Current Challenges to Health Care in Australia: Identifying and Evaluating

This report identifies and evaluates the current challenges to health care in Australia, including an ageing population, mental health issues, and health inequalities. The challenges are discussed in detail, along with their impact on the health care system and the population.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Identify and critically evaluate the following current challenges to health care in Australia......1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health care is the evolution of health through prevention, diagnosis, disease treatment,
their amelioration, the associated disease cure measures, sickness, injuries and other related
physical and mental vitiate in masses. Health care is efficiently delivered by the health care
professionals and other associated health care providers with other allied health fields. High-
quality health care aids in preventing the major and minor diseases in people and also improves
quality of life (Arnolda and et. al., 2020). Health care professionals are efficient in making sure
all people get the health care services and associated facilities within the health care setting to aid
the disease and the requirements they need within. Helping health care providers majorly
communicates more efficaciously to help and improve health and well-being. Despite the health
care efficiencies, there are major issues in Australia, some of the health care challenges includes
the workforce within the health care setting, as the nation is at least 60 FTE GPs short presently.
The report entails the identification and critically evaluation of the contemporary challenges to
the health care in Australia (Davies & Wood, 2018).
Identify and critically evaluate the following current challenges to health care in Australia
Health care system in Australia is complex in structure, in specific it's financing and
responsibilities is mutual between federal regime, state and territorial dominion governments.
This segmented funding model and informational asymmetry between patients and the health
care services providers has made coordinating and cooperation patient care challenges. The
health of the Australian people improved markedly, contempt these evolution of health, Australia
at the beginning of the twenty-first century is defined and characterised by significant health
associated inequalities (Delaney, 2018). Health inequalities in Australia includes the morbidity,
health behaviours of individuals, risk factors associated with health services and facilities use is a
statistical references that documents the morbidity and morbidity associated inequalities by
region-level socioeconomic disadvantages, equivalenced household incomes, and associated
education and occupation among infants and children, young adults, working-aged adults and
elderly people for the time periods 1989-90, 1995 and 2001. This report is the second in as series
of the inequalities which mainly focusses on varied aspects of health inequalities in Australia.
Other reports in the series mainly assesses the health inequalities in mortality and the
measurement of socioeconomic orientation and position in aggregation of people health.
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The Australian health care system entails major challenges and they include the
following: there is an ageing population and inclining demand on the health services (Dossetor
and et. al., 2019). The ageing population majorly impacts the health care system and health care
within the nation as they are the most vulnerable population of the nation. The major health care
challenge within the nation includes the health inequality among Australians. Health inequalities
are unfair and inevitable divergence in the health care system across the masses and population,
and between different group within the society of the nation. These entail how long masses are
likely to love, the associated health conditions they may experience and the health care that is
available to them (Tiwari and et. al., 2018). Despite this, the health gains have not been
equivalently shared among the people of the every group. At the beginning of the twenty-first
century, there were appreciable and goodly health related inequalities between populations and
other associated subgroups of the people of Australia.
The other challenge to health care in the very nation for the mental health. Mental health
involves the emotional, psychological and related social balance and well-being of an individual
(Graham and et. al., 2019). This majorly impacts the thinking skills, how they feel, and act. This
chiefly determines how to handle distresses and stresses and making healthy choices in life.
Mental health is important and significant at each stage of life from the very childhood and the
adolescence via adulthood. The most prevalent mental health disorders and associated illness in
Australia can be depression, anxiety due to stresses within the individual and different group of
ages. In addition, depression, anxiety and the substances use disorders (ABS 2008) are the most
rife mental illness within the nation. Another perception into the mental health and associated
well-being of people of Australians is provided by varied approaches of the psychological
impairments. Psychological distresses can be majorly described as an acerbic feelings and
emotions that are accompanied wit the mental illness. The very impairment can majorly affect an
individual's level of functionalities within the surrounding they are accounted to.
