A working group was set up by the Minister for Health, Mrs Eileen Desmond TD in October 1981 "to examine the main components, both institutional and community, of the psychiatric services, to assess the existing services, to clarify their objectives and to draw up planning guidelines for future development of the service with due regard to cost implications, to carry out such studies and to tak...

T his session started with dr. Marchessault presenting highlights from her research project, " The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy: A Case study " (see pages 29–43 of this special Issue). semi-structured interviews with 28 participants revealed that a multitude of factors were involved in establishing MCHP. donald Orchard, then Minister of Health for Manitoba, and deputy Minister frank Maynar...

In March last year Churchyard helped facilitate a pivotal petition appealing for urgent intervention to address TB on the mines to then national health minister Barbara Hogan and the Minister of Minerals and Energy Affairs, Buyelwa Sonjica. It was signed by the leading local and international TB control experts and led, he said, to the mining industry taking ‘great offence’. The health policy c...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X ?? May 2010 192 ?? 1-2 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 1899 www.mja.com.au Viewpoint pillory the delay, but with such a complex system an stake, caution is admirable. The real questions are solution offered on 3 March 2010 for public hospita and hat proble s will it solve? Further debat needed. The NHHRC report had worthy features and in fundame...

The healing power of nature, vis medicatrix naturae, has traditionally been defined as an internal healing response designed to restore health. Almost a century ago, famed biologist Sir John Arthur Thomson provided an additional interpretation of the word nature within the context of vis medicatrix, defining it instead as the natural, non-built external environment. He maintained that the heali...

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More public health nurses are needed to respond to an ageing population and risk factors such as obesity and dementia, health minister Dan Poulter has said.