Health Care Policy and Planning

This article discusses the core principles of health planning and population planning in Australia. It highlights the importance of community engagement, collaborative approaches, evidence-based practices, and multi-disciplinary team approaches. The article also explains the difference between population planning and health service planning.

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The core principles of the health planning offers accessibility to the high quality primary
health care which is essential to enhance the health status of the people in Australia. It is not easy
to determine the factors which combine to success (Bath & Wakerman, 2015). The important
principles of the health planning linked with the provision of health care within Australia are:
 Engagement of the local community to maximise participation comprising formal
structures of the community control and action of community involvement.
 The collaborative approaches aims primary health care services to work with other
service sectors like housing, other primary health care organizations governmental or
non-governmental and other levels of the health care system specifically hospitals and
specialists (Duckett & Willcox, 2015).
 The delivery of the main primary health care program are essential for the long term
health of the community and these are not bounded to the maternal, child health, chronic
disease detectiona nd mangement.
 The evidence based approach are based on the quality improvment approach and
comprises local community in reorganizinng what is known to work.
 A multi disciplinary team approaches empoys local community members comprising
constant training and support.
 An approach which harmonises with the local Aboriginal’s life and specifically the
organized service delivery.
 An adequate and secure resourcing to concentrate on the management and delivery of the
non-acute care.
The popultion planning focuses on the society as a part of the unit analyis whereas health
service planning aims to improve health services in order to meet need of population. The
population planning aims at improvement of quality life, economic developmment along with the
survival. The health service planning aims to enhance health service delivery to meet the health
needs of population. The population planning is practice of controlling rate of growth of human
population in Australia. It is a regular approach (Conklin, Morris & Nolte, 2015). On the other
side health service planning is a future oriented approach and is a medium to long term
perspective which supports to imrove health of the targeted group of population. The adoption of
the population policy provides a greater degree of certainty to the government planning and

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private enterprise decision making. It deals with different perspectives like immigration, social
welfare, health, education, employment and more (Meurk, Leung, Hall, Head & Whiteford,
2016). The health service planning aims to intend policies for the future perspective and
responses to enhanced health service delivery models and emergency trends in the health service
delivery.

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References
Bath, J., & Wakerman, J. (2015). Impact of community participation in primary health care: what
is the evidence?. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 21(1), 2-8.
Conklin, A., Morris, Z., & Nolte, E. (2015). What is the evidence base for public involvement in
health‐care policy?: results of a systematic scoping review. Health Expectations, 18(2),
153-165.
Duckett, S., & Willcox, S. (2015). The Australian health care system (No. Ed. 5). Oxford
University Press.
Meurk, C., Leung, J., Hall, W., Head, B. W., & Whiteford, H. (2016). Establishing and
governing e-mental health care in Australia: a systematic review of challenges and a call
for policy-focussed research. Journal of medical Internet research, 18(1).