Health Care Practice and Policy in Australia explores and analyses the challenges faced by contemporary Australian health professionals, proposes principles for contemporary health care practice, and provides examples of innovations in practice. It is an applied textbook which extends students analytical skills and understanding of healthcare policy in Australia, around the foundational links between policy and effective healthcare practice. It introduces some of the keyperspectives emerging nationally and internationally in relation to health and illness, policy approaches and practice frameworks. Health Care Practice and Policy in Australia helps students to understand the complexities of the current healthcare policy agenda and prepares them for innovative practice in anenvironment which is redefining the nature and location of healthcare service delivery.
Introduction; PART I: THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH; The Concept of Health; Contemporary Frameworks of Health Care; PART II: THE HEALTH CARE CONTEXT IN AUTRALIA; The Health Care System in Australia; Health Workforce; Specialist Areas of Health Service Provision; PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY POLICY-PRACTICE INTERFACE; Health Care Policy; Contemporary Health Care Practice; PART IV: INNOVATIONS IN PRACTICE; Collaborative Health Care Practice within the Rural Context; Continuity and Change in Rehabilitation: The Shift Towards Community Based Services; Improving Practice by Respecting Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Encouraging Principles of Consumer Participation and Partnership; Reducing Preventable Health Disadvantage for People with Disabilities through Physical Activomotion; The Frontier of Information Technology in Health; Economic Evaluations and Decision Making in Health Care; References; Index;
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