Tag: health economics
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Pathway to universal access to essential oral healthcare
Tan Nguyen and Sneha Sethi Successive Australian governments have struggled to address the funding gap to include oral health under Medicare. The burden of oral diseases in Australia amounts to 120,799 disability-adjusted life years for the 2023 population’s lifetime – which equates to $10.8 trillion in productivity losses. Among the…
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Why cancer economics research matters
A/Prof Louisa Gordon (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute), Dr Daniel Lindsay (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute), Dr Nikki McCaffrey (Deakin University), Dr Alison Pearce (The Daffodil Centre Sydney University), and Dr Katharina Merollini (University of Sunshine Coast) Each year 150,000 Australians are told they have cancer, leaving them fearful and…