Public health needs a strong, well-planned advocacy program.
Public health is the poor relation in the health system and attracted little additional funding from the 2006 Budget. A modest increase in the allocation to prevention would enable significant advances to be made across a wide range of public health activity and research areas. PHAA should take the lead in developing a planned and sustained advocacy program.
Daube
Mike
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Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. M.Daube@curtin.edu.au
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