Health Planning: Australian Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781864489804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 448 str.

Kathy Eagar; Pamela Grant; Vivian Lin

Opis

Increasing concern about a positive return on investment in health leads to a need to make choices. As a result, skills in planning are increasingly being required of managers, providers and policy makers in health care. Experienced planners and teachers Kathy Eagar, Pamela Garrett and Vivian Lin have written a comprehensive introduction that bridges the theory and practice of health planning. They outline the health policy and planning context, the impact of different resource allocation environments on planning, and explain the processes and the technical skills needed to undertake service, programme, corporate, business and facility planning.

Spis treści

List of figures, tables and boxes

Abbreviations

Preface

About the authors

About the case study authors

Part I Overview and context of health policy and planning

1. Introduction to health planning

2. Trends and issues in the Australian health system

3. A brief history of health planning

Part II Planning in different resource environments

4. Planning in the context of resource allocation

5. Planning in the Australian private health care sector

Part III Core health planning skills

6. Identifying health needs and issues

7. Information and evidence for health planning

8. Community involvement in health planning

9. Forecasting

10. Developing goals, objectives and strategies in health planning

11. Setting priorities and selecting interventions

Part IV Specialist health planning practice

12. Service planning

13. Program planning for health

O autorze

Kathy Eagar is Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Service Development at the University of Wollongong. Pamela Garrett is Senior Planner at the South Western Sydney Area Health Service and teaches Health Care Management at the University of Western Sydney. Vivian Lin is Professor of Public Health and Head of School at La Trobe University.