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The CAA and its state associations advocate on behalf of:

1. Chiropractic care, the chiropractic profession, and the patients chiropractors help.

2. The Australian population, to ensure they have cost effective, equitable, high quality and safe healthcare.

This is done through a variety of strategies including lobbying politicians, working with peak health and consumer organisations to drive health reform and negotiations with health funds.

The CAA’s advocacy strategy involves:

• Establishing the legitimacy of the chiropractic profession in health policy circles

• Becoming a part of, and a voice within the reform of the health system

• Shifting the focus of the healthcare system from acute care in hospitals to effective primary care

• Advocating and lobbying for two pathways of primary care – the GP disease model and the allied health wellness model

• Arguing that chiropractic care is the core of the wellness pathway – specifically through the future up skilling of practitioners through the adoption of value added chiropractic services

The CAA has worked actively with health bodies, such as Allied Health Professions Australia, to be a part of efforts to enhance the collaboration between health care professionals in primary care. The CAA was a collaborator in the Chronic Disease Management initiative coordinated by AHPA and funded by the Australian Better Health Initiative.

Here you will find CAA media releases, submissions, a range of information on chiropractic care and political / advocacy initiatives undertaken by the Association.