Health Systems and Financing


In Australia and New Zealand health service financing is reliant on market forces and to a certain extent political expediency. There is evidence that a wide range of differentials in cost-effectiveness ratios for health interventions exists and good evidence to suggest there are highly variable procedure rates across both countries and between population sub-groups.

This evidence often underpins the quest for a priority setting mechanism able to identify desirable resource shifts. The College has developed policy documents that have reviewed health planning models which have highlighted areas of health planning and identified their failure to specify performance criteria and mechanisms for making choices. Currently the 'disease-based model' is the most widely used across both countries.

Policies:

Inequity and Health: a call to action (PDF file: 415KB)

Further Information: racp@racp.edu.au

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