On the ABC's AM program, Sophie Scott spoke with health economist Professor Philip Clarke about how to
save health dollars without weakening our primary care system.
In today's stretched economy, finding cheaper and more efficient ways to spend our
public health dollars is critical.
An accompanying editorial by Elizabeth Jackson, M.D., MPH, of the University of Michigan Health System, said the study highlights the urgent need for smoking cessation among PAD patients and getting patients to quit can improve care and save
significant health dollars over the long term.
When we eat things that contain white flours, we are taking more «
health dollars» out of the «health bank» than we are depositing.
When I look back now, it seems incredible that most of
our health dollars and efforts were once spent on centralised, institutional systems of care that contributed relatively little to health outcomes for the large investment they incurred.
Shorten said it was not good enough that Australia allocates less than 2 cents in
every health dollar to prevention measures, and he stressed the importance of reducing fragmentation in the system and improving continuity of care.
To increase the value of
our health dollars we need to be breaking down current barriers to access, not increasing them through imposing additional costs.