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RURAL AND REMOTE IMPLICATIONS OF A NEW STRUCTURE FOR AUSTRALIA S HEALTH SYSTEM

INDICATORS OF PERFORMANCE. Australia ranks third amongst comparable OECD countries for life expectancy, sixth for healthy life expectancy and third in overall health system effectiveness;relative to Canada, the UK and the US, a higher proportion of Australians see a doctor promptly when they need

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RURAL AND REMOTE IMPLICATIONS OF A NEW STRUCTURE FOR AUSTRALIA S HEALTH SYSTEM

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    1. RURAL AND REMOTE IMPLICATIONS OF A NEW STRUCTURE FOR AUSTRALIA’S HEALTH SYSTEM Andrew Podger Presentation to National Conference on Rural Health Albury, March 2007

    2. INDICATORS OF PERFORMANCE Australia ranks third amongst comparable OECD countries for life expectancy, sixth for healthy life expectancy and third in overall health system effectiveness; relative to Canada, the UK and the US, a higher proportion of Australians see a doctor promptly when they need to, and rate their care as very good or excellent; waiting times for emergency departments are shorter than for the US, Canada and the UK; waiting times for elective surgery are shorter than for Canada, NZ and the UK; but life expectancy of Indigenous Australians is about 17 years below that of non-indigenous Australians.

    3. Changes in mortality rates 1907 to 2000

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