Catholic Health Australia represents 75 hospitals and 550 residential and community aged care services and comprises
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
's largest non-government not-for-profit grouping of health and aged care services. Catholic Health Australia was established by the
Roman Catholic Church in Australia as the representative body of these health and aged care services.
It is the largest grouping of non-government health, aged and community care services in Australia and according to Catholic Health Australia, one in every ten Australians being cared for in hospitals or residing in aged care facilities are in Catholic health care institutions. Catholic Health Australia says its foundational principles are to service such interests as advocacy and policy development for the "Dignity of the Human Person"; "Service"; the "Common Good"; and "Preference for the Poor and Under-Served".
The group also advocates on behalf of its members to the Australian Governments on health- and aged care-related issues.
See also
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Catholic Social Services Australia Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) is a body that seeks to advance the social service ministry of the Catholic Church and consists of member welfare organisations. It was established as a commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conferen ...
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Health care in Australia
Health care in Australia operates under a shared public-private model underpinned by the Medicare (Australia), Medicare system, the national Single-payer healthcare, single-payer funding model. States and territories of Australia, State and ...
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Catholic Church and health care
The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in devel ...
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History of public health in Australia
References
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Further reading.
* Arbuckle, Gerald A. "Have Catholic healthcare ministries a future?." ''Australasian Catholic Record'' 101.4 (2024): 428-446.
* Austin, Rodger J. "The ministry of Catholic healthcare: a Church Law reflection on its future." ''Australasian Catholic Record,'' 73.2 (1996): 162-172.
* Belcher, Helen Maria. "Resisting the Welfare State: An examination of the response of the Australian Catholic Church to the national health schemes of the 1940s and 1970s." (PhD Dissertation University of Sydney, 2004)
Outline.
* Gleeson, Damian John. ''The professionalisation of Australian catholic social welfare, 1920-1985'' (Dissertation, UNSW Sydney, 2006
online
* Ryan, John Joseph. "Strategy transformation and change: changing paradigms in Australian Catholic health and aged care." (Diss. Curtin University, 2001
online
* Turner, Rosemary. "Catholic health care and aged care in Australia." ''Australasian Catholic Record'' 73.2 (1996): 136-145.
External links
Official Home PageAged Caring
Catholic health care
Health services companies of Australia
Catholic Church in Australia