Health Law and Ethics Report 2022

Health Law and Ethics

Introduction:
Dental Care in Australia is multilayered system of settings and services, which includes
various private and public providers, which helps in funding activities, regulatory
mechanisms and participants(Willis, Reynolds and Keleher 2016). The regulation,
coordination and governance of dental services in Australia are multifaceted along with
combined responsibilities in every administrative level. Dental services in public sectors
are given by the local, territory and the state government of Australia.
In the year of 2013-14 the overall spending on Dental Health services was $1,717 billion
among which $10.2 billion was spent on recurrent expenditure of dental health(Mossialos
et al 2016). The responsibilities are divided into governmental and non-governmental
organizations along with privately owned insurers and some other individuals those who
pays privately.

Features of Legal System regarding Dental Care Service Delivery:
Australia is a participant of OECD, and its maintains the universal standard for
performance and quality measurement. Along with France and Canada, Australia devotes
lowest amount of currency on dental care services but the annual growth of spending on
dental care during the period of 2009-2013 was the highest.
Australian government provides the best benefits for Medicare and Pharmaceutical
schedule too along with dental. It helps in regulating and supporting insurance for private
dental care services(Molarius et al 2014). It provides a support in monitoring the efficiency,
effectiveness and quality of basic dental care. It publishes the welfare and dental
information statistics through Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It gives an
essential support to health emergencies as well as dental health responses all over the
nation.

Challenges in Health System:
Challenges in the dental health care in Australia includes the following:
i. Growing demand on dental health services..
ii. Growing proportions of teeth decaying and bleeding of gums.
iii. Increasing cost of innovation and medical research.
iv. Utilizing the use of developing dental health technologies
v. Making improved usage of dental health data
vi. Giving response to services in public dental care hospital
The above mentioned challenges will be continuing in coming decades.