TY - JOUR PY - 2009// TI - Our public health system: an accident waiting to happen? JO - Medical journal of Australia A1 - Dietz, Hans Peter SP - 345 EP - 346 VL - 191 IS - 6 N2 - Our public health system, addicted to increasing centralisation and regulation, is pushing our everyday work environment beyond the point of sustainability - it has become too complex. Like an ecosystem grown too complex to resist sudden environmental change, public health organisations have become "brittle", unable to respond to changing conditions. Another bureaucratic restructuring, such as recommended by the Garling report, can only be self-defeating. It is time for us to design systems small enough, and therefore resilient enough, to meet tomorrow's challenges.
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