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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 April 2008. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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International News
Other News & Reports
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Multiple diseases risk higher for Aboriginies - 29 April, 2008
Aboriginies were far more likely than non-Aboriginal people to have three chronic diseases at the same time, new research has found...More
Blame laid over alcopop tax hike - 28 April, 2008
A move to impose a hefty tax increase on pre-mixed drinks has been welcomed by health groups as a major step in curbing teenage binge-drinking...More
Clarity and vision lost en route - 26 April, 2008
The year is 2020. And delegates to last weekend's futuristic summit would be delighted to know that you arrive at work on bike...More
Rich 'get more hospital care' - 24 April, 2008
The rich are getting more hospital care than the poor, undermining Medicare's promise of universal access...More
Three new bodies to keep Australia well - 21 April, 2008
Australia needs to break down the barriers between state and federal health systems but do so partly by setting up three entirely new health bodies - to promote healthy lifestyles, tackle inequality and link with Asia-Pacific neighbours...More
Messages on health become No1 issue - 18 April, 2008
A war on tobacco smoking and unhealthy eating and a massive shake-up in the way general practitioners are funded will be among the key ideas debated at this weekend's 2020 Summit...More
Roxon's $15m push on mental health - 18 April, 2008
NSW, Queensland and Tasmania have been named as the biggest underperformers in mental health funding despite a nationwide boost to the sector's finances...More
Medicare's millions to aid states - 17 April, 2008
Hundreds of millions of health dollars would be pumped into regions and populations under-serviced by doctors under a radical shake-up of federal-state healthcare pacts being pushed by the Western Australia and South Australian governments...More
Mental health services 'failing' - 14 April, 2008
Psychologists are bulk-billing fewer than one-third of patients referred to them under a new Medicare scheme designed to improve mental health services, fuelling claims the system needs to be redesigned...More
Services must be offered on needs basis - 12 April, 2008
Opinion: The principles published this week by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) are laudable, and if they underpinned a national health system might provide a decent foundation for the system in Australia...More
National Preventative Health Tasforce announced - 9 April, 2008
The Australian Government today announced the establishment of a new National Preventative Health Taskforce...More
State News
Medical course admission to use undergrad level marks - 12 April, 2008
Sydney University will place more emphasis than previously on marks gained in an undergraduate degree when selecting applicants for its graduate-entry medical course, after a review process found evidence that this score was an effective predictor of future performance...More
Sale of airports will fund hospitals - 16 April, 2008
The Queensland Government has gone outside its normal budget processes six weeks before the state budget is to be brought down by putting its entire interest in aiprorts on the market to fund hospital expansions...More
ENT Operations start on indigenous kids - 14 April, 2008
About 500 indigenous children will begin to undergo ear, nose and throat surgery from today as part of the Northern Territory intervention program...More
International News
Would universal coverage lengthen life expectancies? - 24 April, 2008
The fact that life-spans in some parts of the U.S. have declined in the last quarter-century will no doubt add fuel to the fires of the health-care reform debate...More
Electronic health records not always accurate, Doctors say - 18 April, 2008
Electronic medical records may not always be accurate, up-to-date or private as companies such as Microsoft and Google seek a bigger role in managing the data, Harvard Medical School doctors say...More
Geriatric care is facing crisis - 16 April, 2008
Health care institutions must rapidly increase training in geriatric care...More
As factories close, health care is 'employer of last resort' - 16 April, 2008
Obama and Clinton are bustling around Pennsylvania, talking about how they’re going to save manufacturing jobs. Maybe they should be talking about how their plans to expand health...More
Study finds many patients dissatisfied with hospitals - 1 April, 2008
Many hospital patients are dissatisfied with some aspects of their care and might not recommend their hospitals to friends and relatives...More
Other Reports
Business Council of Australia (BCA) - Opportunity for Australia to budget for future prosperity
Download via BCA website
AIHW Public Health Expenditure Report - 2005-2006
Download via AIHW website
Labour force statistice - 1986 - 2006 (OECD report)
Download via SourceOECD website
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