Australian Primary Health Care Essay

Page 1 The World Health Organisation (World Health Organisation, 2008) states that the indigenous peoples of Australia are one of the most disadvantaged indigenous groups in the developed world. The health of the Indigenous population of Australia is an increasingly pressing issue. Current research and statistics reveals great inequality in many areas of health care and health status between the Aboriginal people and the general population of Australia. Couzos and Murray (2008, p. 29) report that

debate over health reform and healthcare for the future. As additional funding is not always a feasible option, health resource allocation and health finance need to be well managed to achieve efficient outputs. Health resource allocation is the allocation and management of healthcare resources or healthcare rationing (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014). Health finance refers to ‘function of a health system concerned with the mobilization, accumulation and allocation of money to cover the health needs of

the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) signed a national partnership agreement in 2008. This partnership encompassed explicit targets which included the closing the life expectancy gap and halving infant mortality rate gaps. As well as, halving the gap in reading, writing, numeracy achievements, year 12 attainment, and the differential unemployment outcome between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The building blocks to achieve this were early childhood, schooling, health, economic participation

The Commonwealth funds the Australian health insurance policy and it allows the Australian population to receive free hospital services from the public hospital (Aihw.gov.au. 2016). The Medibank started in Australia, in the year 1975 under the Whitlam Labour Government, first introduced the Medicare policy of Australia. Before the Medibank was set up in Australia, in the year 1974, Medibank legislation was passed in the same year. The “Health Insurance Bill” that helped in establishing the Medibank

on the Australian community, with 45% of Australians expected to experience mental illness at some point in their lives. In 1991, Australian Health Ministers commenced The Australian National Mental Health Strategy, which has since transitioned to its Fourth National Mental Health Plan Agreement. The Australian healthcare policy that has recently received attention in the Australian media is the revised National Mental Health Policy of 2008. The media article, ‘‘Futures will be lost’: Health fears

Introduction This essay describes a position for a Public Health Nutritionist Dietician working in Primary Health Care Outreach in West Arnhem Maningrida, Darwin and was advertised by the Northern Territory Government Department of Health position. The position of a Public Health Nutritionist Dietician working in rural or remote areas can be associated with many issues including working remotely and practising cultural safety. Dietician’s working in rural or remote locations are more likely to

recognized as one of the most vulnerable population groups. Vulnerable population groups present with multiple cumulative risk factors for health complications, they are more likely to have worse outcomes from particular health problems as compared to the rest of the population (Pacquiao, 2008). Refugee’s often have a personal history marked by physical and psychological health problems. Most Refugees have experienced poor living conditions and have come from regions where access to healthcare is limited.

Adequate provision of health services in low and middle-income countries poses a considerable challenge to governments of the same. Global health policy is currently shifting from centering around older top-down and vertical disease programmes, to more horizontally integrated programmes that are re-focusing on Primary Health Care. ‘Community participation’ is a popular concept, where involvement of the community is considered one of the “foundational principles “ of Primary health care (Bath and Wakerman

an improved access to high quality primary health care in Ontario: AOHC’s perspective Purpose The purpose of this briefing note is to provide top three recommendations for the policy actions that AOHC should advocate in order to improve timely access to primary health care in Ontario. Background Primary care is considered to be the first point of contact with the health system for the people of Ontario and is recognized, as the building block of the entire health system. Every individual in the province

According to Ahmed, Awe, Barnes, Cropper and Kojima (2005) states that, “between 1997 to 2000 the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance estimated that ARI was the country’s single most important cause of morbidity and mortality which in this period of time the number of cases of morbidity due to ARI grew by an average of 31 percent per year, an average of two