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By contrast, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports that the commonwealth only expends $3.6bn, with an increase of only 2.1% per annum. AIHW also notes that all governments only increased their spend by 1.5% per capita between 2014-15 and 2018-19 and that the proportion of total health expenditure spent on mental health actually decreased by 1.1%. It remains at 7.5%, and this is largely unchanged since 1992.
If we only see very limited new investments in this budget, then we must stop and ask âwhyâ? Common answers include stigma and structural discrimination. Others note the lack of simple âannounceablesâ. After all there is no simple âsocial vaccineâ. Governments are now working on new federal-state agreements and âwhole of governmentâ responses. So it is likely that real action is postponed (once again) till after the next election.
‘People are walking around with really high levels of distress’: Australia’s regional mental health plight Celina Ribeiro
Dr Katherine Graham has been a GP in Horsham for 12 years now. It’s a market town in the Wimmera region, about halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide; one of those larger-sized rural towns where people within a two-hour radius come to do the big shop. It’s surrounded by agriculture: cropping, sheep, cattle.
There are about 20,000 people in Horsham, but tens of thousands more from surrounding areas use the town as a hub for their health care. For those people Horsham does not offer much if their mental health requires care.
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ICRC Sri Lanka COVID-19 response 2020 in pictures Joint ICRC–Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) emergency relief assistance was carried out island-wide with the support of local authorities to improve the daily food consumption of the most vulnerable households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ICRC The pandemic brought life to a standstill. The imposition of the countrywide curfew meant that people could not go out to earn a living; those who rely on daily wages were the hardest hit. In partnership with the SLRCS, the emergency relief assistance was carried out in two phases, benefiting 11,148 households (48,240 people) living in 25 districts across Sri Lanka, ensuring they could meet their daily food needs.