| Description |
xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Health economics and health policy / Gavin Mooney -- 2. The Australian health care system / Ron Donato and Richard Scotton -- 3. Health expenditure / J. R. G. Butler -- 4. The doctor business / Richard Scotton -- 5. Economics of hospital care / S. J. Duckett -- 6. Pharmaceuticals / Glenn Salkeld, Andrew Mitchell and Suzanne Hill -- 7. The economics of aged care: achieving quality and containing costs / Anna Howe -- 8. Evaluation of health services / Rob Carter and Anthony Harris -- 9. Health insurance / Helen Owens -- 10. The health care financing debate / Jeff Richardson -- 11. Managed competition / Richard Scotton -- 12. Public health: some economic perspectives / Alan Shiell and Rob Carter -- 13. Economic issues in Aboriginal health care / Gavin Mooney, Stephen Jan and Virginia Wiseman |
| Summary |
Familiarity with economic issues - such as how to assess health outcomes, how to assign resources efficiently and what financial arrangements will promote equity as well as efficiency - is essential to understanding health policy. Economics and Australian Health Policy offers this understanding to readers with and without formal economic training. This collection has been specially commissioned to address both Australia's most pressing policy issues and the needs of public health and health economic policy-makers, academics, commentators and students |
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The health system is Australia's eighth largest industry, accounting for 14 per cent of the nation's government expenditure. This text explores the economics of Australian health care and how best to raise and allocate scarce health care funds |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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Aged care |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
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Casemix |
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Costs |
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Federal issue |
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Government expenditure |
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Health care |
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Health insurance |
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Health services |
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Pharmaceuticals |
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Public health |
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State issue |
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Statistics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 273-303 |
| Subject |
Health services -- Economics -- Australia
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Medical economics -- Australia.
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Medical policy -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Medical policy -- Australia.
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Economics, Medical.
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Health Policy -- economics.
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Australia. |
| Author |
Mooney, Gavin H.
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Scotton, R. B.
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| LC no. |
99204552 |
| ISBN |
1864487496 |
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