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Some reading you mustn’t miss

May 19, 2009 – 9:46 am

While the front pages and buckets of airtime are being devoured by the question of whether the wealthy should have to pay more for their private health insurance, there are other, far more important things that you could be reading about.
The 18 May edition of the Medical Journal of Australia is devoted to Indigenous health,  [...]

By Croakey | Posted in Food, Health inequalities, Hospitals, Indigenous health, Journal articles, Media-related issues, childbirth and maternity services, chronic diseases, dental care, prevention, private health insurance, public health, rural and remote health | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

It’s time to tackle inequalities in health: Bob Wells

January 30, 2009 – 1:54 pm

Robert Wells, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, writes:
Mark Ragg’s analysis of the Australian health system is an elegantly simple document with a profound message. In all our argy-bargy about ‘blame games’, funding systems, ‘improved service delivery’ and ‘more appropriate models of care’, perhaps we have lost sight of a fundamental fact: the health system [...]

By Croakey | Posted in Health inequalities, Indigenous health, health reform, primary health care, private health insurance | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)