Back pain: a National Health Priority Area in Australia?

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Wilk, Victor J
Yelland, Michael J
Oei, Michael B
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2009
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On behalf of the Australian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine (AAMM) and the Australasian Faculty of Musculoskeletal Medicine (AFMM), we would thank Briggs and Buchbinder for raising the topic of back pain as a National Health Priority Area (NHPA) for debate.1 The AAMM and its teaching arm, the AFMM, have been arguing for years that higher priority should be given to the management of low back pain, and we certainly support the arguments for making back pain an NHPA.On behalf of the Australian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine (AAMM) and the Australasian Faculty of Musculoskeletal Medicine (AFMM), we would thank Briggs and Buchbinder for raising the topic of back pain as a National Health Priority Area (NHPA) for debate.1 The AAMM and its teaching arm, the AFMM, have been arguing for years that higher priority should be given to the management of low back pain, and we certainly support the arguments for making back pain an NHPA.
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Journal Title
Medical Journal of Australia
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191
Issue
8
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Wilk VJ, Yelland MJ and Oei MB. Back pain: a National Health Priority Area in Australia? Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 469-471. © Copyright 2009 The Medical Journal of Australia – reproduced with permission.
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Biomedical and clinical sciences
Psychology