Stephen Duckett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1728801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Duckett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Duckett |
| SIGNATURE | DUCKETT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2096-5905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The National Health Reform Agreement as an Instrument of Broader Health Reform
Subsidiarity, solidarity and challenges for faith-based social sector provision in Australia
As Forde rightly highlights, the Red Tory-Blue Labour reliance on the Catholic social teaching precept of subsidiarity as a basis for social sector reform is inadequate, ignoring the equally important emphasis on solidarity. The Red Tory-Blue Labour post-liberal reform direction mostly passed Australia by, but the solidarity-subsidiarity frame still has relevance for the future of faith-based welfare organizations in the country. The challenge fo…
Challenges of economic evaluation in rare diseases
Public Health Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government
The Australian Commonwealth government has four health-related responsibilities during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: to provide national leadership; to manage external borders; to protect residents of residential aged care facilities; and to approve, procure and roll-out tests and vaccines. State governments are responsible for determining what public health measures are appropriate and implementing them-including managing the border quarantine arrang…
A journey towards a theology of health economics and healthcare funding
Policy decisions in healthcare inherently involve value choices, but these are rarely made explicit. As a health economist participating in policy debates, I have become increasingly concerned about the profession's implicit values and began to explore - through a PhD in theology - what a theologically informed basis for health economics, and healthcare funding in particular, might comprise. The result is articulation of a set of principles deriv…
Pathos, death talk and palliative care in the assisted dying debate in Victoria, Australia
Many submissions made by individuals to an Australian Parliamentary inquiry into end-of-life care which supported assisted dying used narratives of bad deaths of family or friends, or included stories by people suffering from chronic terminal illness. The submissions used the emotional tugs (pathos) of these narratives to support their case and to highlight the contemporary weaknesses of end-of-life care. This paper analyses the submissions, show…
The long and winding road to assisted dying in Australia
Public opinion polling shows that Australians have long supported legalising assisted dying, but this has not generally led to legislative success. Since 1993, Australian parliament have considered legalising assisted dying over 50 times, with only two attempts being successful: Northern Territory in 1995 and Victoria in 2017. This paper describes the Northern Territory and Victorian legislation and the processes associated with the passage of th…
Sriya Iyer, The Economics of Religion in India
Arguing in the Public Square: Christian Voices Against Assisted Dying in Victoria
Assisted dying is a topic fraught with theological and ethical contention. It has been regularly debated in Australian parliaments and is currently under active consideration in New South Wales and Victoria. The Victorian process involved a public inquiry by a committee of Victoria’s upper house which attracted more than a thousand submissions. This paper analyses the submissions made to that committee by Christian churches and organizations with…
Care trajectories through community and residential aged care services: Disease effects
As in other ageing populations, dementia, musculoskeletal conditions and cardiovascular disease affect a high proportion of Australians aged over 65 years, and the prevalence of these conditions increases significantly with age. People with these conditions may need to access a range of care services over time to enable them to remain living in their homes. Many eventually need to move into a nursing home. In contrast to the considerable recent l…
Social Policy at the 2004 Election
Social policy appeared to be a key battleground at the 2004 Australian Federal election. Opposition Leader Latham announced major policies on Medicare, family support and taxation, and schools funding during the election campaign. Using sample survey data from the Australian Election Study 2004, this paper analyses how these policies may have influenced voters. In brief, although a significant proportion of electors identified these issues as bei…
Should We Add Clinical Variables to Administrative Data: The Case of Risk-Adjusted Case Fatality Rates After Admission for Acute Myocardial Infarction
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have evaluated whether the addition of multiple laboratory and clinical factors to administrative data, or reabstraction of administrative data, improve the accuracy of risk adjustment. This study assessed if a more feasible strategy of adding 3 readily accessible clinical variables to hospital administrative data might improve the risk adjustment for interhospital comparisons. OBJECTIVES: We compared 3 alternative ri…
Modeling the Emergency Ambulance Pass-By of Small Rural Hospitals in Victoria, Australia
CONTEXT: Many small rural hospitals struggle to attract sufficient numbers of suitable patients. Inadequate patient throughput threatens the viability of these hospitals and, consequently, the financial, physical, and social well-being of the whole community. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many emergency ambulance patients are routinely taken past their local small rural hospital to the area's major receiving hospital. PURPOSE: To quantify the …
A question of place: Medical power in rural Australia
Specific Purpose Programs in Human Services and Health: Moving from an Input to an Output and Outcome Focus
The content and control mechanisms of specific purpose programs are regularly under review, currently through processes associated with the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), with most proposals for reform in this area arguing for a shift to a focus on outputs or outcomes. This article reviews the place and role of specific purpose programs in the human services and health field, and identifies four issues which need to be addressed as par…
Structural interests and Australian health policy
Assuring Hospital Standards: The Introduction of Hospital Accreditation in Australia
