Next year in the Closing the Gap Report, we want to learn about what the government has been doing to show respect for Aboriginal people and their views and values, write Des Martin, CEO of the Aboriginal Health Council of WA and Gavin Mooney, a health economist
Primary health care
Are Medicare Locals entrenching institutional racism?
In the current discussions on primary health care for the future in this country, the Aboriginal Community Controlled sector and its voice are being ignored, writes Professor Gavin Mooney.
Rudd’s health plans look like a schoolboy’s Sunday night homework
Kevin Rudd’s plan for a structural overhaul of the health system still looks like it was knocked together at the last minute, says political editor of Australian Doctor Paul Smith.
Hospitals win votes — the devil is in the details
Of course the government is focusing on hospitals in its health care reform announcements — few voters are gripped by establishing Primary Health Care Organisations, says Professor Philip Davies. It’s what comes next that counts.
Are pharmacists our modern-day quacks?
Do pharmacists deserve to be taken seriously as health professionals when so many are little better than quacks? asks Loretta Marron.
Primary Health’s Dr Ed ruffles feathers
Primary Health Care’s tough approach to health care services has the firm’s staff and customers spitting chips, writes Andrew Crook
It’s time to think beyond hospitals
Now that the problems of public hospitals have been “fixed”, can we please start talking and thinking about some of the country’s other, equally pressing health problems? Melissa Sweet writes.
