date:May 15, 2014
hael Moore, CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia.
Almost $8.6 billion will be cut from the Health Budget over 4 years, Mr Moore said. It has long been said that prevention is better than cure certainly prevention is cheaper than treatment and its false economy to cut preventive health funding to achieve short term savings, he said.
As it stands, only about 2 per cent of the health budget is spent on prevention if the Government wants to reduce pressure on the health budget over