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Approaches to public funding of Australia's health care. 1991

P Broadhead

Department of Health, Tasmania.

Three approaches to funding health services: historical funding, population based funding and output based funding, are characterised. Having dismissed the first and most common of these, some of the merits and pitfalls of the two remaining approaches to funding health services are briefly examined and it is argued that although they may appear to be based upon separate and competing principles, the one seeking to maximise equity and the other efficiency, a reconciliation is possible by applying both, but at different levels.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011156	Population Density	Number of individuals in a population relative to space.	Overpopulation,Population Size,Underpopulation,Densities, Population,Density, Population,Population Densities,Population Sizes
D012040	Regional Health Planning	Planning for health resources at a regional or multi-state level.	Annual Implementation Plans,Appropriateness Review,Areawide Planning,Comprehensive Health Planning,Review, Appropriateness,Annual Implementation Plan,Appropriateness Reviews,Health Planning, Comprehensive,Health Planning, Regional,Implementation Plan, Annual,Implementation Plans, Annual,Plan, Annual Implementation,Planning, Areawide,Planning, Comprehensive Health,Planning, Regional Health,Plans, Annual Implementation,Reviews, Appropriateness
D004526	Efficiency	Ratio of output to effort and or resources, or the ratio of effort and or resources produced to energy expended.	Productivity
D005069	Evaluation Studies as Topic	Works about studies that determine the effectiveness or value of processes, personnel, and equipment, or the material on conducting such studies.	Critique,Evaluation Indexes,Evaluation Methodology,Evaluation Report,Evaluation Research,Methodology, Evaluation,Pre-Post Tests,Qualitative Evaluation,Quantitative Evaluation,Theoretical Effectiveness,Use-Effectiveness,Critiques,Effectiveness, Theoretical,Evaluation Methodologies,Evaluation Reports,Evaluation, Qualitative,Evaluation, Quantitative,Evaluations, Qualitative,Evaluations, Quantitative,Indexes, Evaluation,Methodologies, Evaluation,Pre Post Tests,Pre-Post Test,Qualitative Evaluations,Quantitative Evaluations,Report, Evaluation,Reports, Evaluation,Research, Evaluation,Test, Pre-Post,Tests, Pre-Post,Use Effectiveness
D005380	Financing, Government	Federal, state, or local government organized methods of financial assistance.	Federal Aid,Financing, Public,Grants and Subsidies, Government,Hill-Burton Act,Subsidies, Government,Government Financing,Act, Hill-Burton,Aid, Federal,Aids, Federal,Federal Aids,Government Subsidies,Government Subsidy,Hill Burton Act,Public Financing,Subsidy, Government
D006295	Health Resources	Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.	Resources,Health Resource,Resource,Resource, Health,Resources, Health
D001315	Australia	The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.	Canton and Enderbury Islands,Christmas Island,Christmas Island (Australia)
D012935	Social Justice	An interactive process whereby members of a community are concerned for the equality and rights of all.	Food Justice,Common Good,Justice,Obligations of Society,Good, Common,Justice, Food,Justice, Social