"According to the Rudd's Government's preventive health policy, spending more taxpayers money on so-called preventive primary care will stem the obesity and lifestyle-related chronic disease epidemics, keep people well and out of hospital, and ensure the long-term sustainability of Medicare as the population ages into the 21st century. Evidence-based policy is the government's mantra. This policy monograph analyses the implications of the government's preventive health agenda which is centred around its GP Super Clinics policy and finds that the evidence does not support the claims that are frequently made about the long-run benefits of focusing more heavily on prevention."--Provided by publisher
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"Papers in Health and Ageing (3)"
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Also available as a pdf download at: http://www.cis.org.au/images/stories/policy-monographs/pm-84.pdf
