Senate debates
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Questions without Notice
Medical Research Future Fund
2:17 pm
Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source
Every dollar invested in health and medical research returns, on average, $2.17 back into the health system. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report Cancer in Australia: in brief 2012 states that in the five years from 2006 to 2010 people living in the lower socioeconomic areas had higher mortality rates from cervical cancer—
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