Australian health services: too complex to navigate (original) (raw)
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2019
The Mitchell Institute's mission is to strengthen the relationship between evidence and policy, and, to improve equity of opportunity and success in both health and education. The Australian Health Policy Collaboration (AHPC) is a health policy think within the Mitchell Institute. We have built a collaborative approach with Australian health experts, academics, researchers and policymakers to translate the best evidence into effective policy development and implementation centred on the current and future impacts of chronic diseases in Australia.
The AHA?s ideas on health policies for Australia
Australian Health Review, 1998
In late 1997 the Australian Healthcare Association (AHA) began a process ofreviewing and updating its ideas on health care in Australia. One importantactivity comprised a strategic planning workshop in February 1998, which wasattended by members of the National Council. Experts from government andother health associations also participated, and their support was greatlyappreciated.Preliminary ideas arising from the deliberations are summarised in a discussionpaper which has been widely distributed for comment (AHA 1998). Thefollowing is a condensed version, although the scope is hardly affected.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report, 2002
This overview has described the AIHW role in Australia's health information which is highly relevant to communicable disease surveillance. The AIHW provides statistics and information on the nation's health and welfare within local, state, national and international settings. It has established an expertise in the collection, standards and dissemination of information. Given these qualities, the AIHW has a wealth of expertise and welcomes the use of its publications and data sources. Details of the Institute's work can be found on its website (www.aihw.gov.au).
Challenges in health and health care for Australia
The Medical journal of Australia, 2007
The next Australian Government will confront major challenges in the funding and delivery of health care. These challenges derive from: Changes in demography and disease patterns as the population ages, and the burden of chronic illness grows; Increasing costs of medical advances and the need to ensure that there are comprehensive, efficient and transparent processes for assessing health technologies; Problems with health workforce supply and distribution; Persistent concerns about the quality and safety of health services; Uncertainty about how best to balance public and private sectors in the provision and funding of health services; Recognition that we must invest more in the health of our children; The role of urban planning in creating healthy and sustainable communities; and Understanding that achieving equity in health, especially for Indigenous Australians, requires more than just providing health care services. The search for effective and lasting solutions will require a c...
Intersectoral action on SDH and equity in Australian health policy
Health promotion international, 2016
Intersectoral action between public agencies across policy sectors, and between levels of government, is seen as essential for effective action by governments to address social determinants of health (SDH) and to reduce health inequities. The health sector has been identified as having a crucial stewardship role, to engage other policy sectors in action to address the impacts of their policies on health. This article reports on research to investigate intersectoral action on SDH and health inequities in Australian health policy. We gathered and individually analysed 266 policy documents, being all of the published, strategic health policies of the national Australian government and eight State/Territory governments, current at the time of sampling in late 2012-early 2013. Our analysis showed that strategies for intersectoral action were common in Australian health policy, but predominantly concerned with extending access to individualized medical or behavioural interventions to clie...
Getting Australia’s Health on Track
2016
This complementary suite of priority policy actions will help get Australia on track to reach the 2025 targets and significantly reduce preventable illness and disability in the population. The priority policy actions were developed by Australia's leading chronic disease scientists, researchers and clinicians. Designed to tackle shared risk factors for chronic disease, these actions will drive change where it is needed most.
Health in All Policies: evaluating the South Australian approach to intersectoral action for health
H ealth in All Policies (HiAP) traces its roots to public health's longstanding concern with health determinants while incorporating 21 st century understandings of health governance. 1 Calls for intersectoral action to achieve healthy public policy can be tracked from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in 1986 and the Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy Public Policy in 1988, to the 2006 European Union promotion of HiAP. In South Australia (SA) there has been resurgence of interest and activity around integrated policy-making. 2 Most recently, Adelaide hosted an international meeting on HiAP that resulted in the Adelaide Statement on Health in All Policies. 3 Although there is consensus about the need for intersectoral approaches, previous attempts to implement this type of intervention have often failed. 4 Nevertheless, public health has continued to take on the challenge to "establish cooperation between different sectors in society to make health an issue on the agenda of all society sectors". 5 The challenges of 21 st century societies have added impetus to efforts to address health issues through policy innovations. New policy approaches based on an understanding that "health is everywhere" are required. 6 A HiAP approach is characterized by "common goals, integrated responses and increased accountability across government departments". 3 It moves beyond the boundaries of the health sector to promote "effective and systematic action for the improvement of population health, using genuinely all available measures in all policy fields". 7 INTERVENTION In 2008, the SA Government committed itself to a HiAP approach to building healthy public policy. Its introduction was promoted by Professor Ilona Kickbusch during her term as Adelaide Thinker in Residence. 8 An important factor in the adoption of HiAP was the demonstration of its applicability to a key policy driver, South Australia's Strategic Plan (SASP). 9 SASP sets targets across portfolios and makes chief executives accountable to the Premier for their achievement. This is monitored through a subgroup of Cabinet, the Executive Committee of Cabinet Chief Executives Group (ExComm CEG). Linking HiAP with SASP highlighted the interconnections between health and SASP targets, and engaged the most senior levels of government. Considerable developmental work had been undertaken to pave the way for such an approach. SA Health and the Department of the Premier and Cabinet led the creation of a number of strategies used
Positioning health promotion as a policy priority in Australia
Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2017
Recent Australian scholarship has provided a clear rationale for investing in health promotion policy in Australia. 1 This is consistent with the aim of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) 'to advance the health of all people in Australia through leadership, advocacy and support for health promotion action in practice, research, evaluation and policy'. 2 A key element of AHPA advocacy platform has involved the adoption of a multi-partisan approach. This means engagement with political parties of different persuasions as a means to support health advancement in Australia. One recent opportunity involved participation in the Labor Party's National Health Policy Summit (the Summit). It was hosted jointly by the Leader of the Opposition and the Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the Shadow Minister for Health, and the Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health. Held in Canberra on 3 March 2017, it was an invitation-only event attended by 150+ representatives of professional health bodies from around Australia. The authors of this editorial represented AHPA at the Summit, and the commentary reflects our views based on participation in the Summit (it does not necessarily reflect a policy position of AHPA).
The future of health care in Australia
The Medical Journal of Australia, 2017
Our plan is to provide long term, generational change that is evidence-based and able to make a real difference to people's lives Perspective MJA 207 (9) j