Critique of an Existing Health Program

Critique of an
Existing Health
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND..............................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
Strengths and shortcomings of program along with requirement of change..........................2
How program address primary care principles in global context...........................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
Primary health care programme refers a model which helps people in improving their
health as it focuses on all those areas which are related to problems and diseases of individuals
and communities. It is important to develop string primary health care program in order to make
sure that people can get effective healthcare services which they actually need. An effective
health care program improves coordination and also prevents them against diseases. One of the
main aims of health care program is to improve quality of living of people and decreasing
mortality rate by making them aware about importance of health care and access to healthcare as
well. In the context of healthcare program of Australia it can be said that healthcare system is
effective and government are playing effective role for providing universal health care federal,
local and state and territory. One of the main roles of federal government is providing funding as
well as providing indirect support to health profession (Australian Healthcare System: A Policy
Perspective, 2018). Main target of this selected Medicaid healthcare program is aboriginal people
as they have lack access to health care services. By developing this program, health care services
can be provided to them. By comparing health care system of Australia with other countries of
systems it highlights main issue and problems.
Health care program or system of Australia focuses on main 2 problems such as:
Resources allocation and performance outcomes improvements of patients. By making an
effective use of policy implementation related to health care quality of patients’ outcomes is
being identified. In this healthcare program and healthcare system of Australia some members
play an important role which includes: executive, hospital managers and healthcare management
practitioners. They all collaboratively use in disciplinary approach in making this program
successful and providing better health care services to patients or target people. There are main 4
principles of this primary health care program which include: promoting equality in order to
make healthcare essential as well as accessible for all especially to aboriginal. Achieving social
justice and reducing health inequality in health as a human right. Making people able to lead
economically as well as socially productive lives. Removing inequalities in health is one of the
main aims of this Medicaid health care program of Australia. This will also show some strengths
and limitations of this program in order to know areas of improvement and improving quality of
lives of people by providing them better healthcare services to them.
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MAIN BODY
Strengths and shortcomings of program along with requirement of change
Australian health care program and system is known as one of the best in the organization. But
due to changes in needs of some health care this has come under pressure. Some significant
changes in healthcare need increasing demand of health care, inequalities, healthcare costs and
others. All these changes are putting pressure on health care system of Australia to make changes
and improve strategies of healthcare system. So, one of the main aims of developing this
healthcare program.
Strengths of this healthcare Medicaid program is it provides free access to health care services
to aboriginal and children and women. It also provides healthcare services to low income of
people which cannot afford costly healthcare which lead to increase in mortality rate and death
rate due to lack of access before the age. Improving healthcare access for aboriginal, low income
of people and the poor is strength of this program. Health care beneficiaries have increased since
the introduction of the Medicaid health care program as compared to the poor without the
coverage Comans & et.al., (2016).
Although different reports and data regarding Australia’ healthcare have been developed
and published by Australian state, federal and territories governments. In addition, it can be said
that Oxfam also plays an important role in developing healthcare services as it understands that
Aboriginal and Torres Islanders require health care services and they can do it themselves by
focusing on some factors like having nutritional food and others. They also stated that no one can
understand their circumstances and problems better than them.
They are required to make aware as how to take care of themselves and at their own with
the help of this development Medicaid health care program Health and Wellbeing Program,
(2018). With the help of this program they can also told some ways to control, making their own
best decisions and living a healthy lifestyle as like others. It can decrease gap between the poor
and the rich which is also preliminary aims of this development program.
Some shortage of this program and healthcare system is shortage of skilled workforce due to
workload and ineffective working environment to some extent. People do not prefer to work in
this sector because they have to deal with critical patients and people which increase their work
load. So, it can be said that these changes in needs are putting pressure to Australian health care
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