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Do you need to keep up-to-date with health management information?
The Health Planning and Management Library can help you
The Health Planning & Management Library provides information on management, health services management, and health facilities planning and design. You can access information on topics such as organisational change, leadership, human resource management, leadership, lean thinking, quality, primary health services and aged care.
The Library maintains a small, but focused collection of print journals, books and reports, including many HOSPLAN and other related materials that are unique in Australia. This is supplemented with access to full-text bibliographic databases which provide the latest knowledge in the health management and planning domain.
The Library is open to anyone who would like to use the resources and facilities. Charges apply for photocopying and some services. Bookings are essential.
For ACHSM Members
Online Services
The Health Planning & Management Library offers ACHSM members free access to the major health bibliographic databases from:
Many citations will have access to full-text articles directly. Full-text journal articles may be requested from the library if required.
Journal Document Delivery
For ACHSM members articles are generally free unless they need to be obtained from a University. In this case for each article the charge is $18.00 (incl. GST).
Articles are scanned and emailed. Your first request for articles will need to be accompanied by a completed Copyright Declaration Form. You will not need to submit subsequent forms for future article requests.
Books are available for loan within Australia, the requester bears the cost of the return postage to ACHSM.
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Websites
You can create your own alerts with:
Australia:
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United Kingdom:
- Department of Health
- Nesta - The UK’s innovation foundation. It provides investments and grants and mobilising research, networks and skills
- Research and Development Corporation health database (RAND)
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
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eBooks and Reports:
- Cutting a better drug deal
- What price value capture?
- Incidence of insulin-treated diabetes in Australia, 2015
- Hospitalisations for mental health conditions and intentional self-harm in 2014-15
- Cancer in Australia 2017
- Child protection Australia 2015-16
- Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment: Oral Health Program—July 2012 to December 2015
- Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment: Ear and Hearing Health Program—July 2012 to June 2016
- New care models: Emerging innovations in governance and organisational form
- Improving the health of the public by 2040: optimising the research environment for a healthier, fairer future
- State of Care 2015/16
- Health expenditure Australia 2014-15
- Hospital productivity growth in the English NHS 2008/09 to 2013/14
Purchase the Handbook of Health Management Research
Edited by Professor Sandra G. Leggat and the members of the Society for Health Administration Programs in Education (SHAPE) 2018
Price: AUD 73.60 incl GST
Written by experts in health management research in Australia, and the broader Asia Pacific region, the intent of this Handbook is to meet the needs of beginning and experienced health management researchers. It is also a useful resource for those who need to make decisions based on health management research. The authors describe the steps of the research process, the various methods and provide useful examples of health management research.