Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Heather Gardner (Adjunct Associate Professor)

Contact Details

Email: gardner@minerva.com.au
Phone: (03) 9712 0571
International: 61 3 9712 0571

Qualifications

BA[Hons], MA (La Trobe), FAIEH(Hon).

Interests

Associate Professor Heather Gardner is a political scientist who has taught health policy and politics to health science students for many years, first at the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, then at La Trobe University, where she was Foundation Head of the School of Public Health. She has published widely on health and politics, and on the health professions. She was Editor of Environmental Health, the journal of the Australian Institute of Environmental Health (from 2001-2005), and is now a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Environmental Health. She has retained her interest in Environmental Health, and continues on as Associate Editor. She is also a member of the Board of The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (from 2003-to date). Heather was the Founding Editor of the Australian Journal of Primary Health, which is the journal of the Victorian Community Health Association in association with the Australian Institute of Primary Health and the School of Public Health, La Trobe University. She was editor of AJPH from 1995-2001.

Publications

Barraclough, Simon, & Gardner, Heather (2007, in press) Analysing Australian health policy: A problem-oriented approach. Sydney, Australia. Elsevier Australia.

Gardner, Heather (2007, in press). Population health, the health system and policy, In S. Barraclough & H. Gardner (Eds.), Analysing Australian health policy: A problem oriented approach. Sydney, Australia. Elsevier Australia.

Watts, Rosemary, Botti, Mari, & Gardner, Heather (2007, in press). Accommodating new technology: Robotics in prostate cancer surgery, In S. Barraclough & H. Gardner (Eds.), Analysing Australian health policy: A problem oriented approach. Sydney, Australia. Elsevier Australia.

Watts, Rosemary, Pierson, Jane, & Gardner, Heather. (2007, in press). Coordination of the discharge planning process in critical care. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Watts R., Pierson, J., Gardner, H. (2006) An insight into critical care nurses' beliefs about the discharge planning process: a questionnaire survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 43(3), 269-279.

Tacticos T., Gardner H. (2005). Cost restraint: tensions in volunteer use and support, Australian Journal on Volunteering. 10(1), 17-23.

Watts R., Pierson, J., Gardner, H. (2005). How do critical care nurses define the discharge planning process? Intensive and Critical Care Nursing.21, 39-46.

Watts R., Gardner, H. (2005). Nurses' perceptions of discharge planning. Nursing and Health Sciences. 7, 175-183.

Watts R., Gardner, H., Pierson, J. (2005) Factors that enhance or impede critical care nurses' discharge planning practices. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 21, 302-313.

Gardner, Heather. (Ed). 2004. Environmental Health, Melbourne: Australian Institute for Environmental Health, Volume 4, Numbers 1-4.

Liamputtong, P. & Gardner, H. (Eds.). (2003). Health, Social Change & Communities. OUP.

Gardner, H. (2003). Editorial. Environmental Health, 3(3), 9-10.

Gardner, H. (2003). Editorial. Environmental Health, 3(4), 10.

Gardner, H. (Ed.). (2003). Environmental Health. Melbourne: Australian Institute for Environmental Health, Volume 3, Numbers 1-4.

Ristevski, E., Gardner, H., & Tacticos, T. (2003). Altruism or entrepreneurialism: Competing ideologies in the voluntary section. In P. Liamputtong & H. Gardner (Eds.), Health, social change and communities (pp. 54-73). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Gardner, H. & Barraclough, S. (Eds.). (2002). Health Policy in Australia, 2nd edn. OUP.

Gardner, H. (Ed.). (2002). Environmental Health. Melbourne: Australian Institute for Environmental Health, Volume 2, Numbers 1-4.

Gardner, H. (Ed.). (2001). Environmental Health. Melbourne: Australian Institute for Environmental Health, Volume 1, Numbers 1-4.

Gardner, H. (ed.) (1997) Health policy in Australia. Oxford University Press, Melbourne

Gardner, H. (ed.) (1995). The politics of health: The Australian experience. 2nd edn. Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne.

McCoppin, B., Gardner H. (1994) Tradition and reality: Nursing and politics in Australia. Churchill Livingstone, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne.

Gardner, H. (ed.) (1992) Health policy: Development, implementation and evaluation in Australia. Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne.