Classing e-cigarettes as quit smoking aids could help rebrand the tobacco industry as a legitimate player in health policy. Here’s why we should be concerned.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Health policy
Affichage de 161 à 180 de 370 articles
Using intellectual property laws to try to shut down Mark Rogers’ ‘Save Medicare’ website shows how these laws serve to restrict free speech and advance government privatisation agendas.
A collaboration of Australia’s leading scientists, clinicians and health organisations announce ten priority policy actions needed for Australia to reach its health targets by the year 2025.
Obesity imposes enormous costs on the community, through higher taxes to fund extra government spending on health and from foregone tax revenue because obese people are more likely to be unemployed.
Alternatives to Obamacare look to address rising premiums and less consumer choice. What options does the US have and how could they work?
For the first time in 15 years, as premiums and complaints rise, the proportion of the population with private health insurance is declining.
The decision to tax sugary drinks in South Africa faces furious industry opposition, but global experience shows industry cannot be trusted to put public health before profits.
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it?
As Obamacare premium prices rise, many are asking why the U.S. doesn’t have universal health care in the first place. The reasons may surprise you.
A disease that we have known about for more than 100 years still defies proper description and a consensus on how to tackle it.
Nursing home providers looking to cut costs are bypassing registered nurses and employing less-skilled personal care attendants (PCAs) who aren’t trained for the job.
People ending up in hospital for diabetes, tooth decay, or other conditions that should be treatable or manageable out of hospital is a warning sign of system failure.
The government must do more to deliver a 21st-century health system – not just to improve its standing with voters but to meet the health needs of all Australians.
The ageing population is only a relatively small contributor to the growth in hospital admissions.
Health policy was an important factor in the election outcome, but one of the most important issues in the health sector – the impact of out-of-pocket costs – was mostly ignored.
The Turnbull government must reconcile the political sensitivity of Medicare and the need for fiscal discipline.
Scare campaigns only work if there is some anxiety to build on. Labor’s Medicare campaign plugged into a long history of Coalition ambivalence – or open hostility – towards Medicare.
Before Australians go to vote on Saturday, The Conversation’s editors have assembled a guide to 11 key policy areas that could swing the vote.
Labor’s shadow health minister Catherine King, said that the government has “cut bulk-billing payments for pathology and diagnostic imaging to make patients pay more”. Is that right?
When a system is as complex as that of Medicare’s, it is going to be extremely expensive to rebuild and it is not possible to simply “retrofit” an off-the-shelf product from another company.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
-
Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
-
Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Monash University
-
Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
-
Jim Gillespie est un·e ami·e de La Conversation
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
-
Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
-
Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
-
Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
-
Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
-
Senior Policy Adviser, National Rural Health Alliance; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
-
Professor, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate, Grattan Institute
-
Health economist, University of Sydney
