Screen LibraryAnalysing health policy：a problem-oriented approach
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Marrickville, N.S.W. |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 298 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780729538435 (pbk.) 0729538435 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | R199 |
| CLC: |
R199.611-01 R199.611 |
| Call Number: | R199.611/A532 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. "Analysing Health Policy explores Australian health policy using 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. Case studies then explore developments in health policy in both 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. Section 1 Health policy: an overview 1 A problem-oriented approach to health policy analysis 2 Health policy as a process 3 Institutional problems and health policy 4 Population health, the health system and policy 5 Health Impact Assessment in a policy context Section 2 Governance of the health system 6 Federalism and health 7 The public service and health 8 Municipal public health planning policy in Victoria 9 The health workforce: innovation, substitution and reform 10 Regulating complementary and alternative medicine practitioners Section 3 Values in health policy 11 Conflicting values in health information policy 12 The problem of trust in health policy 13 Dilemmas in end-of-life care: the Maria Korp case 14 The problem of failing to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare 15 Government, medical error, and problem definition Section 4 Responding to perennial or emerging health policy problems 16 The ageing population: in search of a polic y! 17 Reform of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme 18 Rethinking policy in mental health 19 Accommodating new technology: robotics in prostate cancer surgery 20 Implementing post-injury rehabilitation policy 21 Achieving uniformity in food hygiene regulation 22 Improving hygiene and children's health in remote Indigenous communities"--Provided by publisher. |