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Gavin Mooney

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Gavin Mooney is Professor of Health Economics, Curtin University of Technology and Co-convenor of the WA Social Justice Network.

Gavin Mooney's contributions:

Citizens’ juries: the basis for health policy whoever wins the election?

How can political parties work out what the citizens of Australia really want from their health services? Gavin Mooney thinks the answer lies not in opinion polling or sham ‘consultations', but in citizens' juries.


'A Health Policy for Australia': response #1

In the first of a series of responses to A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal health care, Gavin Mooney argues for more emphasis on inequity, transparency, management, community participation in setting principles, Aboriginal health, and the problems in teaching hospitals.


Priority setting: the biggest gap in Australian health planning?

The biggest problem affecting the planning of Australian health services is the failure to set priorities in a rational, informed and comprehensive way. Priority setting is about making choices based on resource limitations; not only choosing what to do but also what not to do, writes Gavin Mooney


Citizens’ juries in health. Please say “Yes” Minister

Gavin Mooney rejects the Federal Health Minister’s concern that citizens’ juries subcontract out political decision-making processes. Mooney clarifies that citizens’ juries recommend the principles that should underpin health services. Others, such as the Minister, still make the decisions. This assists rather than undermines political decision making. Mooney calls for $1 million to fund 20 juries around the country which would then be followed by a national summit on the results.


The CDEP: the need to link work, culture and health

To recognise the true benefits of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP), says Gavin Mooney, we need to broaden our understanding of what 'work' means. Rather than ditching the CDEP because of its failure to move enough Aboriginal people into the formal employment market, Mooney says we should be looking at the scheme’s non-market benefits to health, wellbeing, culture, and of course community development


Will our universities survive?

Gavin Mooney believes the core values of academic freedom, scholarship and serving the community are under threat in our universities. Increasingly, he argues, academics are subject to both direct and subtle pressures not to speak out, reliance on the corporate dollar is threatening scholarship and the community is no longer seen as the core stakeholder. These matters must be addressed if our universities are to survive


Let the people decide! Citizens' Juries in Health

Gavin Mooney urges the Commonwealth and State governments to embrace Citizens' Juries to set priorities in health and identify the values and principles that should underpin the health system. Because of scarce resources, priority setting is critical in health. Citizens' Juries, comprised of randomly selected citizens who are provided with appropriate information, provide democratic means of setting these priorities



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