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Improving Australia’s health requires better use of patient information

  • Written by Philip Clarke, Professor of Health Economics, University of Melbourne
imageAustralia's policies on preventing heart disease are based on outdated research from the US.from shutterstock.com

Fifty years after we passed a constitutional referendum to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Census, data limitations mean they are still not counted in many health statistics.

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