Insights of Post-Modernist Perspectives on Health Practice

Question 1
What insights do post-modernist perspectives provide and what might this mean for health
practice?
Post-modernist is a prominent perspective which tends to state that, how society has
progressed over the era which is beyond modernity. Post-modernist cultural values have
affected the medical care and the relationship between the physician and the patient.
Postmodernism is considered to be as the method of sociology which puts emphasis on the
uncertainty and quick change within the society. This is a perspective which tends to mainly
focus on the reality of the person, denies statement and also claims to be true for all the
individuals. The post-modernist perspectives tends to argue that, because of endless changing
and choice the culture and work. Providing high degree of significant medical care to make
the accurate diagnosis and also focuses on establishing prominent rapport with the patients.
The post- modernism states that, the illness experience is not linear (Bentley and et.al., 2016).
Experiences of the individual person is a myriad of cultural, social, economic and physical
context. Postmodernism attitude within the healthcare is prevalent. They tend to highly
believe in the individual responsibility to attain health, hold consumerist value, rejecting
medical authority, preferring natural products over various chemical drugs.
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Question 2
Despite increases in funding, explain why in Australia, Indigenous health outcomes are still
an issue? Provide examples to illustrate your argument.
The indigenous group of people are increasingly facing various health issues which mainly
includes cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and respiratory disease which results in
unacceptable gap within the life expectancy. The Aboriginal and Torres group of Australia
are usually influenced by the various key social determinants which tends to influence health
of the indigenous group within Australia (Jatrana, Richardson and Pasupuleti, 2018). There
seems to be high degree of increase within the funding, the prevalence of major biomedical
and behavioural health risk factors among the indigenous group of Australia results in poor
health outcomes within Australia. For example, Aboriginal and Torres group of Australia are
indulged within various behavioural risk like poor nutrition, smoking, physical inactivity,
excessive amount of alcohol consumption and domestic violence. are considered to be key
risk factors which largely result in poor health outcomes. The indigenous people have low
education, poor socio- economic, social isolation, family breakdown, poverty, debt, crime, etc
also results in lower health outcomes among Aboriginal people of Australia (Smith, Adams
and Bonson, 2018). Increase in funding to improve the health outcomes of the patient does
not influence the positive health outcomes of the patient because of the daily unethical
behavioural practice which impacts the health outcomes of the patients.

Question 3
Psychiatry can be viewed as an institute of social control. Draw on sociological theories and
examples to discuss this statement.
The psychiatrist who tends to work within the judicial group which helps in improve the
sanity and medical condition of the patient. The psychiatry is considered to be as the key
form of the social control. The medical social control is a way where the medicine tends to
function in order to secure high degree of adherence to the social norms by eliminating,
minimising and normalising deviant behaviour. The societal control is mainly associated with
the political and societal mechanisms which tends to regulate group behaviour and individual
to attain compliance and conformity to the rules associated with the society and social group.
The psychiatrist tends to identify two set of basic signifier of social control which mainly
includes informal and formal control (Dean and Green, 2017). The sociological perspective
tends to mainly emphasise on influencing the society with the help of relationship, social
contexts , statuses and roles. The chemical and genetics imbalance within the brain cause
mental illness. The interpersonal theory tends to play one of the key significant role in
treating the mental illness and has been used by the psychiatrist. This theory is useful in
determining the genesis of the psychiatric disorder in the key significant manner.
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Question 4
What are the key benefits and limitations of e-health?
The e- health is referred to as the use of communication and information technology within
the healthcare to provide digital health services at a greater and wider scale. The key benefits
of the e- health is that, it is useful in improving the communication within the healthcare
practitioners and patients. It also helps in improving the operational efficiency by reducing
the length of stay and increasing the safety of the patient by reduction in the clinical and
medical adverse events. The e- health has also resulted in the rapid intervention at the time of
critical periods of care which has been facilitated by real time reminders and alerts using
electronic platforms (What is E-health? Its Characteristics, Benefits and Challenges, 2019).
It is considered to be as the secure and cost effective measure within the healthcare system. It
is useful in providing quick degree of access to the patients information and records with the
reduced aAwaworyi Churchill, Farrell and Smyth, 2019mount of paperwork. It also leads to
low degree of medical errors and encouraging better and healthier lifestyles. One of the major
challenge which is mainly linked with the e- health is related with the complex user
experience. It becomes difficult to implement the e- health across various healthcare system
because of complex user experience. Implementation of the e- health is considered to be as
the time consuming process.