Understanding the Australian Health Care System

by Eileen Willis MEd, PhD, Trudy Rudge RN, PhD, BA(Hons.), Louise Reynolds (Editor)

Overview

A updated overview of Australia’s health care system, addressing its core features, concepts and issues

Understanding the Australian Health Care System, 2^nd edition is an excellent university book for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.

Published four years after the original, this second edition has been fully revised to reflect major Australian health care reform. Its fully up-to-date content includes current governmental and legislative changes impacting Australia’s health care system.

Other topics addressed include quality and safety within the system, health insurance in Australia – both public and private – the PBS and integrated medicine.

This outstanding medical book delves deeply into the system’s theoretical framework, structure and organisation and includes comparisons with the US and UK health care systems.

This new edition of Understanding the Australian Health Care System will be a valuable reference for those studying health science, health promotion, sports and exercise science, physiotherapy, human services, nursing, midwifery, medicine, paramedicine, health system management, medical radiations science and health informatics.

• Online student and instructor resources
• Stronger focus on social determinants throughout text
• Addresses a wide range of health professions – now including disability professionals and social workers
• Current theoretical framework for healthcare reform (Tuohy 2009)
• Stronger focus on social determinants throughout text
• Addresses current position on national registration

• Features an excellent ancillary package on Elsevier’s Evolve platform
• Includes three new chapters addressing: disability professionals; quality and safety; and social work
• Reflects major health care reform in Australia (COAG 2009)
• Discusses current theoretical framework for healthcare reform (Tuohy 2009)
• New contributors

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780729597265
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	10/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	531
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Eileen Willis, MEd, PhD; Associate Professor, Social Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide

Louise Reynolds BHSc (PHC), GradCertEdu (Higher Education) PhD, FACAP; Lecturer, Social Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide

Helen Keleher, BA, MA, PhD, FPHAA; Professor and Head, Department of Health Social Science, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Table of Contents

Section One: System Overview
Section Two: Health Professionals

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From the Publisher

An essential guide to the complexities of health care in Australia