James S.Lawson is Emeritus Professor and past Head of the School of Health Services Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has extensive experience as a clinician, particularly in the field of child health, and as a senior health service manager. He has been a hospital medical director, the head of a state health department and a director of a state health policy and planning division. He is an international health service consultant for the World Health Organisation and the Asian Development Bank. He has published widely. In 2003 he was made a Member of the Ord...