1 The health policy scene
In rude health?; The health enlightenment; The Medicare era;
Reforming the future
2 What is health?
The nature of health; Health disciplines; Population health and
politics
3. Health policy
State power and public policy; Policy and research; Public finance
for health;
The assemblage of the health system
4 Governing doctors
Governing pastoral care in the liberal state; Medical licensing;
General practice incentives; Neoliberalism in GP financing;
Professional freedom and the Practice Incentives Program
5. Public hospitals and public health
The origins of modern clinical medicine; The origins of public
health; Public health and public hospitals; The transformation in
hospital funding
6. The making of Medicare
The nationalisation of medical insurance; Governing health
insurance in the Medicare era; Clinical freedom and the
introduction of Medicare
7. Quality and
Associate Professor Paul Dugdale BMBS, MA, MPH, PhD, FAFPHM has twenty years experience in health policy. He is Director of the ANU Centre for Health Stewardship and a former Chief Health Officer of the ACT.
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