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Tag Archives: primary healthcare
IAN WEBSTER. Specialists versus generalists: A commentary on John Menadue and Peter Brooks
John Menadue and Peter Brooks have mounted powerful critiques of private specialist medical practice in a series in Pearls and Irritations. The nub of their positions is the high fee structure in (private out-patient) specialist practice is out of kilter … Continue reading
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Tagged access to Medicare, general practitioners, Ian Webster, medical specialist fees, primary healthcare
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John Menadue. Health Policy Reform: Part 1 – Why reform is needed
Policy Series I will be posting three articles on health policy. This article outlines the priority areas where reform is necessary. Part 2 will explain why reform is so difficult but not impossible. Part 3 will be about processes and … Continue reading
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Tagged cost of blame-shifting in Health, Fairness Opportunity and Security, health funding, health programs, health workforce, John Menadue, Medicare, Pearls and Irritations policy series, primary healthcare, private health insurance
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Fran Baum & Paul Laris. Beware of the crocodiles, they will keep you out of the garden!
We interviewed 20 former Australian Federal and State and Territory health ministers about the extent to which they were able to focus on promoting health, health equity and social determinants of health during their tenure. Social determinants of health are … Continue reading
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Tagged acute healthcare, Fran-Baum, Paul-Laris, primary healthcare, public health, Social determinants of health
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