Formula Funding and Regional Planning of Health Services in Australia

The provision of health services to particular groups and communities within Australia's scattered population has been problematic for more than a century. British-style voluntaryism yielded slowly to the authority of six states, and eventually to a state-national approach to distribution and redistribution resources. New patterns of formula funding and regional planning, however, continue to rely on proxy measures that defend existing administrative positions or further established interests.

Author(s): Neville Hicks

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Volume 63, Issue 4 (pages 671–690)
Published in 1985