Lamson Library: SW 3500: Health & Society: Health Care Around the World

Health Care Systems Around the World

Health Care Systems Around the World by Sarah E. Boslaugh
ISBN: 1452203121
Publication Date: 2013-08-23
Provides basic information about health care organization and outcomes, organized into 10 categories for 193 countries: emergency health services, insurance, costs of hospitalization, access to health care, cost of drugs, health care facilities, major health issues, health care personnel, government role in health care, and public health programs.

Australia Health Care

Health Care in Australia -- Wikipedia
Health care in Australia is provided by both private and government institutions. The Minister for Health and Ageing, currently Peter Dutton, administers national health policy, elements of which (such as the operation of hospitals) are overseen by individual states.
Medicare Australia
HealthDirect Australia
Ensuring all Australians have access to the right advice on the appropriate care for their health issue when and where they need it.

Healthdirect Australia was established by the Council of Australian Governments with the purpose of providing all Australians with access to trusted professional health information without time or geographic restrictions.

No matter where people live, what time of the day or night, they can access trusted advice on the most appropriate care for their health issue.

Australian Health Care: Articles

Health Reform: a time of opportunity and challenge
The article focuses on the observations of Australian nursing leaders on governmental health reforms. Australian Nursing Federation Federal Secretary Lee Thomas mentions nurses' involvement in the governance of new structures. Former Chair of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance Fiona Armstrong mentions the lack of focus on health care equality. Prue Power, executive director of the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, discusses the lack of a plan to evaluate reforms. INSET: THE PLAN.
Is inequity undermining Australia's ‘universal’ health care system? Socio-economic inequalities in the use of specialist medical and non-medical ambulatory health care.
Objectives: To quantify need-adjusted socio-economic inequalities in medical and non-medical ambulatory health care in Australia and to examine the effects of specific interventions, namely concession cards and private health insurance (PHI), on equity. Methods: We used data from a 2004 survey of 10,905 Australian women aged 53 to 58 years. We modelled the association between socio-economic status and health service use — GPs, specialists, hospital doctors, allied and alternative health practitioners, and dentists — adjusting for health status and other confounding variables.
A brief history of 'Health reform' in Australia, 2007-2009.
[opening paragraph] "In the lead-up to the 2007 Federal Election, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd made much of his Party’s intention to reform Australia’s health system, with explicit reference to addressing hospital waiting lists, ‘ending the blame game’ and expanding preventive health care."