Politics and health
BH
Mr D Schmitt
6 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Gippsland/Distance
The subject introduces students to the processes of social policy decision-making in Australia with emphasis on the welfare state as applied to health and nurses as active participants in the political system.
Assessment
Skills exercise (1000 words): 15% * Short essay (1500 words): 40% * Research essay (2000 words): 45%
Prescribed texts
Gardner H The politics of health: The Australian experience, Churchill Livingstone, 1989
Jaensch D Parliament, parties and people: Australian politics today Longman Cheshire, 1991
Palmer G and Short S Health care and public policy: An Australian analysis Macmillan, 1989