| Description |
xvii, 343 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Rights and Markets: What Makes Sustainable Health Policy? / Linda Hancock -- 2. Policy, Power and Interests / Linda Hancock -- 3. Health, Public Sector Restructuring and the Market State / Linda Hancock -- 4. Commonwealth/State Relations in Health / Stephen Duckett -- 5. Health Care Funding and Rationing Health Care / Linda Hancock and Paul Mackey -- 6. Consumer Payments for Health Care / Sophie Hill -- 7. Casemix: Financing Hospital Services / Mary Draper -- 8. Contracting Out in the Health Sector / Michael Muetzelfeldt -- 9. Shifts in Community Health Care / Janine Smith -- 10. Performance Indicators for Aboriginal Health Services / Ian Anderson and Maggie Brady -- 11. Women's Health in a Changing State / Philomena Horsley, Sonya Tremellen and Linda Hancock -- 12. Health Indicators for Diversity / Liz Eckermann -- 13. Shifts in Mental Health Policy / Beth Wilson -- 14. Caring and the State / Linda Hancock and Sharon Moore |
| Summary |
"Health Policy in the Market State offers an overview of health policy in Australia, locating it within the broader context of power and interests analysis and shifts in government policy and public sector restructuring. It outlines the key issues in current health policy and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of specific policies and programs."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Casemix |
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Contracting out |
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Costs |
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Federal issue |
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Federal state finances |
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Government expenditure |
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Health care |
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Market forces |
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Public health |
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State issue |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-334) and index |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- Australia.
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Public health administration -- Australia.
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Public health -- Australia.
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Health Policy -- economics.
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Health Policy -- trends.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Author |
Hancock, Linda.
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| LC no. |
00001413 |
| ISBN |
1864487240 |
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