Prevention agency best medicine to stop chronic health crisis
An independent US-style Centre for Disease Control could push government policy in a direction that can save lives, reduce pressure on hospitals, and help the economy.
Australia’s governments aren’t doing enough to stop chronic disease before it starts. Instead, we have been sleepwalking into a sicker future that will condemn millions of Australians to avoidable disease and disability.
Australia’s healthcare system is facing interlocking crises. Every day the pandemic is still causing deaths, taking up hospital beds, and leaving people debilitated by long COVID.
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Peter Breadon is director of the Health and Aged Care Program at Grattan Institute
