Australia and New Zealand Health Policy
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Routine measurement of outcomes in Australia's public sector mental health services
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 2 - Trang 1-7 - 2005
This paper describes the Australian experience to date with a national 'roll out' of routine outcome measurement in public sector mental health services. Consultations were held with 123 stakeholders representing a range of roles. Australia has made an impressive start to nationally implementing routine outcome measurement in mental health services, although it still has a long way to go. All Stat......
When public action undermines public health: a critical examination of antifluoridationist literature
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 4 - Trang 1-13 - 2007
The addition of the chemical fluorine to the water supply, called water fluoridation, reduces dental caries by making teeth more resistant to demineralisation and more likely to remineralise when initially decayed. This process has been implemented in more than 30 countries around the world, is cost-effective and has been shown to be efficacious in preventing decay across a person's lifespan. Howe......
How to make the rhetoric of joined-up government really work
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 5 - Trang 1-8 - 2008
"Joined-up' government and 'whole-of-government' approaches have evolved over the past two decades from the simple 'one-stop-shop' concept to much more formal organisational structures mandated at the highest levels. In many cases, the participants in these developments were learning on the job, as they responded to community and political demands for better service delivery and more accountabilit......
Recent developments in targeting access to high cost medicines in Australia
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 2 - Trang 1-8 - 2005
In Australia, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) has developed a set of arrangements to control access to high-cost medicines to ensure their use is cost-effective. These medicines include the tumour necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors (TNFIs) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of this first phase of a qualitative study was to explore basic views on the restricted access to TNFI......
A systematic policy approach to changing the food system and physical activity environments to prevent obesity
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 5 - Trang 1-7 - 2008
As obesity prevention becomes an increasing health priority in many countries, including Australia and New Zealand, the challenge that governments are now facing is how to adopt a systematic policy approach to increase healthy eating and regular physical activity. This article sets out a structure for systematically identifying areas for obesity prevention policy action across the food system and ......
Using deliberative techniques to engage the community in policy development
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 5 - Trang 1-9 - 2008
This paper examines work in deliberative approaches to community engagement used in Western Australia by the Department of Planning and Infrastructure and other planning and infrastructure agencies between 2001 and 2005, and considers whether the techniques could be applied to the development of health policy in Australia. Deliberative processes were used in WA to address specific planning and inf......
Educating public health physicians for the future: a current perspective from Aotearoa New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 1-6 - 2009
Persisting, and in some cases widening, inequalities in health within and between countries present significant challenges to the focus and practice of contemporary public health, and by association, to public health education. As public health physicians and academic educators of medically- and non-medically trained public health practitioners, we call for a radical re-think of current approaches......
Funding illness prevention and health promotion in Australia: a way forward
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 1-4 - 2009
Unlike pharmaceuticals and private medical services there is no single source of funding for illness prevention and health promotion and no systematic process for setting priorities in public health. There is a need to improve the efficiency of access to health funding across prevention and treatment. We discuss a number of reforms to existing funding arrangements including the creation of a natio......
Issues facing the future health care workforce: the importance of demand modelling
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 1-8 - 2009
This article examines issues facing the future health care workforce in Australia in light of factors such as population ageing. It has been argued that population ageing in Australia is affecting the supply of health care professionals as the health workforce ages and at the same time increasing the demand for health care services and the health care workforce. However, the picture is not that si......
Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 1-8 - 2009
In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Traditionally, public health education has been at the postgraduate level; however, over the past decade an upsurge in the growth of undergraduate public health degrees has taken place. This article e......
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