1st Edition

Health Policy in the Market State

Edited By Linda Hancock Copyright 1999
362 Pages
by Routledge

362 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Acknowledgements

Contributors

Tables

Abbreviations

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.