December – 2008

Monthly Archives: December 2008

How to resuscitate primary health care

December 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm

Professor Stephen Leeder, Director of the Australian Health Policy Institute, writes:
The recent Crikey article raising serious questions about the future of primary care is timely in view of the problems facing general practice in Australia.
We need a national approach to general practice that invests five times the current level in it: to achieve best [...]

By Croakey | Posted in Journal articles, general practice, primary health care | Tagged general practice, health reform, primary health care | Comments (0)

The debate continues: is binge drinking campaign a backward step?

December 1, 2008 – 9:45 am

Geoff Munro, National Policy Manager at the Australian Drug Foundation, responds to a previous post by Dr Alex Wodak:
“Alex Wodak rightly points out that media campaigns do not in themselves change much behavior directly, so we cannot expect the binge drinking campaign to have a big effect.
It is hardly fair though, to characterize the campaign [...]