The people principle in Australian health care

Mooney, Gavin H

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01956.x

Topics

As we are dealing with the people’s health, the people’s voice needs to drive the principles underpinning our health care system

Key propositions

Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA.

Correspondence: G.Mooney@curtin.edu.au

Competing interests:

None identified.

1. Menadue J. What is the health service for? Med J Aust 2008; 189: 170-171. <MJA full text>
2. McBride T. Time to talk to Australians about a sustainable and fair health system. Centre for Policy Development. 25 Jul 2007. http://cpd.org.au/article/health-reform-time-to-talk-to-Australians (accessed May 2008)
3. Mooney G. Citizens’ juries: the basis for health policy whoever wins the election? Centre for Policy Development. 9 Oct 2007. http://cpd.org.au/article/citizens-juries-basis-for-health-policy#comments (accessed May 2008)
4. Davies C, Wetherell M, Barnett E. Citizens at the centre. Deliberative participation in healthcare decisions. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2006.
5. Mooney G, Wiseman V. A constitution for health services. J Health Services Res Policy 2000; 4: 1.
6. Mooney G. Economics, medicine and health care. London: Pearson Education, 2004.
7. Jan S. A perspective on the analysis of credible commitment and myopia in health service decision making. Health Policy 2003; 63: 269-278.
8. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The 7.30 report. Hospitals crisis prompts public funding scheme [TV program transcript]. Broadcast 4 Apr 2006. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1608621.htm (accessed May 2008).
9. Sadler M. Cut health spending on aged. The West Australian 2005; 21 Dec: 7.
10. Romanow RJ, Commissioner. Building on values. The future of health care in Canada. Final report, November 2002. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/alt_formats/hpb-dgps/pdf/hhr/romanow-eng.pdf (accessed Jun 2008).

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.