A Greater Australia: Population, policies and governance - CEDA

3.4Healthcare delivery for our ageing population:What does Australia need to do?Francesco Paolucci and Ian McRaeDr Francesco Paolucci is an economist and Fellow at the Australian Centre for Economic Research onHealth at the Australian National University. He held academic appointments as (visiting) researcher andlecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna, at the Institute of Health Economicsand Management at the University of Oslo, and at iBMG at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Since2005, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Health Economics Association.Over the last decade Dr Paolucci has published extensively on health economics, and health policy andreform nationally and internationally. This has included, one single authored book and two edited specialissues in peer reviewed journals as well as over 25 academic peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and book reviews.Dr Ian McRae is a research fellow at the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at theANU. Ian has a PhD in health economics studying supply of and demand for GP services in Australia, and priorto joining ANU was a policy advisor and manager in the Department of Health and Ageing overseeing theMedicare Benefits Schedule. His interests now lie in research on the economics of the primary health caresystem and the policy implications of this research.A Greater Australia: Population, Policies and Governance162