yet are neglected in climate responses.
We preview health discussions at the forthcoming global Conference of the Parties (COP28) negotiations on climate change, kicking off in Dubai from 30 November. Join us in sharing related news at #HealthyCOP28.
The ICYMI column also brings news on children’s rights, from the #RaiseTheAge campaign to young peoples’ calls for action on toxic marketing.
The Croakey Conference News Service has been busy. Don’t miss our latest reports from #HEAL2023, shining a spotlight on First Nations’ justice, knowledges and leadership in co-design, with more stories to come.
We also bring the final report from the National Medicines Symposium.
This week’s bulletin also includes stories on mental healthcare reform, misinformation, and COVID.
Charles Maskell-Knight provides a detailed overview of Australia’s health status, and don’t miss The Health Wrap, which digs into research misconduct, amongst other topics.
Croakey readers have until 15 December to make a submission to Australia’s COVID-19 Response Inquiry. Please feel free to send us your submissions as well.
On 23 November, Editor-in-Chief Dr Melissa Sweet live-tweeted the Oceania launch of The Lancet Countdown report.
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We continue our coverage of #HEAL2023.
Broken systems
Week ending 16 November: As the year’s end draws closer, it is increasingly clear that our governance systems – globally, nationally and locally – are broken, and incapable of protecting the health and safety of people.
Whether we look to the horrific assaults on children, civilians and health facilities in Gaza or to the fossil fuel industry’s threats to the health and safety of millions of people around the world and indeed the future of humanity, it is clear that we cannot continue as we are.
We hear this week from a range of doctors and other health professionals advocating for peace and justice.
As we digest the grim findings from the latest Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, it is uplifting to hear from some of those working for transformative change for the health and wellbeing of Country and communities.
Make sure to follow #HEAL2023 for news from the HEAL Network conference, with a focus on collective action for health, environment and climate. Also bookmark this link for Croakey Conference News Service coverage of the discussions, with more stories to come.
Positive steps are being taken to reduce the carbon footprint of the Australian health system, but many challenges and questions remain, according to Alison Barrett’s final report from the recent National Medicines Symposium. On related matters, read about the benefits of integrating pharmacists into Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations.
The ICYMI column encourages Croakey readers to make a submission to the United Nations development of a Code of Conduct for information integrity on digital platforms. The deadline is 1 December.
The bulletin this week also explores women’s health, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, ADHD, and private health insurance policy. It brings some historical context to contemporary Medicare reforms.
We join with many others in congratulating Adjunct Professor Janine Mohamed, CEO of the Lowitja Institute, who was announced this week as 2024 Australian of the Year for Victoria in recognition of her longstanding work in dismantling racism and promoting cultural safety.
The the Greek affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War cross-published our article: As Gaza hospitals become “scenes of death, devastation, and despair”, global community urged to act for peace.
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A Croakey team live-tweeted and reported from the HEAL Network’s annual conference, #HEAL2023.
End this tragedy
Week ending 9 November: “We are running out of words.”
This was a tweet from World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 3 November, referring to the “indescribable” situation on the ground in Gaza.
Five days later, he tweeted: “It has been a month of intense bombardment in Gaza. 10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children. How long will this human catastrophe last?
“We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate release of the hostages. History will judge us all by what we do to end this tragedy.”
More than 3,000 health professionals from Australia and other countries are echoing the call by many agencies and countries for ceasefire, urging “respect of and accountability to international humanitarian law”.
The need for strong systems, accountability and transparency is explored in other stories in this week’s bulletin, including a landmark decision by medical regulators to ban an ACT doctor for discriminatory and offensive behaviour towards Indigenous ophthalmologist Dr Kris Rallah-Baker.
As Marie McInerney reports, it’s the result of reforms that require tribunals and other health regulatory decision makers to consider racist and culturally unsafe practices when determining professional misconduct.
The Alliance for Gambling Reform is urging greater accountability and transparency to allow us to know more easily how much our superannuation giants are betting on gambling operators for their profits.
And we hope Croakey readers will have many insights to deliver to the National COVID-19 Inquiry, which is now open to submissions (but no more than three pages!), as we report ongoing concerns about gaps in long COVID care.
Across a number of articles, we see the power of advocacy in action, with the ACT raising the age of criminal responsibility and public drunkenness finally decriminalised in Victoria after powerful campaigning by Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day’s family. And we look back at the pioneering community health agenda of the Whitlam Government.
Yet roads to change are long and hard, as leading Yes23 campaigners know too well. They met this week at their first public gatherings with supporters in the wake of the devastating Voice referendum, sharing grief, anger and hope, as well as ongoing commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Stay tuned for Alison Barrett’s report from the National Medicines Symposium for the Croakey Conference News Service, and check out the tweets at #NMS23.
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2022 Impact
We record our social media analytics using Buffer and Twitter Analytics.
For 2022 we had a total of 9,606,305 impressions across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Impact Report – September 2022
