The Population Profile Of Australia

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

The Australian healthcare system has been evolving since the beginning of the colonisation of Australia. Today, Australia has an extremely efficient healthcare system although it still has several issues. The influencing factors, structure, and current issues of the Australian healthcare system will be throughly discussed and explained in this essay.

As a people, our rate of chronic disease is still 2.5 times higher than that of other Australians, and Indigenous people in this country die 15 to 20 years younger than those in mainstream Australia. More than half of

The Australian health care system is a highly functioning and accessible system based on universal principles of access and equity. In this essay I will discuss the historical evolution and current structure of our health system, identifying current health service models of delivery and look at its strengths, weaknesses, policies and health priorities currently in Australia. I will discuss the roles of government and non-government health services in service provision and funding sources of Australian health. We will get a better insight of the role of standards for residential aged care and look into a broad range of professions that consumers may engage with in health service delivery, their roles and functions of each profession.

This paper will examine the healthcare of Indigenous Australian peoples compared to non-indigenous Australians. The life expectancy gaps between the two are a cause for alarm when statistics show Indigenous Australian peoples die on average 17 years earlier than non-indigenous Australians (Dick 2017). This paper will examine the social determinants of health to explore these factors and what interventions are in place to improve health status and life expectancy gaps for equality. The Federal Government has seen the implementation of the Northern Territory Intervention and the Closing the Gap Initiative. This essay will examine these two strategies and discuss the effectiveness of both policies. It will explain the differences, similarities and look at the success so far to

As health professionals, we must look beyond individual attributes of Indigenous Australians to gain a greater understanding and a possible explanation of why there are such high rates of ill health issues such as alcoholism, depression, abuse, shorter life expectancy and higher prevalence of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and obesity in our indigenous population. Looking at just the individual aspects and the biomedical health model, we don’t get the context of Aboriginal health. This is why we need to explore in further detail what events could have created such inequities in Aboriginal health. Other details that we should consider are the historical and cultural factors such as, ‘terra nullius’, dispossession and social

This essay will discuss the structure of Australia’s healthcare system, known as Medicare. It will also discuss the role of the Government and Non-Government agencies, and Medicare’s strengths and weaknesses. It will also address the health and illness issues that aboriginal and people from overseas face, and also the significance of implementing best practice and quality management

This essay discusses the history and inception of the Australian Healthcare system, how it is funded through the Government and the public income. How and where healthcare is delivered and its effectiveness, including issues and priorities according to current healthcare policies and national standards.

The inequalities in today’s indigenous communities are still strongly evident. Heard, Khoo & Birrell (2009), argued that while there has been an attempt in narrowing the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians, a barrier still exists in appropriate health care reaching indigenous people. The Indigenous people believe, health is more than the individual, it is

al., 2011). Health service accessibility by individuals in rural and remote areas is a problem central to both countries. Reports indicate that compared with metropolitan populations, non-metropolitan populations, in both Australia and the UK, experience poor access to health services (Watt, Franks, Sheldon, 1994, p. 16). As in the primary care sector of the UK, majority of the doctors in Australia are self-employed and reimbursed on a fee-for-service approach (Gillies, 2003, p. 77). GP’s are the initial point of contact for patients in both Australia and the UK. Additional specialist medical services such as physiotherapy and optometry are only available when patients are provided with a formal referral from their GPs (Piterman, Koritsas, 2005). Although the NHS is similar to the Australian health system in certain ways, both systems also possess some differences.

Department of Health and Ageing in Australia has a range of responsibilities but all of these responsibilities aim to insure "Better

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Diabetes is at epidemic proportions in Australia. From 1989 to 2011-12 the percentage of people living with diabetes has increased from 1.5% to 4.2% (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare , 2013 ). Diabetes can cause many complications and can create complex health care and rehabilitation needs. Clients, especially those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, with type 2 diabetes mellitus often have complex health care and rehabilitation needs. A holistic approach needs to be taken in regards to helping these clients to work with multidisciplinary health professional teams to collaboratively create an effective treatment or management plan that best benefits their health care needs and is culturally safe and appropriate. Type 2 diabetes is 3.2 times more prevalent in in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2014). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework monitors progress in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes, health system performance and the broader determinants of health but what makes it effective is that it takes into account that maintainable health gain requires contribution from other areas of life such as education and housing rather than just an equitable health care system (Australian Health Ministers ' Advisory Council, 2012). The complex health care and rehabilitation needs of a client living with type 2 diabetes and the relevance of the Aboriginal and

There are more than 1,500 small rural, in addition to remote communities, which will in Australia. The rural villages have a population that has less than 5,000 locals (Wakerman et al., 2008). A significant concern is that the majority of these residents struggle to access and maintain broad primary health care services. The above factor has marginalised the communities in terms of health care provisions compared to the urban regions (Gardner et al., 2011). In addition, the imperative concern is the type of model that is used in these two different areas to deliver equal healthcare services to the locals. As a result, there is a need to evaluate the models of healthcare delivery and assign the relevant model to these rural regions in order to ensure the prevailing of equity in healthcare delivery throughout the country.

By the beginning of 21st century, public health activities over different settings led to growth in healthcare. Improvement in large number of diseases, injuries, infectious diseases, nutrition, sanitation, cancers, & dental health have led to significant growth in Australia’s health population since last 30 years. Improvements grew from advances and technology in medicine and surgery, delivery of quality health care services, and also range of public health programs & promotion via an organized approach (NHMRC, Dec 1996, p.7). When we talk about developing and implementing population based interventions & strategies,