Historical publications
Health Financing in Australia: The Objectives and Players. Health Financing Series Volume 1.
This paper begins with an examination of the role of government in health systems and the rationale for that involvement. It then examines the objectives of the health system, looking in more detail at the four aspects of good health, low cost, equity and satisfaction, the relationships between them and the trade-offs that arise. The paper then discusses the different perspectives and competing preferences of various stakeholders. The paper closes by noting that while there may be broad acknowledgment of the value of the four objective mentioned above, conflicting preferences make it impossible to satisfy all stakeholders in the process of reform.
In this section:
- Occasional papers series
- Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements (PHOFAs)
- Regulatory Plan 2007-08
- Regulatory Plan 2008-09
- Regulatory Plan 2006-07
- PHERP Review Reports
- A National Aboriginal Health Strategy 1989
- 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies and Strategic Research
- 2006 Aged Care Homes Survey
- 2006 – 2007 Jurisdictional Summary Report against the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (NSFATSIH)
- A Healthy Start for 0-5 Year Olds. Occasional Papers Series Number 3
- A Manual to guide the development of local evaluation plans: evaluating initiatives within the LIFE framework using a program logic approach
- A National Aboriginal Health Strategy: An Evaluation 1994
- A Review of Law Enforcement and Other Criminal Justice Attitudes, Policies and Practices Regarding Cannabis and Cannabis Laws in South Australia: Monograph no. 38
- A Review of the Current Role of Enrolled Nurses in the Aged Care Sector: Future Directions
- A Review of the Current Role of Enrolled Nurses in the Aged Care Sector: Future Directions
- A Study into the Information Needs and Perceptions of Older Australians Concerning Falls and their Prevention
- Achievements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Summary Report
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2003 - 2004
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2004-2005
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2006-2007
- Aged Care Assessment Program National Data Repository
- Aged Care Assessment Program, National Minimum Data Set Annual Reports
- Aged Care Assessment Program, National Minimum Data Set Annual Reports
- Ageing and Aged Care in Australia
- Ageing and suicide
- Ageing gracefully:an overview of the economic implications of Australia’s ageing population profile. Occasional Papers New Series Number 10
- Ageing in Place
- Alcohol and other drugs: a handbook for health professionals
- Alcohol consumption patterns among Australian 15-17 year olds from 2000 to 2004
- Alerting the community to the link between illicit drugs and mental illness: developmental research
- Amphetamines and other psychostimulants - a guide to the management of users
- An analysis of research on preventing falls and falls injury in older people: Community, residential care and hospital settings (2004 update)
- An Analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of north Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape
- An Overview of Health Status, Health Care and Public Health in Australia. Occasional Papers Series Number 5.
- Anorexia nervosa: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Appendix 2 : Interpretations of the MAIF Agreement by the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula
- Australian National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009: meeting the challenges of the next five years
- Australian secondary students' use of alcohol in 1999: Monograph no. 45
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1996: Monograph no. 33
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1999: Monograph no. 46
- Bipolar disorder: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Building on success 1: a review of gay and other homosexually active men's HIV/AIDS education in Australia
- Building on success 2: towards a national strategy for HIV/AIDS health promotion for gay and other homosexually active men
- Building on success 3: the Commonwealth Government response to towards national strategy for HIV/AIDS health promotion for gay and other homosexually active men
- Cannabis offences under the cannabis expiation notice scheme in South Australia: Monograph no. 35
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 1999-2000
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 2000-2001
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 2001-2002
- Clients of treatment service agencies: May 2001 census findings: Monograph no. 47
- COAG mental health early intervention measure - early childhood component: study to scope potential service delivery
- Compression of Morbidity Workshop Papers. Occasional Papers Series Number 4.
