Tag Archives: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Business is booming for the health industry

September 30, 2009 – 1:24 pm

How much do we spend on health?
An ever-increasing fortune, according to this new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
You could spend hours wading through all the stats, but here are a few snippets:
• In the financial year 2007–08, Australia‘s health expenditure totalled $103.6 billion, or 9.1% of gross domestic product (GDP). A [...]

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Is your health care safe and up to scratch? How would you know?

September 30, 2009 – 11:50 am

How do we know if our general practice/hospital/dentist/aged care service is providing safe and quality care?  At the moment, it’s almost impossible to answer this question in any objective manner.
But at least we now have some idea of what sort of questions we should be asking, thanks to a report released this week by [...]

By Croakey | Posted in Hospitals, adverse events, consumer health information, mental health, primary health care, quality and safety of health care, surgery | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

What I recently told Minister Roxon’s office: Stephen Leeder

May 12, 2009 – 7:49 pm

Professor Stephen Leeder, director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, weighs in with some comments on Tim Gill’s recent post raising concerns about the Feds’ plans for nutrition and physical activity surveys:
DESPITE the enormity of the obesity epidemic, astonishingly Australia still lacks information about trends in weight, physical activity [...]

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