Analysing Health Policy: A Problem-Oriented Approach
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. - Takes a novel, problem-oriented approach to analysing health policy in Australia, which fits well with how policy is often created in practice. - Combines a conceptual framework with a rich selection of pertinent and topical case studies by prominent researchers and policy practitioners to put policy analysis in context and give insights from practical experience. - Topics have been chosen to appeal to students from a wide range of health backgrounds and include issues in nursing, management, rehabilitation, health information, and technology. - Includes questions for discussion in each chapter. - A companion Evolve website for Instructors contains chapter-by-chapter notes on review questions, suggestions for tutorial exercises, assignment topics and examination questions.
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Analysing Health Policy: A Problem-Oriented Approach
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. - Takes a novel, problem-oriented approach to analysing health policy in Australia, which fits well with how policy is often created in practice. - Combines a conceptual framework with a rich selection of pertinent and topical case studies by prominent researchers and policy practitioners to put policy analysis in context and give insights from practical experience. - Topics have been chosen to appeal to students from a wide range of health backgrounds and include issues in nursing, management, rehabilitation, health information, and technology. - Includes questions for discussion in each chapter. - A companion Evolve website for Instructors contains chapter-by-chapter notes on review questions, suggestions for tutorial exercises, assignment topics and examination questions.
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Analysing Health Policy: A Problem-Oriented Approach

Analysing Health Policy: A Problem-Oriented Approach

Analysing Health Policy: A Problem-Oriented Approach

Analysing Health Policy: A Problem-Oriented Approach

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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. - Takes a novel, problem-oriented approach to analysing health policy in Australia, which fits well with how policy is often created in practice. - Combines a conceptual framework with a rich selection of pertinent and topical case studies by prominent researchers and policy practitioners to put policy analysis in context and give insights from practical experience. - Topics have been chosen to appeal to students from a wide range of health backgrounds and include issues in nursing, management, rehabilitation, health information, and technology. - Includes questions for discussion in each chapter. - A companion Evolve website for Instructors contains chapter-by-chapter notes on review questions, suggestions for tutorial exercises, assignment topics and examination questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780729578431
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Australia
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

PrefaceList of abbreviationsI Health policy: an overview1.A problem-orientated approach to policy analysis, Simon Barraclough and Heather Gardner2.The context: the Australian health care system and major policy players, Heather Gardner and Simon Barraclough3.Structural and institutional problems and health policy in Australia, Andrew Podger4.Policy making as a process, Heather Gardner and Simon Barraclough5.Policy development and implementation, Iain Butterworth6.Health impact assessment and policy problems, Mary MahoneyII Governance of the health system7.Health policy making in a federal system of government, Hal Swerissen and Stephen Duckett8.Managerialism, the public service, and decision making in health, Brigid McCoppin9.Political, social and institutional factors in regulating complementary and alternative therapies, Vivian Lin10.Problems in health information policy, Kerin Robinson, Dianne Williamson and Heather GrainIII Values in health policy11.The problem of trust in public policy, Rae Walker12.The dilemma of public advocacy: the Maria Korp case, Julian Gardner13.Cultural diversity and the health care system, Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki14.The problem of risk in health care policy: the case of "Dr Death, Matthew JacksonIV Responding to perennial or emerging health policy problems15.Health policy for the aged, Carol Grbich16.Free trade and pharmaceutical drugs policy, Rebecca de Boer17.Mental health policy, Fiona Judd18.Accommodating new technology: robotics in prostate cancer surgery, Rosemary Watts, Marie Botti and Heather Gardner19.Rehabilitation policy and post-injury vocational achievement, Greg Murphy and Peter Foreman20.Professional substitution in the health workforce, Rosalie Boyce21.Risk management and food safety, Jim SmithIndex
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