May
13
2012

How Is The Claim Of A Life Insurance Assessed?

Once a claim is made for a life insurance, the claims consultant of the company will check if the said policy is active or not when the event for which the claim is being made occurred. For every type... Read more
May
11
2012

Dental reform: a work in progress

This is the first in a series of analyses that will be cross-posted from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library analysing the health budget. In the article below, Amanda Biggs concludes that the dental reforms funded in the budget should be... Read more
May
09
2012

Today’s hot topic: what the Federal Budget will mean for the healthcare system

By Jody Fassina, Independent Political Consultant, JF Consulting As the raft of media alerts, political alerts and public and political commentary dictate today’s papers and coffee machine conversations, here’s the low down on the health highlights (or low lights) when... Read more
May
08
2012

Health and the Federal Budget: a wrap of links, news and reaction

Many of the Budget’s health measures have been announced or leaked in recent weeks, as previewed in this previous post. Below are links to key Budget papers, some of the health spends and cuts, details of the foreign aid... Read more
May
01
2012

Call for Unity

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Apr
10
2012

Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health

How can a wider audience be engaged in the broad-ranging and often complex issues of population health? Ben Harris-Roxas, a health impact assessment consultant, has some suggestions in the article below. And at the bottom of his piece are some... Read more
Apr
05
2012

Primary health care: when and where did it all begin?

Continuing the primary health care theme of the previous post, health policy expert Professor Philip Davies investigates the history of the terms “primary care” and “primary health care” – a topical matter given the legal action recently dropped by Primary... Read more
Apr
05
2012

2012 Australia Day Awards

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Mar
29
2012

The truth about YouTube

Yesterday the Cube team attended a fascinating digital breakfast hosted by Galaxy Research with guest speakers Kate Mason and Henning Dorstewitz from Google. With the explosion of viral videos, we explored and busted the top five myths about video content... Read more
Mar
19
2012

A welcome development: public disclosure of infection control performance of hospitals

The recent release of data about how well hospitals perform when it comes to ensuring staff wash their hands drew widespread media coverage. In the article below, Professor Lyn Gilbert, an infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist with a... Read more