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Invest in health now for a better future
Dr Mukesh Haikerwal AO | October 11, 2011Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, a General Medical Practitioner and Chair of Council of the World Medical Association, delivered the following address at Global Access Partners’ National Economic Review 2011: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit on Friday 16 September 2011.
Health is very important to all Australians. The wellbeing of the nation extends beyond good health, ill health, clinical care, and beyond illness prevention to core parameters such as productivity, economic growth, confidence and the state of our own society. There are many social determinants of health that affect this, like nutrition.