- Title
- Power, politics and health care
- Creator
- Belcher, Helen
- Relation
- Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology p. 367-391
- Relation
- http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/social_science/sociology/9780195562811
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- In 2000, the Senate Community Affairs References Committee observed that 'much of the debate and commentary (on Australian health policy) often seems to focus on the requirements of funding agencies such as governments and the needs of practitioners’ (2000, p. 3). Earlier, Sidney Sax had argued that the Australian health care system responds to vested interests and influences — ‘a strife of interests’ (Sax 1984) — many of which are seemingly unrelated to health (1990). Gwendolyn Gray extended this argument by claiming that ‘the competing ideological perspectives of Australia’s major parties are the principal reasons for the frequent and major changes in policy direction’ (1991, p. 184).
- Description
- 4th ed.
- Subject
- politics; Australian health care system; ideology; socialism; liberalism
- Identifier
- uon:8561
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918279
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780195562811
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