Health Australia

Health impact assessment in Australia.

Vol. 16 No. 7–8 113 Gillis D. The people assessing their health (PATH) project: tools for community health impact assessment. Can J Public Health 1999; 90(Suppl): S53–S56. Mittelmark M, Gillis D, Hsu-Hage B. Community development: the role of HIA. In: Kemm J, Parry J, Palmer S, eds. Health impact assessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004: 143–52. Liverpool Public Health Observatory HIA ...

Health services research in Australia.

The long-awaited Wills Implementation Committee Report (CoA 2000), which was completed by November last year, has now been released. Wills’ earlier Report (CoA 1998) identified the need for the development of health services research capacity in Australia, and this new Report recommends how this should be done, through the establishment and support of several large multi-disciplinary centres. T...

Exploring Migrant Health in Australia

Health and Nutrition in Australia

Australia possesses one of the world’s safest food supplies, providing sufficient caloric and nutritional food to facilitate diets that minimise the risk of chronic disease. Despite this, a greater proportion of the Australian population is malnourished than ever before. It is apparent that the present system is failing to protect vulnerable segments of the population, harbouring unacceptable l...

HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIMS AND RISK EQUALISATION IN AUSTRALIA Health Insurance Claims and Risk Equalisation in Australia