This efficiently interferes with the activities and events of the daily living of an individual
(Jonnagaddala and et. al., 2021). The mental illness impacts the negative opinions and views of
the environment of an individual. Psychological distress is majorly and commonly assessed
using the psychological scale which is based on the questions about the negative and emotional
states where the individual has faced and experienced the circumstances in the past one month.
It is evident that there are group of population who have experienced higher costs of mental
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illness and associated mental distresses than the other have majorly experienced. There are the
indigenous group of people within the nation such as Aboriginals and Torres Islander people
who have majorly suffered the mental distress difficulties and this has impacted their lives
heavily. Behavioural conditions are associated with the mental distresses and they lead the
behaviours of the individuals. Behaviour conditions are mostly seen in females as compared to
the males of the nation with a percentage of 25%.
Mental illness impacts the Australians either directly or indirectly as they are more
proficient in causing other associated illnesses with the mental distresses. Mental illness can
majorly vary in severity from person to person and this can also be episodic in different
individual with regards to nature (Lim and et. al., 2019). One of the 5 Australians effectively
experiences mental illness, say in a year. The most of the people may be mildly affected or
moderate. It is computed that around 5% or 8,00,000 people have a severe mental distress and
associated mental illnesses, of which 5,00,000 people have suffered episodic mental illnesses in
the nation. In addition, the other have persistent mental illnesses and other mental associated
illnesses. The most common mental illness in the country Australia are the anxiety disorders and
other associated affective disorders and the substance uses in the nation. Anxiety disorders are
the most common among all the other mental illnesses in the nation with 14.4% of Australians
with age group of 16-85 who are majorly experiencing the anxiety disorders each year, which is
more than twice the rate of depressive diseases and illnesses.
1 in each 5 Australians which is about 4 million people mostly suffers from mental illness
in a given year. In addition, almost half of the population has greatly suffered from mental
impairment at some time in their life and they were vulnerable due to that condition. There are
many types of mental illnesses (Malbon and et. al., 2019). The most common is considered to be
the depression, anxiety and other substance use diseases. Nevertheless, while stress is a normal
emotion (which is at times adjuvant), when an individual experiences the ongoing, prolonged
stress conditions, this then majorly impacts their every day body functioning. This can then
ultimately turn into the anxiety disorders. As stress is a both normal and a harmful experience,
anxiety disorder can be mostly and regularly misunderstood and is considered as underestimated
impairment, contempt being the most common. Affective disorders (which is affective and 6.2%
of Australians who are aged between 16-85 experiences affective disorders each year) are more
easily understood and accepted within the community (Nittari and et. al., 2020). In addition,
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people out there in the nation are mostly very comfortable in disclosing the fact that they are
suffering with the very disorder and because of them stigma is declined. People are more likely
to look for professional aid for affective mental disorders than the people who are suffering from
anxiety or substance use disorders.
The challenges mainly derives from the contemporary health associated disorders
(Sibthorpe and et. al., 2018). The challenges within the nation derives from the following:
alterations in sociology and disease structure as the population epoch, and the encumbrance of
the chronic illness effectively intensifies. Inclining costs of the mental illness treatment advances
and the need to assure there are comprehensive, cost effective and transparent processes for
evaluating health associated technology advancements. The health care challenges includes the
difficulties with the health workforce supplies and associated services (Stewart and et. al., 2021).
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is being conferred that the Health care is the development of
health through with prevention, diagnosis, disease related treatment, their improvement, the
associated disease curative standard, illness, injuries and other related corporal and mental vitiate
in people and population within the nation. Health care is efficiently viscus by the health care
providers and other associated health care professionals with other coalition health fields. High-
quality health precaution aids in orifice both major and minor disorders in individual and also
evolves the attribute and quality of life of masses. Apprehending that carry through the stakes in
health related services and facilities particularly for Indigenous Australians, they sooner or later
needs more than just thriving the health care services within the state. As they are indigenous
species, they should be taken care of with extreme care and attention. The Australian health care
system encompasses stellar challenges and they involves an ageing population and inclining
demand on the health services. Mental health among the population has majorly impacted
population within the nation.
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