Unemployment and health in Australia / Bronwyn Richardson -- Hospital case mix standardisation / Jill Hardwick -- Implications of the New South Wales doctors' dispute / Tony S. Pensabene -- A longitudinal study of health changes following the introduction of medicare / Jane Hall, Nellie Hall, and Richard Tweedie -- A contingency approach to the design and use of budgeting in a public teaching hospital / Margaret A. Abernathy -- A comparative cost analysis of terminal cancer care / D. Gray, D. Macadam, and D. Boldy -- Hospital output and the use of diagnosis related groups for purposes of economic and financial analysis / George Palmer -- The allocation of hospital costs to type of case / David Chant -- The economics of reducing hypertension through reduction of sodium intake / John Goss