The system of hospital accreditation that has developed in Australia involves a quasi non‐government organization, the Australian Council on Hospital Standards (ACHS), “surveying” hospitals and issuing certificates to those which meet published standards. The surveying process has the potential to influence the internal hospital balance of power between doctors and the hospital administration, and to place additional demands on statutory health a…
Changing hospitals: The role of hospital accreditation
Promoting Inequity: The Jamison Report Proposals on Health Insurance
The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Efficiency and Administration of Hospitals (the Jamison Report) contained a series of recommendations relating to health insurance. This paper reviews those recommendations and the existing health insurance arrangements, and argues that the Jamison proposals will lead to greater inequity rather than greater equity
Chopping and Changing Medibank
Part 2: An Interpretation of the Policy Making Process The changes to the health insurance scheme which were announced and implemented in 1976 provide an opportunity to analyse the policy making process in Australia. Two paradigms are used to analyse this process: pluralist and marxist. It is concluded that the marxist paradigm is the more useful in trying to understand the 1976 Medibank changes
Chopping and Changing Medibank
An Index of Hospital Performance
The purpose of this paper is to describe a simple index for computing relative hospital performance. An analysis of 33 short-stay general hospitals in New South Wales was used to develop the index. The index is based on patterns of admissions for each hospital, adjusting the hospital's crude death rate for the age distribution of patients treated and variations in the severity of their diagnoses. The index is relatively simple to calculate, but i…
The Coordination of Welfare and Health Services in Australia
The report of the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health (Bailey Report) is the most important single report on the organization of health and welfare services since the first Medibank Green Paper. It provides for the collapsing of a plethora of categorical grants into four broad ‘programme grants’. The effects of this report will be felt by most health and welfare organizations. It is the purpose of the article to review the main recom…
A question of place: Medical power in rural Australia
Structural interests and Australian health policy
Changing hospitals: The role of hospital accreditation
Chopping and Changing Medibank
Part 2: An Interpretation of the Policy Making Process The changes to the health insurance scheme which were announced and implemented in 1976 provide an opportunity to analyse the policy making process in Australia. Two paradigms are used to analyse this process: pluralist and marxist. It is concluded that the marxist paradigm is the more useful in trying to understand the 1976 Medibank changes
Chopping and Changing Medibank
Care trajectories through community and residential aged care services: Disease effects
As in other ageing populations, dementia, musculoskeletal conditions and cardiovascular disease affect a high proportion of Australians aged over 65 years, and the prevalence of these conditions increases significantly with age. People with these conditions may need to access a range of care services over time to enable them to remain living in their homes. Many eventually need to move into a nursing home. In contrast to the considerable recent l…
Assuring Hospital Standards: The Introduction of Hospital Accreditation in Australia
The system of hospital accreditation that has developed in Australia involves a quasi non‐government organization, the Australian Council on Hospital Standards (ACHS), “surveying” hospitals and issuing certificates to those which meet published standards. The surveying process has the potential to influence the internal hospital balance of power between doctors and the hospital administration, and to place additional demands on statutory health a…
Promoting Inequity: The Jamison Report Proposals on Health Insurance
The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Efficiency and Administration of Hospitals (the Jamison Report) contained a series of recommendations relating to health insurance. This paper reviews those recommendations and the existing health insurance arrangements, and argues that the Jamison proposals will lead to greater inequity rather than greater equity
The Coordination of Welfare and Health Services in Australia
The report of the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health (Bailey Report) is the most important single report on the organization of health and welfare services since the first Medibank Green Paper. It provides for the collapsing of a plethora of categorical grants into four broad ‘programme grants’. The effects of this report will be felt by most health and welfare organizations. It is the purpose of the article to review the main recom…
An Index of Hospital Performance
The purpose of this paper is to describe a simple index for computing relative hospital performance. An analysis of 33 short-stay general hospitals in New South Wales was used to develop the index. The index is based on patterns of admissions for each hospital, adjusting the hospital's crude death rate for the age distribution of patients treated and variations in the severity of their diagnoses. The index is relatively simple to calculate, but i…
Chopping and Changing Medibank
Chopping and Changing Medibank
Part 2: An Interpretation of the Policy Making Process The changes to the health insurance scheme which were announced and implemented in 1976 provide an opportunity to analyse the policy making process in Australia. Two paradigms are used to analyse this process: pluralist and marxist. It is concluded that the marxist paradigm is the more useful in trying to understand the 1976 Medibank changes
Promoting Inequity: The Jamison Report Proposals on Health Insurance
The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Efficiency and Administration of Hospitals (the Jamison Report) contained a series of recommendations relating to health insurance. This paper reviews those recommendations and the existing health insurance arrangements, and argues that the Jamison proposals will lead to greater inequity rather than greater equity
Assuring Hospital Standards: The Introduction of Hospital Accreditation in Australia
