1. Planning National Health Policy in Australia, 1941-45.
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Hunter, Thelma A.
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HEALTH policy ,HEALTH planning ,CENTRAL economic planning ,MEDICAL care - Abstract
National provisions for medical care in western societies fall broadly into three categories. The Government may provide a comprehensive range of services universally available and financed wholly or largely by taxation, as in Great Britain and a number of European countries. Alternatively, private individuals and institutions may be the main providers of medical services whose range, quality and availability is determined by the price which the patient is willing to pay, as in the U.S.A. Between these two extremes there may be a combination of government subsidy to private institutions which provide a range of limited cash benefits financed on a voluntary insurance basis by the recipients, as in Australia. The emphasis of each system largely reflects the predominant orientation of public thinking on social welfare, and on health in particular. The British system is broadly collectivist, the American unmistakably individualistic and the Australian a curious combination of the two. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1966
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