Nurses on the market: The impact of neo-liberalism on the Victorian maternal and child health service

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-36

  Reiger, Kerreen ^a   Keleher, Helen ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Managerialism; Maternal and child health nurses; Maternal and child health services; Neo liberalism; Tendering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745177898     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Considine, M. 1992. Locating welfare in administration, in Beilharz, P. Considine, M. and Watts, R. (eds). Arguing about the welfare state: The Australian experience. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
2. Hancock, L. (ed). 1999. Health policy in the market state. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
3. Australia. Department of Health and Community Services. 1993. Children's and family services redevelopment scoping review. Melbourne: Victorian Government Department of Health and Community Services.
4. Australia. Department of Health and Community Services. 1994. Competitive tendering of H&CS programs: A guide for local government. Melbourne: Victorian Government Department of Health and Community Services.
5. Marmot, M. and Wilkinson, R. 1999. Social determinants of health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Qualitative Solutions and Research Pty Ltd. 1999. NUD.IST Vivo. Melbourne: QSR.
7. Reiger, K. 2001. From tender care to tendered contracts and customer servicing: The case of the Victorian Maternal and Child Health Service. The Australian Journal of Social Issues. 36(4):333-340.
8. Reiger, K. and Keleher, H. 2002. Surviving the contract state: A report on the Victorian maternal and child health service in a decade of change. Bundoora: La Trobe University.
9. Whitfield, D. 1992. The welfare state: Privatisation, deregulation, commercialisation of public services: alternative strategies for the 1990s. Sydney: Pluto Press.