Health Systems of Australia and New Zealand
Diana Hetzel
John Glover
Sarah MacDonald
10.25905/5c2ee0c953736
https://torrens.figshare.com/articles/book/Health_Systems_of_Australia_and_New_Zealand/7545299
<p>Australia and New Zealand are
developed nations with generally healthy populations and long life expectancies
when compared internationally. Both health systems provide tax-funded,
subsidized health and hospital care and <u>pharmaceutical</u> items to their populations. While overall
levels of health are good, these benefits are not spread equally across the
populations, and Indigenous Australians and New Zealand Māori and Pacific
peoples fare worst on many socioeconomic and health indicators. Addressing
these <u>inequalities</u> and responding to the
increasing burden of age-related disease and disability are challenges that
both countries will have to meet, despite rising <u>health-care</u> costs and workforce pressures.</p>
<h2>International Encyclopedia of Public Health (2nd Ed),
2017, Pages 470-482</h2><h2><br></h2><h2></h2>
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Australia
Delivery of health care
Financing, health
Health-care reform
health status.ObjectiveThis study
Health system – organization and administration
Indigenous health – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Maori health
New Zealand
Pacific Islander health
Health Care