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Federal Election 2019: A primer on healthcare policy
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Federal Election 2019: A primer on healthcare policy

Labor Healthcare is a key pillar of the Australian Labour Party’s (ALP) election campaign. In particular, there is a focus on the quality of public hospitals, cancer services and preventive health measures. Labor’s healthcare policy pivots around the fundamental election promise of delivery of the Better Hospitals Fund[
May 7, 2019 5 min read
A healthy obsession: Why the United Nations must act on healthcare ... now
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A healthy obsession: Why the United Nations must act on healthcare ... now

When Larry Summers and 266 other economists lobbied the UN for change, it wasn’t filled with the stereotypical phrases you would hear from a hard-headed economist. Summers and his colleagues talked about one topic: health. Health is an oft-neglected subject in discussions of economic growth in developing countries; access
Sep 29, 2015 4 min read
Monetising organ donations
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Monetising organ donations

Every day three Australians die or suffer needlessly waiting for a transplant because we have poor organ donation rates. However, organ shortages are a universal problem. It has been estimated more than a million people are awaiting kidney transplants in the world. In the US, over 100,000 patients are
Jun 11, 2014 4 min read
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