Tasmania has some of the worst health outcomes in the country, but one panel of experts is coming together in an attempt to reverse this.
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The group will come together as a panel to discuss what it will take to make Tasmania the nation’s healthiest state by 2025 in a special public forum as part of the University of Tasmania’s Research Week
The panel will include Jerril Rechter from VicHealth, the Heart Foundation’s Graeme Lynch, 26TEN’s Sue Costello and other influential spokespeople.
UTAS healthcare improvement professor and panel member Leigh Kinsman said Tasmania needed to act now to get its health back on track in the future.
“By any measurable disease outcome we’re worse than the rest of Australia by a long way, this includes things like heart disease, cancer, strokes and arthritis,” Professor Kinsman said.
“We’ve got that perfect storm of those lifestyle factors such as low employment and low education levels that contribute to that melting pot of bad health.”
Professor Kinsman said while the goal of making Tasmania the healthiest state was an ambitious one, it was realistic.
The forum will take place in the UTAS Arts Building at Newnham on Wednesday, August 31 from 3pm until 5pm.