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A Problem-Oriented Approach
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By
Simon Barraclough, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Heather Gardner, MA, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This introductory text explores Australian
health policy through a novel, problem-orientated approach. It shows the problem-solving techniques that are used when developing policy
and demonstrates the skills of analysis and decision making. Introductory chapters explain the problem-orientated approach to health
policy development and introduce the policy making process. These are followed by case studies that explore developments in Australian
health policy in priority and topical areas. Chapters illustrate how policy-makers respond to perennial and emerging policy problems
and demonstrate problem-solving approaches to the conception, development and implementation of health policy. Of particular concern
are areas which are in transition or are highly contested. A team of prominent and expert contributors gives an overview of key issues,
analyse the policy responses that have occurred and propose directions for the future. Topics covered span governance, values and specific
service areas within major established areas of health policy of national concern as well as emerging problems and developments that
have occurred in response to well-known cases.
Audience
Undergraduate and post-graduate students undertaking units in health policy, particularly within public health, health services management, and health promotion degrees.
Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
I Health policy: an overview
1. A problem-orientated approach to policy
analysis, Simon Barraclough and Heather Gardner
2. The context: the Australian health care system and major policy players, Heather
Gardner and Simon Barraclough
3. Structural and institutional problems and health policy in Australia, Andrew Podger
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Policy making as a process, Heather Gardner and Simon Barraclough
5. Policy development and implementation, Iain Butterworth
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Health impact assessment and policy problems, Mary Mahoney
II Governance of the health system
7. Health
policy making in a federal system of government, Hal Swerissen and Stephen Duckett
8. Managerialism, the public service, and decision
making in health, Brigid McCoppin
9. Political, social and institutional factors in regulating complementary and alternative therapies,
Vivian Lin
10. Problems in health information policy, Kerin Robinson, Dianne Williamson and Heather Grain
III Values
in health policy
11. The problem of trust in public policy, Rae Walker
12. The dilemma of public advocacy: the
Maria Korp case, Julian Gardner
13. Cultural diversity and the health care system, Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki
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The problem of risk in health care policy: the case of ?Dr Death?, Matthew Jackson
IV Responding to perennial or emerging
health policy problems
15. Health policy for the aged, Carol Grbich
16. Free trade and pharmaceutical drugs policy,
Rebecca de Boer
17. Mental health policy, Fiona Judd
18. Accommodating new technology: robotics in prostate cancer surgery,
Rosemary Watts, Marie Botti and Heather Gardner
19. Rehabilitation policy and post-injury vocational achievement, Greg Murphy
and Peter Foreman
20. Professional substitution in the health workforce, Rosalie Boyce
21. Risk management and food safety,
Jim Smith
Index
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Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7295-3843-5
ISBN-10: 0-7295-3843-5
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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