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Medical travel can be very stressful physically, emotionally, and financially. Moreover, due to very high unemployment rate most of the families cannot afford to have their own transportation vehicles to access primary care in the community. Transportation issue can also lead to missing appointments or delayed treatments. There are minimal health care services in the aboriginal communities, particularly those that are in rural, remote, and in north with limited to access to medical technology, equipment, supplies and medications (HCC, 2013). Majority of Aboriginals do not have access to technology, therefore, access to health information and promotion is limited. Telehealth and other virtual or mobile health care programs are available; the problem is that communities do not always have adequate information and communication technology and other infrastructures to reliably deliver these programs. The lack of a modern

According to World health organization (WHO), a state of social, mental and physical well-being and the absence of disease is defined as a health (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2016a). The main aim of healthcare system is to provide health services to the people including permanent residents, tourists, temporary, citizens and students. The primary purpose of a healthcare system is to promote, maintain and re-establish health. The Healthcare system of a country includes emergency care, diagnosis of diseases, health advancement and maintenance, treatment of chronic and acute term diseases ( Health Education and Training Institute, n.d). In the past, doctors were not well trained and paid and the access to GP’s was not affordable

While implementing Primary Health Care models, identical to those in metropolitan areas, in a rural setting is not practical, I feel there is an obvious need to improve primary health care in remote areas. This is due to the significant health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, in rural and remote areas

Throughout this essay an evaluation will be deducted on the health inequalities among Australians. Secondly, a further evaluation to appraise and identify the causes, scope and impact on the health and well-being of [the] individual (s), families and community. Thirdly, describe the paradigms and accountabilities that Government and non-Government Organisations [NGO] assume across community services and health sectors to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians. Additionally, reviewing the over-all health and wellbeing issues from service- operators and counselors to assist in the ongoing [future] development of better health-care for Australians. Finally, differentiate professional practices and reactions to appropriated community

-Embarked on a medical mission to provide free healthcare services, including primary care, OB/GYN, dentistry, and optometry, to Vietnam’s poverty-stricken villages

In rural areas, the hospitals are basic and inefficient, sometimes they are not even there when people need them. Most people in Fiji have to drive hours to get to a hospital. Pharmacies in Fiji do not always have the right kind of medication for people, and it can be a long process to get them there. It is also very hard to find a pharmacy in rural areas. Healthcare programs have faltered in the past, but they got better in the 1970s. Primary healthcare was brought to the villages of Fiji, and has reduced sicknesses and diseases in the

A significant volunteer experience that augmented my leadership skills and expanded my understanding of medicine was at the Honolulu Harbor Medical Clinic sponsored by the Seafarer’s Ministry. The Seafarer’s Ministry provides spiritual, emotional, and social support for the undocumented foreign fishermen docked at Honolulu Harbor. The clinic began with few volunteers and two doctors who provided medical care to undocumented foreign fishermen from a box of supplies out of a truck. This expanded my capacity to understanding, to humbly accept circumstances and encouraged me to practice medicine with culturally sensitivity.

I was previously an Albanian citizen. I was raised surrounded by a violent civil war and civil unrest in the nation which is still nowadays plagued by corruption and extreme economic inequalities. Becoming a US citizen was for me an unimaginably great opportunity for which I feel in debt to my now fellow Americans. For this reason, my ultimate career goal is to give back to the great community that has taken me in as one of their own by tackling the problem of inequality between neighborhoods in New York. As a future physician, my goal will be to work in economically disadvantaged areas to not only treat, but also educate children, teenagers, and young adults about their personal health care. With the opportunities that the Summer Public Health Scholars Program can offer me, I plan to ultimately play my part in the nationwide effort of eliminating inequalities of populations in disadvantaged environment so that every American citizen of all ages may one day witness the great opportunities and true equalities that are promised to them under our great

Each year, I choose 2 students to represent our program and let others know what this program is all about.

Together with a fortified essential medicinal services administration, open doctor's facilities will be a key segment of the proposed NHI framework, giving, for most subjects, the main accessible healing center consideration (given the exorbitance of private doctor's facility administrations) (McIntyre, 2007a; McIntyre, 2009b). In the meantime, private area change is imagined to happen nearby changes in people in general part with a specific end goal to change, the wellbeing framework all in all (Ministry of Health, 2011). View of low quality of social insurance may discourage patients from utilizing the accessible administrations on the grounds that wellbeing concerns are among the most critical of human concerns (Lafond, 1995). Guaranteeing great nature of consideration is not just essential as a result of the NHI; rather, it ought to be an objective of any

To improve health services in the Indigenous communities, strong links needs to be built between the staff and the Indigenous Elders as this could help with the Indigenous community accessing the health services (Hayman et al. 2009). Having mutual respect, building trust and understanding is the key factor for making services accessible to the Indigenous people (ctgc-rs27 pdf document), and the community Elders are a vital conduit for respect, building trust, and acceptance (Scrimgeour & Scrimgeour 2008). When health services build solid relationship with the local Elders and regularly consulting with them and being genuine, this will then help with developing culturally secure services (ctgc-rs27 pdf document). It would be different though

“Compared with urban residents, people living in rural communities have shorter life expectancies, higher death rates and higher infant mortality rates.” (Ministry Advisory Council on Rural Health, 2002 p. 1) In relation to shorter life expectancies, Indigenous peoples are three times more likely to have diabetes then non-Aboriginals and there is a higher prevalence of major chronic disease, suicide, smoking and alcohol abuse as well as low incomes and lower levels of education. Considering all these factors, it is especially important that the health care that is needed in these rural, Indigenous communities is easily accessible and affordable. There are many health care barriers that prevent the rural and remote Indigenous Communities from accessing such needed care. Lack of accessibility to health care and lack of resources and health care professionals are two of the main barriers faced today. A holistic balanced approach including mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health is needed to maintain wellbeing and there are many barriers preventing these communities from receiving it.

In a hot and sunny morning of October, the road led me to a rural community located miles away from Santo Domingo. A few meters from Haina riverside, the place in which I would spend a year far away from home for the first time in my life. I was 23, recently graduated from medical school, continuing my journey of helping people through one of the most honorable and rewarding arts, medicine. The duty: being the primary care physician of La Pared, an underserved community. I remember my supervisor asking if I was up to the task, given my youth and lack of experience.

In relation to Fijian patients, nurses can be expected to preserve or maintain certain cultural practices such as prayer, traditional healers and available herbs are significant to the recovery of the Fijian patient. Using prayer as a remedy is also seen to be important to the Fijian patient’s recovery. Other methods include using traditional healers and available herbs, which is also useful for the Fijian patient to actively engage in treatments and procedures whereby necessary.

This individual reflection on the group work will present how I have seen the application of the principles of Primary Health Care (PHC) through the roles of the community health workers (CHW) in making health care more accessible. In addition, some strategies will be suggested to address the critical bottlenecks that hinder the effectiveness of the CHWs. Having the experience of working as a District Health Officer, this reflection will highlight most significant areas that I feel require attention to improve the health system in the country. This reflection will be based on the two case studies of CHWs in Malawi and Sri Lanka namely, the Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) and Eye Health Promoters, respectively.