Full Description
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 key perspectives 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 an environment which is redefining the nature and location of healthcare service delivery.
Contents
ContentsIntroduction: Sandra Taylor, Michele Foster and Jennifer Fleming PART 1: HEALTH CARE PRACTICE: POLICY AND CONTEXT Chapter 1: The concept of health - Sandra Taylor Chapter 2: Contemporary frameworks of health care - Sandra Taylor Chapter 3: The Australian health care context - Michele Foster and Jennifer Fleming Chapter 4: Specialist areas of health care provision - Michele Foster Chapter 5: The health workforce - Jennifer Fleming Chapter 6: Health care policy - Michele Foster and Jennifer Fleming Chapter 7: Contemporary health care practice - Jennifer Fleming, Michele Foster and Sandra Taylor PART 2: INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH CARE PRACTICE Chapter 8: Collaborative Health Care Practice within the Rural Context - Margaret Alston and Elaine Dietsch Chapter 9: Continuity and Change in Rehabilitation: The Shift Towards Community Based Services - Emmah Doig and Pim Kuipers Chapter 10: Improving Practice by Respecting Indigenous Ways of Knowing - Elizabeth Kendall, Judith Milliken, Leda Barnet and Catherine Marshall Chapter 11: Encouraging Principles of Consumer Participation and Partnership - Robert Bland and Miranda Epstein Chapter 12: Reducing Preventable Health Disadvantage for People with Disabilities through Physical Activity Promotion - Sean Tweedy Chapter 13: The Frontier of Information Technology in Health - Tammy Hoffman, Kryss McKenna and Sally Bennett Chapter 14: Economic Evaluations and Decision Making in Health Care - Terry Haines Introduction References Index
