Doing Health Policy in Australia

ISBN-13: 9780367717971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 252 str.

Paul Dugdale

Opis

An insider's account of the Australian health system, and the economic, political and social dynamics which shape contemporary health policy.

Spis treści

1 The health policy scene

In rude health?; The health enlightenment; The Medicare era; Reforming the future

2 What is health?

The nature of health; Health disciplines; Population health and politics

3. Health policy

State power and public policy; Policy and research; Public finance for health;

The assemblage of the health system

4 Governing doctors

Governing pastoral care in the liberal state; Medical licensing; General practice incentives; Neoliberalism in GP financing; Professional freedom and the Practice Incentives Program

5. Public hospitals and public health

The origins of modern clinical medicine; The origins of public health; Public health and public hospitals; The transformation in hospital funding

6. The making of Medicare

The nationalisation of medical insurance; Governing health insurance in the Medicare era; Clinical freedom and the introduction of Medicare

7. Quality and

O autorze

Associate Professor Paul Dugdale BMBS, MA, MPH, PhD, FAFPHM has twenty years experience in health policy. He is Director of the ANU Centre for Health Stewardship and a former Chief Health Officer of the ACT.