The Australian Health Care System

2. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-551745-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten

'The Australian Health Care System', second provides, a solid basis for understanding how the Australian health care system works. It highlights the conflicting values and complex social and political environment in which health policy must be made. It describes and evaluates the health care services using a systems approach.

The Australian Health Care System, 2e provides a solid basis for understanding how the Australian health care system operates. It highlights the tension that exists for health policy makers who must work within a complex social and political environment. It provides an in-depth examination of every part of the health care system: from the health workforce, government structures, and hospitals, to public, primary and community care. The book grounds the Australian health care services within a 'systems approach'. It is structured around the inputs and processes of the health system, and the resulting outputs and outcomes. The author describes how the provision of health care is linked to the financing of the workforce, capital and supplies as well as to the social and political support it must receive from the population.

1. Frameworks for Analysis; 2. The Australian Population and its Health; 3. Financing Health Care; 4. The Health Workforce; 5. Departmental and Intergovernmental Structures; 6. Hospitals; 7. Public Health; 8. Primary and Community Care; 9. Pharmaceuticals; 10. Policy Challenges for the Australian Health Care System; Appendices

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duckett, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Über Autor(innen)

(Faculty of Health Science, La Trobe University, Australia)