The Role Of External And Internal Factors On The Healthcare Sector Of The Region

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

A Health care system of any country is an important consideration for the purposes of the overall development. One of the most important and essential feature of the human body is the health and the systems. In the same manner, proper management is also necessary. Furthermore, all the countries of the world have few targets and achievements to be made. On the other hand, it should also be noted down that, economic development and social welfare the two most are the two important factors. Economic welfare is connected with the increase in the wealth of the people at large (Niles, 2011).

In this report I will be describing different patterns of ill health and who and how they are monitored. I will also try to explain different factors that affect our health, not only now but I will try to discuss how different factors fight effect our health in the future, I will then evaluate the influence of the government have on factors that affect ill health.

In the healthcare field, there are forces that drive practice and develop change within an organization. There are both internal and external forces in which not one organization is immune to (Kotter, 1996). By establishing a vision of the company, a sense of purpose and direction is created, working towards change within the forces (Huyer, 2014). When people participate in a vision, they work towards a common goal and identify what needs to be changed in order to reach that vision. In this paper, a presentation of Banner Health will be discussed, along with its mission and stakeholders, driving forces, viability, as well as an analysis of forces, a response to change, a vision for change, and an evaluation of change.

The North Eastern Local Health Integration Network is responsible for integration amongst different health care establishments and providers within towns such as Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay and a few more. These towns are relatively rural communities and an reoccurring issue in rural communities is not having the same opportunities as those living in urban communities or in the city. Living in rural communities, limits the access that residents have to the care they need because of a lack of these care facilities and providers and it also limits the quality of care that these residents can receive because of a lack of resources and specialists. Unlike in Toronto and surrounding towns, many people have access to primary care, specialists, rehabilitation and more. North eastern LHIN and supporting organizations such as Health Science North and Rural Health pub work to implement integration initiatives to help increase the access to quality health care services to residents of rural communities in northeastern Ontario. One of the programs

There are external and internal reasons that drive healthcare organizations to improve their quality of healthcare. External reasons for quality improvements come from governments, insurers, and consumers requiring that healthcare organizations provide and continue to improve on high-quality and safer health care. The internal reasons for quality improvements come from staff who work within these healthcare organizations. The quality of healthcare differs from city to city and even from country to country. In order for healthcare organizations to meet the quality of care expectations demanded and set themselves apart from other healthcare organizations, they pursue becoming accredited. One must understand what accreditation is, the history of accreditation and what the future holds for accreditation, in order to understand how being accredited can improve the quality in healthcare.

In light of these new traits of the society, the health care sector must develop itself and address the new needs of the society. Furthermore, these new needs are not only shaped by the changes in the life style of the population, but other traits as well. For instance, at a demographic level, it is noted that the population ages at a rapid rate and requires more health care. Then, at an economic level, it is noted how the internationalized economic crisis poses new threats and limits the population's access to health care.

Therefore, local health department primary function is to provide community oversight and carry out activities such as community health assessment, assurance, and policy development. In other word, local health department is a service unit of the state government that serves the people directly by conducting a community assessment to identify the population it serves, investigating health problems and health threats in the community, preventing, immunizing, and carrying out many other community related health

(Niles, 2018, p.98) "Other responsibilities that are commonly fulfilled by state departments of health include the distribution of federal and state funds to local health departments and other service providers; the assurance of contracts compliance and service quality; and maintenance of a variety of information and data sets, including records of births and deaths, infectious diseases, injuries, hospital admitting diagnoses, health care facilities, and health workforce information." ("State and Local Health Departments", n.d.) In turn, local health departments provide their communities with health activities through specific services and have direct impact on the local citizens. In other words, the local health department carries out the mission of the state health department as needed for its specified location and

President Obama on March 23, 2010 signed one of the biggest reforming acts of our century, the Affordable Care Act or to some refer to it as “Obama Care”. This was President Obama’s finest moments for some and for others it was believed that it wasn’t great idea to create such a law act. The Affordable Care Act law was created and established to change everything about health care and bring in magnificent reforms. This law was given to citizens to have access to healthcare despite income or any pre-existing conditions or stipulations. Most are the benefits that are offered by Obama Care is that: Children can’t be denied care because of a pre-existing condition, specific persons with pre-existing conditions can now have insurance access, and young adults can stay in their parents’ insurance until the age of 26. Insurance coverage aren’t and can’t be denied because of any errors made on the application, which wasn’t allowed in the past.

In terms of state health agency structure and governance, approximately thirty percent of the state have a centralized governance organization, thus local health units are mainly led by employees of the state. Ten percent of the state have a joint governance structure so local health divisions is controlled by state employees of the local government or state. If state employees are in control, local government has the authority to make financial decisions or issue municipal health instructions; if local employees are in control the state stays in control. On the other hand, more than half of the state have a decentralized structure, therefore local units are mainly controlled by workers of local governments. Ten percent of the state have

Australia is a two tiered system including a private and public sector. Medicare is a universal health insurance scheme under the public system. It was introduced on the 1st of February 1984 by the Australian Labor party the principal is for all Australian to have equal access to health. There are three levels of government these include Local, State or territory and Federal, all three have different roles to perform in terms of health care. The local government is responsible for towns and districts, moreover, local councils or shires function is to operate systems and projects such as sewage, garbage disposals and maintenance of the safety food standard. Both state and federal direct different parts of Medicare. State government manages public hospital within their territory or state, the state government receives 40%-50% of the total cost of expenditures for the public hospital from the Federal government. Lastly, Federal role includes payments to primary health services there include GPs, the majority of nurses, medical specialists and allied health professionals. In 1996 Budget guaranteed the renewal of private health insurance.

Hospitals, mental health institutions, drug rehabilitation programs, and such services as laboratory and radiology are provided by the regional authorities. Each region has an enterprise that is owned by the state and is fully responsible for providing specialized health care to that regions’ inhabitants.

Under public health, an ideal healthcare system will ensure that the members of the society remain healthy and this will require prevention of injuries and diseases as well as health promotion and provision of coordinated, effective and timely healthcare. To achieve lasting and substantial improvements in public health, a common goal alignment will be of great important. A clear cut integration of public health and primary care will improve the capacity of the healthcare system in carrying out respective missions and linking it with other stakeholders in the promotion of collaborative ward improved health of the community.

Health System has been developed; the most basic unit is a Sub-Health Post or Health Post in each Village Development Committee area. However, the expansion of the Health System has not been matched by an expansion in the domestive resources, workers and supplies, and the available resources are not efficiently distributed. In