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.
