Canil Milena
School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, 3086, Australia and Victorian Government Department of Human Services, 50 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia.
Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2008 May 29;5:6. doi: 10.1186/1743-8462-5-6.
Based upon a review of articles published in Australia's major newspapers over the period January 2001 to December 2005, a case study approach has been used to investigate why, when compared with other small business operators, including medical specialists, Australian governments have appeared reluctant to protect the economic viability of the businesses of self-employed midwives. Theories of agenda setting and structuralism have been used to explore that inequity. What has emerged is a picture of the complex of factors that may have operated, and may be continuing to operate, to shape the policy agenda and thus prevent solutions to the insurance problems of self-employed midwives being found.
基于对2001年1月至2005年12月期间澳大利亚主要报纸上发表的文章的回顾，本文采用案例研究方法，探究与包括医学专家在内的其他小企业经营者相比，澳大利亚政府为何似乎不愿保护个体助产士业务的经济可行性。议程设置理论和结构主义理论被用于探究这种不公平现象。结果呈现出一幅复杂的因素图景，这些因素可能已经并可能仍在影响政策议程的形成，从而阻碍了找到解决个体助产士保险问题的办法。
