@PeterBreadon

Grattan Institute Program Director for Health and Aged Care

Joined April 2022
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My new report with @ingrid_burfurd shows that too many older adults aren’t getting vaccinated for COVID, flu, shingles & pneumococcal disease. 💉💉💉💉 These vaccines are very safe for people recommended to get them and they slash health risks. 🧵(1/7) grattan.edu.au/report/a-fair…

A fair shot: How to close the vaccination gap

Vaccination rates have plummeted since the height of the pandemic. Australia urgently needs a policy reset to save lives and ease pressure on hospitals.

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Governments need a plan to turn things around, clarifying governance, raising ambition, and tackling low and high barriers alike. (6/7)
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There are strong foundations to build on including improved data, growing pharmacy vaccination, and lessons from child vaccination and pandemic programs. But vaccine complacency, confusion and distrust have risen, so agreeing a national plan is urgent. (7/7)
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A new report with @Lach_fox shows how better policies to reduce salt intake would improve health, delay deaths, and reduce healthcare costs. 🧵(1) grattan.edu.au/report/sneaky…

Sneaky salt: how Australia can shake its salt habit

Eating less salt could see Australians collectively living an extra 36,000 healthy years in the next two decades, a new Grattan Institute report finds.

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These gains don't just pay for themselves, they're also just the start of what's possible. Our recommendations are for targets other countries have set, met, then made tougher. Like other countries, we should keep improving the policy to make more health gains. (12)
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Thanks also to Kathy Trieu and @BruceNeal1 at @georgeinstitute for all their research on salt and health, which we drew on, and their generous advice. (13)
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