Doing Health Policy in Australia

ISBN-13: 9781741753950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 252 str.

Paul Dugdale

Opis

This insider's view of Australian health policy is written for students and professionals in health management roles. It deals with the history and idiosyncrasies of the Australian health system as well as current issues such as terrorism, avian flu, Aboriginal health, and environmental pressures. It also explains how health policies are developed and how stakeholders can change them.

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.