those operational. 2 (A “place ” is the community equivalent of a hospital “bed”.) When all places are fully operational and occupied (anticipated to be in 2008), the projected annual operating budget will be about $150 million. Transition care is a priority area of the National Action Plan 2004–2008 for improving the care of older people across the acute–aged care continuum, and is informed by earlier initiatives within the Aged Care Innovative Pool scheme. 3 T Given the significant investment in the program and the undeniable importance of the program’s objectives, it is imperative that future decisions regarding the program and the overall allocation of health dollars are determined on the basis of sound evidence. In particular, investment in the program should not come at the expense of other programs that support

he outstanding advances in medical knowledge and technological capabilities over recent decades are widely recognised. However, there are serious and ubiquitous problems that undermine these advances. The cost of modern medicine is escalating and becoming difficult to sustain.

an analysis of the recommendations and the implications for quality and safety in Australian public hospitals

Pertussis prevention and treatment:

is the first of what will be a series of announcements on health policy and funding. It is nearly all about public hospitals and federal–state financial relationships. We will have to see if and how the later announcements interact. However, access to hospitals is the biggest single issue in the public mind. The basic issues are clear. The states and territories own and operate public hospitals under 5-yearly cost sharing agreements with the federal government. The initial shares were 50%–50%, but the Australian Government portion had steadily fallen to a low of 42 % by 2007–08, and will be only slightly higher by the end of the current agreements in 2012–13. The policy report correctly identifies the major problem as the inability of the states to fund their share from their own resources. The Australian Government has the money and it must pay more; but that has been obvious for years. The Australian Government’s response is the one that, short of a

may even ISSN: be 0025-729X unethical. 15 We propose that decisions about changes in healthcare September should 2003 179 consider 6 313-315scientific rationality, clinical reasonableness and resource implications, ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.com.au as well Viewpoint as evidence

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], with the exception of Haiti, where several case reports have been published in the past decades [6,7]. Also, a recently con-ducted cross-sectional serological survey in Port-au-Prince revealed prevalences of cysticercal antibodies of 2.8 % (6/216) in healthy adults [8], which is comparable to those found in some