Editorial: Chronic illness: policies and paradoxes

Rosalie Aroni and Hal Swerissen

Abstract

It is almost a truism to state that Australia has experienced a health transition from infectious and acute diseases to chronic disease, impairment and disability in the last century (Murray & Lopez, 1996; Beaglehole & Bonita, 1997; Australian Institute o

Australian Journal of Primary Health 9(3) 7 - 8  doi:10.1071/PY03016