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Health Care Reform

Primary health care reform: equity is the key

Michael R Kidd, Ian T Watts and Deborah C Saltman
MJA 2008; 189 (4): 221-222

Equity must be the basis of primary health care if reform is to deliver the outcomes we all want

Key propositions

  • Prompt development of an appropriately resourced national primary health care strategy, which includes the flexibility to achieve equity of access and equity of outcomes.

  • Much greater government investment in the primary health care workforce and in capital infrastructure for primary care services.

  • Enhanced models of access to medicines for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the extension of this model to other at-risk groups.

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