- Consultation paper on the national mental health plan 2003-2008
- Consumer Measurement Systems and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Consumer Perceptions of Nursing and Nurses in General Practice
- Coordinated Care - Evaluation Report of 2nd Round Trials
- Coping with depression: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Costs of psychosis in urban Australia
- Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1998-9: Monograph no. 49
- Deep vein thrombosis and air travel
- Disability, homelessness and social relationships among people living with psychosis in Australia
- Discussion Document Towards a Fourth National HIV/AIDS Strategy April 1999
- Djirruwang Program
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2002-2003 Key results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2003-2004 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2004-2005 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2005-2006 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2006-2007 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2007-2008 Key Results
- Drug driving among police detainees in three states of Australia: Monograph no. 50
- Drug harm minimisation education for police in Australia: Monograph no. 41
- Drug law enforcement: its effect on treatment experience and injection practices: Monograph no. 42
- Effects of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme on levels and patterns of cannabis use in South Australia: evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys 1985-1995: Monograph no. 37
- Electronic Information Access Report
- Employment and psychosis
- Evaluating treatments for alcohol and other drugs: Monograph no. 14
- Evaluation of the 2001 Nursing in General Practice Initiative
- Evaluation of the National Donovonosis Eradication Project 2001-2004
- Evaluation of the regionalisation of general practice vocational training
- Evaluation Report Phases 1 and 2 National Continence Management Strategy
- Evaluation: a guide for good practice
- Expanding settings for medical specialist training
- Falls prevention activities for older people: a national stocktake
- Family and Community Services: When is Competition the Answer? Occasional Papers Series Number 2
- Far west area health service integrated mental health project: project response to evaluation
- Far west mental health integration project evaluation report
- First Planning Forum of the National Advisory Council for Suicide Prevention (The)
- Future directions for alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia: Monograph no. 17
- Gambling: is it a health hazard? Occasional Papers New Series Number 2
- Government response to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Indigenous health: 'Health is life'
- Guidelines for the Divisions Network Nursing in General Practice Program
- Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Influenza Outbreaks in Residential Care Facilities for Public Health Units in Australia
- Guidelines for the prevention and control of influenza outbreaks in residential care facilities for Public Health Units in Australia
- HACC MDS Annual Bulletin 2007-2008
- Hanging from a String in the Wind: Development of a National Framework for Mentoring for Nurses in General Practice
- Health and Aged Care Portfolio submission to the Commonwealth Grants Commission's inquiry into Indigenous funding (June 2000)
- Health and Medical Research Strategic Review - The Virtuous Cycle - Working together for health and medical research (Wills Report)
- Health Expenditure: Its Management and Sources. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 3
- Health Financing and Population Health. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 7
- Health Financing in Australia: The Objectives and Players. Health Financing Series Volume 1.
- Health policy and inequality. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 5
- Health Professional Education and Awareness Raising
- Health services in the city and the bush: measures of access and use derived from linked administrative data. Occasional Papers New Series Number 13
- Healthy for Life: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Maternal Health Exemplar Site Initiative: Site Reports 2005
- Hepatitis C: Information for all Australians
- Highlights of Government Support for Diabetes 1999
- Hospital casemix data and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 3
- How the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness: the case studies
- Illawarra mental health integration project: final evaluation report
- Incidence of incontinence as a factor in admission to aged care homes: executive summary.
- Infringement versus conviction: the social impact of a minor cannabis offence under a civil penalties system and strict prohibition in two Australian states: Monograph no. 36
- Innovative grants program: project summaries
- Insights into the utilisation of health services in Australia based on linked administrative data. Occasional Papers New Series Number 9
- Inspiring, not retiring
- International approaches to funding health care. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 2
- International mid-term review of the second national mental health plan for Australia
- Interpretations of the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula on the MAIF Agreement
- Investment Review of Health and Medical Research
- Learning Together: Education and Training Partnerships in Mental Health
- Legislative options for cannabis use in Australia: Monograph no. 26
- Lifescripts practice manual: supporting lifestyle risk factor management in general practice
- Local area information systems for mental health services: general principles and guidelines
- MAIF Guidelines - Marketing Of Infant Formulas Via Electronic Media
- Marijuana in Australia: patterns and attitudes: Monograph no. 31
- Measuring Patient Satisfaction with Incontinence Treatment - Report
- Measuring Remoteness: Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) Revised Edition. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 14
- Mental Health Information Development: National Information Priorities and Strategies under the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998–2003
- Mental health: a report focusing on depression
- Mental health: a report focusing on depression: summary
- Mental health: statement of rights and responsibilities (1991)
- Mentoring Fact Sheets for Nursing in General Practice
- Models of intervention and care for psychostimulant users: Monograph no. 32
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Health Promotion Report
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan
- National action plan for depression
- National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000
- National buprenorphine policy
- National Comorbidity Project
- National Drug Strategic Framework 1998-99 to 2002-03: building partnerships
- National evaluation of the Sharing Health Care Initiative demonstration projects
- National health policy on tobacco in Australia and examples of strategies for implementation
- National Health Priority Areas Report: Diabetes mellitus 1998
- National Hepatitis C Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan
- National HIV/AIDS Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan
- National leadership through performance assessment. Occasional Papers Series Number 1
- National Mental Health Information Priorities Workshop: Sydney 26-27 February 2004: Proceedings
- National Mental Health Plan: April 1992
- National Mental Health Report 2002: Seventh Report. Changes in Australia's Mental Health Services under the First Two Years of the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998-2000
- National Mental Health Report 2004: Eighth Report - Summary of changes in Australia's Mental Health Services under the National Mental Health Strategy 1993-2002
- National policy on methadone treatment
- National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce Bulletin No. 1
- National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy: Implementations Plan
- National standards for mental health services
- National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Context July 2003
- National Strategy for an Ageing Australia: World Class Discussion Paper
- National strategy for heart, stroke and vascular health in Australia
- National Tobacco Strategy 1999 to 2002-03: a framework for action
- Nursing in General Practice Training and Support Workshop 23 August 2005: Summary report
- Panic disorder and agoraphobia: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Partnerships in practice: national HIV/AIDS strategy 1996-97 to 1998-99: a strategy framed in the context of sexual health and related communicable diseases
- Patterns of drug use in Australia, 1985-95
- People Living with Psychotic Illness: An Australian Study 1997–98
- People living with psychotic illness: An Australian study 1997–98: An overview
- Planning Guidelines for National Demonstration Projects in Integrated Mental Health Care
- Principles for the consideration of interactions with health care professionals for the purpose of interpreting the MAIF Agreement
- Private Health Insurance. Occasional Paper New Series Number 4
- Private Sector Outreach Services - Review of Private Sector Outreach Services Legislation
- Proceedings of expert workshop on the induction and stabilisation of patients onto methadone: Monograph no. 39
- Progress of the National Drug Strategy: key national indicators
- Project to evaluate the Service Development and Reporting Framework Trial
- Projected costs of fall related injury to older persons due to demographic change in Australia: report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Canberra: New Directions in Health and Safety.
- Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people discussion paper: key principles and directions
- Promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental health: a monograph
- Public and Private - In Partnership for Ausralia's Health. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 4
- Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project (The): Final Evaluation Report
- Public discussion paper - Adoption of the Globally Harmonised System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals in Respect to Domestic and Consumer Chemicals Including Pesticides
- Public opinion towards drug policies in Australia, 1985-95
- Public perceptions of the health and psychological consequences of cannabis use: Monograph no. 29
- Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Residential Aged Care: Final Report and Commonwealth Response
- Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Residential Aged Care: Final Report and Commonwealth Response
- Reforming the Australian health care system: the role of government. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 1
- Report of the Lessons Learned from Accreditation: Working Group of the National Aged Care Forum
- Report on the Feasibility of Developing a Standards Rating System for all Australian Government Subsidised Aged Care Homes
- Report summary: Consumer Perceptions of Nursing and Nurses in General Practice
- Research and consultation among young people on mental health issues: Final report
- Responding to the mental health needs of young people in Australia: discussion paper: principles and strategies
- Response to the Final Evaluation Report of the Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project
- Results of Research into the Residential Aged Care Industry's Use of Computers and the Internet
- Returns on Investment in Public Health: An epidemiological and economic analysis
- Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders, 2nd edition: Monograph no. 48
- Review of the Impact of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974 on the Recruitment and Retention of Medical Practitioners in Rural and Regional Australia
- Schizophrenia: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Second National Mental Health Plan
- Seeking residents' views in residential aged care
- Self-harm: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Sexual Health Promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People – A community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions
- Some characteristics of hospital admissions and discharges: older Australians. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 8
- Stigma and discrimination
- Still Inspiring
- Summary of Outcomes of the National Workshop on practice nursing in Australian General Practice
- Technology, Health and Health Care. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 5
- The Ageing Australian Population and Future Health Costs: 1996-2051. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 7
- The Australian Government Response to the 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies
- The Australian medical workforce. Occasional Papers New Series Number 12
- The Commonwealth Government Response to the Report of the Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance (JETACAR)
- The Development and Implementation of the "Plan A Safe Strategy" Drink Driving Prevention Program: Monograph no. 13
- The Effectiveness of Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems - an Overview: Monograph no. 11
- The Guide: Implementing Occupational Health and Safety in Residential Aged Care
- The Health and Psychological Effects of Cannabis Use, 2nd edition: Monograph no. 44
- The National Drug Strategy: mapping the future
- The National Hepatitis C Strategy 2005-2008
- The National Slips and Falls Prevention Project
- The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Framework for action by Governments 2003
- The Quality of Australian Healthcare: Current Issues and Future Directions. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 6
- The Role of Police in the Diversion of Minor Alcohol and Drug Related Offenders: Monograph no. 40
- The Social Costs of Drug Abuse in Australia in 1988 and 1992: Monograph no. 30
- The Social Impacts of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South Australia: Monograph no. 34
- The Use of Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Animals and Humans
- The Use of Hospitals by Older People: a Casemix Analysis. Occasional Papers New Series Number 11
- Toward a national approach to information sharing in mental health crisis situations
- Trends in hospital activity: Australia 1991–92 to 2000–01. Occasional Papers: New Series No.15
- Use of psychopharmacological and other treatments by persons with psychosis (The)
- Using Mathematical Models to Assess Responses to an Outbreak of an Emerged Viral Respiratory Disease
- Valuing the past ... investing in the future- Evaluation of the National HIV /AIDS Strategy 1993-94 to 1995-96
- Video conferencing project evaluation
- Ways forward: national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health policy
- Medicare Statistics - September Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - December Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - September Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - December Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2005-06
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2004-05
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2003-04
- Australian National Diabetes Information Audit & Benchmarking (ANDIAB) 2002
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