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Overall, health fared poorly in this year’s budget.
Even minor reductions in COVID transmission rates due to early isolation would justify the additional costs associated with the policy.
The deaths of huge numbers of the elderly in our care homes due to COVID-19 made clear the need to integrate our health and social care services. Here’s what needs to be done.
Conversations and debates about vaccine mandates will continue well into next year as policy-makers balance individual freedom and public well-being.
Singapore will start charging people who choose not to be vaccinated for any COVID-related hospital care. While Australia’s hospitals are also under pressure, we shouldn’t follow suit.
Compared to ten similar countries, Australia does well on equity and health care outcomes. But it still has a way to go on access and how well the health system fits together.
To get to stage C of the plan out of COVID, 80% of adults over 16 need to be vaccinated. But that equates to just under 65% of all Australians – too low to safely open international borders.
If we open up the international borders before enough of the population is vaccinated, hospitals could become overwhelmed and deaths would be unacceptably high.
Sex is not gender but research continues to treat these as the same concept, with potentially damaging consequences for health studies, health policies and health programs.
Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.
With enough vaccine supplies coming online from October, the government has no excuse not to have all arrangements in place for an efficient vaccination program. Here’s what needs to change.
With more than 850 changes to Medicare on the cards, the system needs time to adjust. Hasty implementation may mean patients face higher gap fees.
A sustainable private health insurance system requires enough young, healthy people paying premiums and not making claims. But government policies haven’t achieved this. Here’s what to try instead.
While the pandemic has focused the world’s attention on how to prevent infectious disease, many of the lessons learned from COVID-19 prevention can also be applied to chronic disease prevention.
An extra A$17.7 billion for aged care seems like a lot, but it still falls short of the royal commission’s recommendations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the scarcity of resources in long-term care. But it has also revealed how staff are undervalued.
Independent assessments were meant to make access to the NDIS fairer. But disability groups disagree and want them stopped.
A cannabis decriminalization bill approved by the House is a sign from Congress that sentiment around the drug is evolving, but it misses a chance to regulate marijuana for the good of all Americans.
The food and beverage industry is increasingly involved in the policymaking process.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University