The system of hospital accreditation that has developed in Australia involves a quasi non‐government organization, the Australian Council on Hospital Standards (ACHS), “surveying” hospitals and issuing certificates to those which meet published standards. The surveying process has the potential to influence the internal hospital balance of power between doctors and the hospital administration, and to place additional demands on statutory health a…
Changing hospitals: The role of hospital accreditation
Structural interests and Australian health policy
Specific Purpose Programs in Human Services and Health: Moving from an Input to an Output and Outcome Focus
The content and control mechanisms of specific purpose programs are regularly under review, currently through processes associated with the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), with most proposals for reform in this area arguing for a shift to a focus on outputs or outcomes. This article reviews the place and role of specific purpose programs in the human services and health field, and identifies four issues which need to be addressed as par…
A question of place: Medical power in rural Australia
Modeling the Emergency Ambulance Pass-By of Small Rural Hospitals in Victoria, Australia
CONTEXT: Many small rural hospitals struggle to attract sufficient numbers of suitable patients. Inadequate patient throughput threatens the viability of these hospitals and, consequently, the financial, physical, and social well-being of the whole community. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many emergency ambulance patients are routinely taken past their local small rural hospital to the area's major receiving hospital. PURPOSE: To quantify the …
Social Policy at the 2004 Election
Social policy appeared to be a key battleground at the 2004 Australian Federal election. Opposition Leader Latham announced major policies on Medicare, family support and taxation, and schools funding during the election campaign. Using sample survey data from the Australian Election Study 2004, this paper analyses how these policies may have influenced voters. In brief, although a significant proportion of electors identified these issues as bei…
Should We Add Clinical Variables to Administrative Data: The Case of Risk-Adjusted Case Fatality Rates After Admission for Acute Myocardial Infarction
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have evaluated whether the addition of multiple laboratory and clinical factors to administrative data, or reabstraction of administrative data, improve the accuracy of risk adjustment. This study assessed if a more feasible strategy of adding 3 readily accessible clinical variables to hospital administrative data might improve the risk adjustment for interhospital comparisons. OBJECTIVES: We compared 3 alternative ri…
Care trajectories through community and residential aged care services: Disease effects
As in other ageing populations, dementia, musculoskeletal conditions and cardiovascular disease affect a high proportion of Australians aged over 65 years, and the prevalence of these conditions increases significantly with age. People with these conditions may need to access a range of care services over time to enable them to remain living in their homes. Many eventually need to move into a nursing home. In contrast to the considerable recent l…
Arguing in the Public Square: Christian Voices Against Assisted Dying in Victoria
Assisted dying is a topic fraught with theological and ethical contention. It has been regularly debated in Australian parliaments and is currently under active consideration in New South Wales and Victoria. The Victorian process involved a public inquiry by a committee of Victoria’s upper house which attracted more than a thousand submissions. This paper analyses the submissions made to that committee by Christian churches and organizations with…
The long and winding road to assisted dying in Australia
Public opinion polling shows that Australians have long supported legalising assisted dying, but this has not generally led to legislative success. Since 1993, Australian parliament have considered legalising assisted dying over 50 times, with only two attempts being successful: Northern Territory in 1995 and Victoria in 2017. This paper describes the Northern Territory and Victorian legislation and the processes associated with the passage of th…
Sriya Iyer, The Economics of Religion in India
Pathos, death talk and palliative care in the assisted dying debate in Victoria, Australia
Many submissions made by individuals to an Australian Parliamentary inquiry into end-of-life care which supported assisted dying used narratives of bad deaths of family or friends, or included stories by people suffering from chronic terminal illness. The submissions used the emotional tugs (pathos) of these narratives to support their case and to highlight the contemporary weaknesses of end-of-life care. This paper analyses the submissions, show…
Challenges of economic evaluation in rare diseases
Public Health Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government
The Australian Commonwealth government has four health-related responsibilities during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: to provide national leadership; to manage external borders; to protect residents of residential aged care facilities; and to approve, procure and roll-out tests and vaccines. State governments are responsible for determining what public health measures are appropriate and implementing them-including managing the border quarantine arrang…
A journey towards a theology of health economics and healthcare funding
Policy decisions in healthcare inherently involve value choices, but these are rarely made explicit. As a health economist participating in policy debates, I have become increasingly concerned about the profession's implicit values and began to explore - through a PhD in theology - what a theologically informed basis for health economics, and healthcare funding in particular, might comprise. The result is articulation of a set of principles deriv…
The National Health Reform Agreement as an Instrument of Broader Health Reform
Subsidiarity, solidarity and challenges for faith-based social sector provision in Australia
As Forde rightly highlights, the Red Tory-Blue Labour reliance on the Catholic social teaching precept of subsidiarity as a basis for social sector reform is inadequate, ignoring the equally important emphasis on solidarity. The Red Tory-Blue Labour post-liberal reform direction mostly passed Australia by, but the solidarity-subsidiarity frame still has relevance for the future of faith-based welfare organizations in the country. The challenge fo…
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