Health equity and the budget
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Public hospitals and Medicare funding make up approximately 40 billion dollars of the annual federal health budget. They also tend to dominate discussions around health policy. Yet there is strong relationship between health and an individual’s social and economic circumstances. The poor die younger than the well off. So how do we achieve better health equity? How can we improve overall public health?
Listen to the Big Ideas Panel discussion on the ABC website.
Recorded on May 12th, 2016, at the “A fair go for all” policy forum, at the ANU. Presented by the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity
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