Australia confronts the challenge of chronic disease

• 1 Health Group Strategies Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW.
• 2 Australian Health Policy Institute at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
• 3 School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

---

• 1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Chronic diseases and associated risk factors in Australia, 2001. AIHW Catalogue No. PHE 33. Canberra, AIHW, 2002.
• 2. Mathers C, Vos T, Stevenson C. The burden of disease and injury in Australia. AIHW Catalogue No. PHE 17. Canberra, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1999.
• 3. Committee on Rapid Advancement Projects: health care finance and delivery systems. Fostering rapid advances in health care: learning from system demonstrations. Washington DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 2002.
• 4. Gross PF. Chronic illness: “we need detailed funded policies, not more words”. Healthcover 2003; 13: 43-45.
• 5. Wagner EH, Austin BT, Davis C, et al. Improving chronic illness care: translating evidence into action. Health Affairs 2001; 20: 64-78.
• 6. Van Der Weyden MB. Australian health policy research and development: where is it? [editorial]. Med J Aust 2002; 177: 586. <eMJA full text>
• 7. Anderson G, Krickman JR. Changing the chronic care system to meet people’s needs. Health Affairs 2001; 20: 146-160.
• 8. Foote SM, Hogan C. Disability profile and health care costs of Medicare beneficiaries under age sixty-five. Health Affairs 2001; 20: 242-253.
• 9. Cutler DM. Declining disability among the elderly. Health Affairs 2001; 20: 11-27.
• 10. Druss BG, Marcus SC, Olfson M, et al. Comparing the national economic burden of five chronic conditions. Health Affairs 2001; 20: 233-241.
• 11. The World Health Report 2002: reducing risk, promoting healthy life. Geneva, WHO. 2002.
• 12. Weingarten SR, Henning JM, Badamgarav E, et al. Interventions used in disease management programmes for patients with chronic illness — which ones work? Meta-analysis of published reports. BMJ 2002; 325: 925.
• 13. Berenson R, Horvath J. Confronting the barriers to chronic care management in Medicare. Health Affairs. Web Exclusive, 22 January 2003. Available at: www.healthaffairs.org/WebExclusives/Berenson_Web_Excl_012203.htm (accessed Jan 2003).
• 14. Blecher M. Beyond managed care. Hospital Health Networks 2001; 15: 50-53.
• 15. Master RJ, Eng C. Integrating acute and long-term care for high-cost populations. Health Affairs 2001; 20: 161-172.