Tag: primary health care
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Lack of access to primary care forcing asylum seekers into emergency departments
Dr Zelalem Mengesha Some asylum seekers in Australia are ineligible for Medicare, meaning they have restricted access to health care services and poorer health outcomes than their Medicare eligible counterparts. In NSW, these asylum seekers are allowed to access some health services under the Medicare Ineligible Asylum Seekers – Provision…
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Seize the opportunity: prioritise comprehensive primary healthcare reform
Introduction by Croakey: System-wide and comprehensive primary healthcare reform is “needed to bring together an increasingly fragmented system, where the most disadvantaged struggle to get the care they need, when they need it”, according to public health practitioner and Masters of Global Health student Lauren Richardson. In a submission to…
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Keeping Pathology Testing in First Nations Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Isabelle Haklar and Tamika Regnier, Flinders University International Centre for Point-of-Care Testing For some rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical services, turnaround times for traditional pathology testing can span weeks, with samples needing to be transported to urban laboratories hundreds of kilometres away. Roads and runways can…