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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Time to move: Arthritis

Arthritis affects more than three million people in Australia and costs our health and welfare systems more than $5.6 billion each year.  Arthritis Australia has published a series of reports as a road map for improving care for Australian arthritis sufferers.  The details are summarised in Time to move: Arthritis, a national strategy to reduce a costly burden.  Components of the strategy are awareness raising campaigns, health promotion and prevention, education and self-management support, multidisciplinary arthritis clinics, workforce capacity building and research.

Three other documents support the overall strategy:

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