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Autore: |
Boxall Anne-Marie
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Titolo: |
Making medicare [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of universal health care in Australia / / Anne-Marie Boxall and James A. Gillespie
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Pubblicazione: | Sydney, : NewSouth, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.10994 |
Soggetto topico: | Medical policy - Australia - History |
Public health - Australia - History | |
Altri autori: |
GillespieJames A
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover ; About the Authors ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents; Foreword; Making Medicare: A Timeline; Introduction: Health Care and History; 1. Health Reform Efforts To The 1950s; 2. Whitlam and Health System Reform, 1960-74; 3. Making Medibank A Reality, 1974-75; 4. Organised Medicine versus Medibank; 5. Fraser's Health System Reforms, 1976-81; 6. Medibank Weighed In The Balance, 1976-78; 7. Why Fraser Abolished Medibank; 8. Hawke Brings Medicare Into Being; 9. The Politics of Medicare, 1984-96; 10. John Howard, Medicare's Greatest Friend?; 11. Current Issues, Future Challenges; Notes |
ReferencesAcknowledgments; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | <P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that is often taken for granted. But the road there wasn't easy. <I>Making Medicare</I> is a comprehensive account of Australia's long, tortuous, and unconventional path toward universal health care-as it was established, abolished, and introduced again-and of the reforms that brought it into being. With its detailed investigation of the policy debates that have determined the shape of health care in Australia, this book is the most thorough survey of Medicare's history publ |
Titolo autorizzato: | Making medicare ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-74224-143-3 |
1-74224-657-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809504803321 |
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