THE AUSTRALIAN HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM - HUNTER,JOHN LONG SHADOW

Authors
DUGGAN JM
Citation
Jm. Duggan, THE AUSTRALIAN HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM - HUNTER,JOHN LONG SHADOW, Medical journal of Australia, 167(9), 1997, pp. 481-483
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Medical journal of Australia → ACNP
ISSN journal
0025729X
Volume
167
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
481 - 483
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-729X(1997)167:9<481:TAHS-H>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
In Australia, organised medicine fails to show effective leadership in health care delivery, health bureaucracies lack long-term plans, the community is concerned about the health care system and, although deni ed by politicians, there is de facto health care rationing - surely it is time for an in-depth review?