Tag Archives: rural health

Will more doctors mean better health?

September 28, 2009 – 12:03 pm

Some people have called it a tsunami; others argue that “a rising tide” is a more accurate description. Whatever methaphor you prefer, one thing is clear. Australia is going to be awash with medical graduates in the very near future.
According to some estimates, the number of domestic medical graduates will rise from 1,348 in 2005 to an [...]

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What does the dust storm mean for our health? An inside view

September 23, 2009 – 9:46 am

Ben Harris-Roxas is an expert in health impact assessment. After waking to this view this morning in Sydney, he’s been investigating the impact of dust storms on health.
He writes:
“Sydneysiders awoke to a red glow this morning and opened their curtains to find that the city had been shrouded in a dust storm, blown in [...]

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Updating Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents

May 21, 2009 – 3:53 pm

There are new entries to the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents. CRUD records the details of evaluations, plans, reviews and other such documents that should be released (whether by governments or other commissioning bodies), in the interests of promoting better informed policy, practice and debate.

The new entries are:

• Evaluation of the Rural Clinical Schools [...]

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For those who care about rural and remote health

May 12, 2009 – 9:00 pm

These are the bits from the budget I’ve highlighted – at a first quick glance – that are particularly relevant for those with an interest in rural and remote health:
Infrastructure
Funding for regional cancer centres
$27 million for an integrated district health service in Narrabri, bringing together hospital, primary and community health services
$8.6 million for an expansion [...]

By Croakey | Posted in Federal Budget 2009-2010, Indigenous health, rural and remote health | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Private health insurance incentives widening the health gap

February 3, 2009 – 10:01 am

Catherine Beadnell, editor of the Australian Nursing Journal, adds to the ongoing Croakey debate about the unfairness built into the Australian health system:
“In response to Mark Ragg’s column I think the system is unfair and the Howard Government’s efforts to reduce the Medicare burden on Treasury by propping up private health insurance has led to [...]

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