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  • The Public Health need to ‘Raise the Rate’

    The Public Health need to ‘Raise the Rate’

    Dr Ingrid Johnston Having a healthy population is good for the country. Being unwell reduces productivity and increases costs to the health system. As health costs spiral with an ageing population, making public policy decisions that will inevitably and unnecessarily add to those costs is a bad option. But we…