posted on 2019-01-04, 04:27authored byDiana Hetzel, John GloverJohn Glover, Sarah MacDonald
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 pharmaceutical 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 inequalities and responding to the
increasing burden of age-related disease and disability are challenges that
both countries will have to meet, despite rising health-care costs and workforce pressures.
International Encyclopedia of Public Health (2nd Ed),
2017, Pages 470-482