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:: Meeting Notes Ross Gittins’ dinner remarks Further insights into prevention: The largest leap in life expectancy occurred towards the end of the 1960s through to around 2010, where we enjoyed an unprecedented extra 20 years in life expectancy within that short period of time. Its thought this is mostly due prevention and subsequently improved treatment of cardiovascular disease (given that other determinants hadn’t changed that much during this time – prior to this period, nutrition and control communicable diseases).
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Source: https://twitter.com/ShaunCGath/status/1765898750772551688 Shaun Gath used to regulate private health insurance before it was taken over by APRA.
Dear HRG Comrades, As always, I was deeply impressed at Wednesday’s meeting by the breadth and depth of experience and expertise contained within the body of membership of the HRG. It is matched only by the strength of passion and commitment to improving the Australian healthcare system. It worries me at times that well thought out, highly innovative proposals for improvement die when the meeting ends. Not entirely so, as many HRG members pursue them within their own sphere. I