http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2009/05/06/the-federal-budget-and-health-a-croakey-survey/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:02:25 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2009/05/06/the-federal-budget-and-health-a-croakey-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Gary Goland Wed, 06 May 2009 13:23:52 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/?p=353#comment-158 I would support the view offered by Fran Baum, that there needs to be wider consideration of Health than simply servicing illness. It needs to be about sustaining wellbeing in our communities, about containing risks that are patently obvious to many in the community. I dont have the same faith Fran has in the ability of Local Government to service these needs. Their culture is not one of service to the community. We need to understand what risks are in our living and working environments. We need to allocate resources to collecting evidence, and then to connecting it to vulnerability in our community. I think we can extract more use and value from the internet, definitely using GIS systems to relate the connectivity. We all need to work together a lot better before our community will get better. I would support the view offered by Fran Baum, that there needs to be wider consideration of Health than simply servicing illness. It needs to be about sustaining wellbeing in our communities, about containing risks that are patently obvious to many in the community. I dont have the same faith Fran has in the ability of Local Government to service these needs. Their culture is not one of service to the community. We need to understand what risks are in our living and working environments. We need to allocate resources to collecting evidence, and then to connecting it to vulnerability in our community. I think we can extract more use and value from the internet, definitely using GIS systems to relate the connectivity. We all need to work together a lot better before our community will get better.

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