Health systems change
Our policy research outlines the changes needed to address modern day health problems.
Australia’s health system is a 20th-century design, focusing on treating traumatic injury, infectious diseases and single diseases. Today, it struggles to provide all Australian’s equitable access to care and often fails to prevent and manage the rapidly increasing issue of chronic disease.
The growing burden of chronic disease in Australia threatens to overwhelm the health budget, the capacity of health services and the health workforce. More than one-third of that burden is preventable or can be reduced through effective, evidence-based changes to policy.
