The Challenges Facing The Primary Health Care Sector

Introduction There was interest in how policy reforms could address the challenges facing the Primary Health Care (PHC) sector in Australia. The different areas that have an impact on this are how successful the Federal Government Incentives and Reforms have been progressing. When looking at these areas, it is important to take into consideration how and what the challenges facing the PHC in Australia are and what the outcomes have revealed. Further, the intricacies of developing policy and the effectiveness of health and policy reforms are also important in ascertaining the efficiency of any policy reform that is undertaken. Another area crucial in determining the efficiency of policies within the PHC is the effectiveness of previous reforms of policy and why policy reforms have failed in the past. Finally, by evaluating evidence-based policy and the results of this research will also give insight into the effectiveness of the PHC policies. 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