At a time of increasing demands on budgets, governments around the world are seeking to reduce health expenditure and introduce market-oriented reforms to the health sector. This is leading to profound shifts in the relationship between the state and the individual, as policy makers dismantle the welfare state and move towards a user-pays sytem.
Health Policy in the Market State offers an overview of health policy in Australia, locating it within the broader context of power and interests analysis and shifts in government policy and public sector restructuring. It outlines the key issues in current health policy and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of specific policies and programs.
Contributors include Ian Anderson and Maggie Brady, Mary Draper, Stephen Duckett, Liz Eckerman, Sophie Hill, Sharon Moore, Michael Muetzelfeldt, Janine Smith and Beth Wilson.
Health Policy in the Market State is a valuable overview for students, as well as a comprehensive reference for health professionals and policy-makers.
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1 Rights and markets - Linda Hancock
I ANALYSING HEALTH POLICY
2 Policy, power and interests - Linda Hancock
3 Health, public sector restructuring and the Market State - Linda Hancock
II FINANCING HEALTH
4 Commonwealth/State relations in health - Stephen Duckett
5 Health care funding and rationing health care - Linda Hancock/Paul Mackey
6 Consumer payments for health care - Sophie Hill
III MARKET STATE REFORM AGENDAS
7 Casemix: financing hospital services - Mary Draper
8 Contracting out in the health sector - Michael Muetzelfeldt
9 Shifts in community health care - Janine Smith
IV CATERING FOR THE DIVERSITY OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS AND INTERESTS
10 Performance indicators for Aboriginal health services - Ian Anderson/Maggie Brady
11 Women's health in a changing state - Philomena Horsley/ Sonya Tremellen/Linda Hancock
12 Health indicators for diversity - Liz Eckerman
13 Shifts in me
Biography
Linda Hancock teaches in the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne.
