This unit examines key current health and community care management and policy issues from historical, operational, and strategic perspectives. The unit gives an overview of current health and community care policy debates and challenges. Students will be also be encouraged to consider the key health and community care policy issues and debates within their own area of work (e.g. aged care, rural health, primary health, mental health, tertiary acute care etc) and to clarify the options and implications of health and community care policy directions for their own organisation and for themselves as health and community care managers.