The new Australian Government will confront major challenges in the funding and delivery of health care.

The search for effective and lasting solutions will require a consultative approach to deciding the nation’s priority health problems and to designing the health system that will best address them; issues of bureaucratic and fiscal responsibility can then follow.

The Menzies Centre for Health Policy is dedicated to examining these challenges critically in several ways through media and journal publications, seminar series and discussion papers and program analyses.

Discussion Papers and Program Analyses

• Russell L. A Primary Care Reform Agenda for Australia


• Russell L, Leeder SR. Making a Difference in Indigenous Health, January 2008.


• Russell L. An Assessment of Commonwealth Mental Health Programs, July 2008.


• Russell L. Medicare Programs to Improve Access to Mental Health Service


• Analysis of PBS Costs and Prescription Numbers

Publications

• Russell L. Health-care report not quite what the doctor ordered, The Canberra Times, 18 February 2009.


• Russell L. A primary care reform agenda for Australia, Australian Policy Online, 16 May 2009


• Lesley M Russell, Anne-marie Boxall and Stephen R Leeder, Australian Government health advisory groups and health policy:seeking a horse, finding a camel, MJA, Volume 189 Number 10.  A copy of this article is available at http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_10_171108/rus10981_fm.pdf


• Russell L. Boxall A-m. Working together the key to care, The Canberra Times, 21 July 2008.


• Russell LM, Rubin GL, Leeder SR.  Preventive health reform: what does it mean for public health?  Med J Aust 2008; 188(12):715-719.  A copy of this article is available at http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/188_12_160608/rus10476_fm.pdf


• Russell L. Health reforms can learn from the past, The Canberra Times, 27 March 2008.


• Lesley Russell, Stephen R Leeder, Bruce K Armstrong, James A Gillespie and George L Rubin, The first 100 days: an open letter to the new Minister for Health, MJA 2007; 187 (11/12): 608-609. A copy of the letter is available at http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/rus11291_fm.pdf.


• Russell L. Strong prescription needed for our health system, The Canberra Times, 4 December 2007.


• Bruce K Armstrong, James A Gillespie, Stephen R Leeder, George L Rubin and Lesley M Russell, Challenges in health and health care for Australia, MJA 2007; 187 (9): 485-4.  A copy of this article is available at http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_09_051107/arm11047_fm.pdf