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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites in August 2007. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
National News
State News
International News
Other News & Reports
National News
Nine out of ten teens sidestep exercise - 31 August, 2007
Almost 90 per cent of teenagers do not do the recommended amount of daily exercise and very few regularly eat fruit and vegetables...More
Program for terminally ill expanded - 30 August, 2007
A pilot program allowing terminally ill people to die in their own communities will be expanded to cover 36 regions under a $15 million funding package announced yesterday...More
Payout rise for doctors - 29 August, 2007
Payouts of more than $500,000 for doctors' mistakes such as botched surgeries have doubled...More
Health decisions must benefit sick people, not politicians - 25 August, 2007
As a membership-driven organisation, the Consumer's Health Forum of Australia (CHF) prides itself on listening and responding to the needs of consumers. But what happens when consumers do not agree, or when the needs of some consumers appear to conflict with the needs of others?..More
Premiers change tune on takeover - 24 August, 2007
State Premiers had moved from condemning the very concept of a federal take-over of hospitals to praising the idea, but federal Labor says its plan is completely different from the Coalition proposals that first generated the Premiers complaints...More
Rudd to take control of hospital - 23 August, 2007
Kevin Rudd will offer States $2 billion to fix their hospitals or he will go to the people for support to take over the health system...More
Funds will cut waiting - 22 August, 2007
Australia's medical community said yesterday's unexpected injection of federal money into health infrastructure should help cut waiting lists and improve treatments...More
GPs in mental health loop - 14 August, 2007
Taxpayers will fork out $3.2million to get doctors to consult more widely about patients mental health...More
Investment in health freezes over - 14 August, 2007
Investment in health information systems has stalled at $2 billion a year despite an increase in spending on medical care and claims that new technology could save thousands of lives...More
Unfit and costing nation $1.5bn - 14 August, 2007
Too lazy, too busy - whatever the excuse, 54 per cent of Australian adults don't do enough exercise and their inactivity is costing the health system $1.5billion a year...More
Diet changes bring diabetes - 13 August, 2007
Australia's diabetes epidemic is even worse among some ethnic groups, experts warn, in some cases with one in five adults affected by the disease...More
GP surgeries could be mobilised for students - 11 August, 2007
Medical students could be taught in GP surgeries in far greater numbers than currently occurs under a plan before the federal Government to expand community-based medical training...More
Honesty is best medicine - 6 August, 2007
As the recent first national report into sentinel - or serious - events in public hospitals demonstrated, mistakes do happen in health care and we are starting to take account of them...More
Mortuary workers face heavier load - 6 August, 2007
Extremely obese bodies are becoming a safety hazard in mortuaries, according to pathologists who are calling for new "heavy duty" autopsy facilities as Australians get fatter...More
Growing concern for fat of the land - 6 August, 2007
...The obesity epidemic is hitting rural areas hard, according to new reports showing more than two-thirds of their population is overweight or obese...More
Patients are ill served by revolving door of health CEO's - 4 August, 2007
Comment: Tradition has it that ministers are ephemeral creatures who come and go, while bureaucrats -- especially at senior levels -- last for ever. Ministers are there for the short term, to determine policy, set directions, make key decisions and provide political leadership. Departmental heads provide organisational leadership, expert advice and continuity...More
State News
Hospital grab sparks alarm - 3 August, 2007
Lives will be lost in the aftermath of the Prime Minister's shock takeover of the Mersey hospital, say the architects of two major Tasmanian health studies...More
International News
Doctors offering no-interest loans to patients - 30 August, 2007
Zero-interest financing, a familiar sales incentive at car dealerships and furniture stores, has found its way to another big-ticket consumer market; doctor's and dentist's offices...More
Census Income report feeds health-care debate - 29 August, 2007
Washington - Five years into an economics recovery, the benefits of growth are finally flitering down to some of the poorest Americans and the income of the typical family is climbing...More
AMA launches healthcare campaign - 24 August, 2007
LA - The association pitches its plan - using tax credits or voucehers to help buy coverage - to voters and candidates...More
WHO ties rising populaton, new diseases - 23 August, 2007
Geneva - a ballooning world population, intensive farming practices and changes in sexual behavior have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases, the U.N. health agency said Thursday...More
1 million N.Y.ers have no health insurance - 23 August, 2007
A sickening 1 million New Yorkers don't have health insurance, even though 700,000 of them have jobs, according to a report released yesterday by the city Health Department...More
Insurers lists on doctors under fire - 21 August, 2007
Doctors and regulators are pushing back against rating systems that some health insurers have developed to guide consumers in choosing physicians...More
Boosting five preventive services estimated to save thousands of lives - 7 August, 2007
Reuters Health: More than 100,000 lives could be saved in the US each year, if use of just five preventive services were increased, according to study findings released Tuesday by the Partnership for Prevention...More
Other News & Reports
Success stories in Indigenous health
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation report...More
Effectiveness of shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in chronic disease management
Cochrane paper...More
Economic evaluation of services for a National Health Scheme: The case for a fairness-based framework
Australian Policy Online...More
The statistical evidence for offshore outsourcing and its impact on the Australian labour force
Australian Policy Online...More
Life expectancy, ageing, disability and demand for disability studies
Australian Policy Online...More
A passion for policy: essays in public sector reform
This collection of papers is concerned with issues of policy, development, practice, implementation and performance...More
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