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Paternalism reconsidered.(Australia's medical services)
IN LAUNCHING Australia's Health 2006, my immediate role is to congratulate the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for its good work, but my more important duty is to draw some suitable policy lessons from it. By all means let's focus on the generally good state of Australians' health and the professionalism of our health services, but let's also examine what is probably the biggest and certainly the most intractable challenge we face, as illustrated by the statistics in the report.
Everyone involved in providing health services can be pleased that Australians' life expectancy is among the top five countries in the world. Overall, it seems that our massive ...
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