IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM In Australia, responsibility for the mental health system is shared between the Commonwealth, or Australian government, state and territory governments and the private sector. Through the Australian…
TOWARDS EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY: THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH The World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘Health for All’ initiatives at Geneva in 1977, and the Health Targets and Implementation (Health for All)…
are no longer lower than the OECD average, and are increasing (AIHW 2006; The OECD Health Project 2004). Relative to the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), Canada and…
CHAPTER 2 Health policy as a process Heather Gardner Simon Barraclough The chapters in this book are about how policy in the field of health is developed and modified according…
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,…
