The budget sets the foundation for a new approach to community-based mental health care, eases cost-of-living pressures and aims to keep people out of hospital. Will they work? And what’s missing?
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The federal government has announced almost $50 million in funding for gynaecological health care. But there’s more to do to help women with chronic pain.
Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to health care?
Expanding the places people can get a flu vaccine could help.
The mass-produced wholegrain bread you buy from the supermarket isn’t harmful to your health, even though it’s an ‘ultra-processed’ food. Your overall diet matters more.
The implications of restrictive laws or near-total bans go well beyond abortions, reducing overall access to prenatal care, birthing services, routine reproductive health care and more.
Sugary drinks cause weight gain and increase the risk of a range of diseases. But a tax can reduce sales and make us healthier.
We need to look at the roots of gendered violence, including the experiences and behaviours of perpetrators.
This is a structural problem, not something one budget can fix.
Overworking junior doctors has been normalised for decades. And we all suffer.
Greater payroll taxes for GP clinics means lower profits. Clinics will seek to make up the shortfall in revenue by other means – and this could include reducing the number of patients they bulk bill.
We now have a sensible pathway to improve access to health care, using the skills of nurses, pharmacists and GPs appropriately.
Under the new law, the legal age for cigarette sales will increase by a year each year from 2027. This means people born from 2009 will never be able to legally buy cigarettes in the UK.
Here’s how we design a fairer pathology system, fit for the 21st century, with no out-of-pocket costs or the public.
Allowing pharmacists to dispense nicotine vapes without a prescription would ensure people who are using them to quit smoking could access them legally, while preventing inappropriate sales to youth.
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
Australia’s aged care system is undergoing significant change, but is still governed by an act more than 25 years old. Can the government meet its mid-year deadline for the next round of reforms?
The health care world has changed a lot in 40 years, but Medicare hasn’t. Here are three areas for radical forms to the system that will achieve its aims of universal health care for all Australians.
National Cabinet is meeting today to discuss hospital funding, and the interconnected issues of NDIS reform and GST allocation. But how are hospitals actually funded? And what’s GST got to do with it?
The first Australian Capital Territory voluntary assisted dying bill in more than 25 years was tabled in parliament yesterday. So what will MPs vote on? And how is it different to state legislation?
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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 University, 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, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Senior Policy Adviser, National Rural Health Alliance; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Health economist, University of Sydney
