international environmental health initiatives designed for developing country contexts provide some pointers to addressing the problems of unsanitary living environments and poor hygiene in remote Australian Indigenous communities. ABORIGINAL AND…
IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM At the start of the 1980s the economic vitality of the state of Victoria was compromised by a range of problems associated with the rising cost of…
This chapter reviews the background to recent policy developments in relation to the registration of Chinese medicine, naturopathy and western herbal medicine (WHM) and discusses what factors have shaped policy…
to the directions set by the government of the day’, but beyond that, it should be ‘innovative and imaginative’. The manner of giving advice should be ‘robust’, as secretaries must…
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL FOOD STANDARDS Within Australia’s federal system, the regulation of food standards has been the responsibility of the states and territories. This resulted in significant differences between…
A PERENNIAL AND AN EMERGING PROBLEM The introduction of any new technology into hospitals is a perennial problem, as it is in institutions generally. However, when looking at a specific,…
Pharmacists will no longer be able to keep the difference between the price paid by the government for generic drugs and the lower price charged by the manufacturer. But they…
IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM AND THE VARIABILITY OF STATISTICS In 2006 the proportion of the population made up of those 65 years and over was just over 13%. Notwithstanding flood, fire,…
IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM Policy problems addressed through federal–state relations in health usually centre on ‘fiscal squabbles’, ‘waiting’ and ‘waste’. ‘Fiscal squabbles’ break out between different levels of government when one…
IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM For this chapter, a policy problem is taken to be one that receives government’s attention and leads to responses like advocacy, reform, funding, or regulation.2 In the…
