Health status and outcome among Australia and Kenya

Running head: HEALTH STATUS AND OUTCOME AMONG AUSTRALIA AND
KENYA
Health status and outcome among Australia and Kenya
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HEALTH STATUS AND OUTCOME AMONG AUSTRALIA AND KENYA
Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Health status of chosen countries:..............................................................................................2
Differences risk factors in and between countries:....................................................................3
Locational Disparity:..................................................................................................................5
Key interventions and health services by Australian and Kenyan government:........................5
Ethnic/Racial Disparity:.............................................................................................................6
Socioeconomic Disparity:..........................................................................................................7
Steps to reduce disparity:...........................................................................................................7
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................8
References:.................................................................................................................................9

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HEALTH STATUS AND OUTCOME AMONG AUSTRALIA AND KENYA
Introduction:
This paper will attempt to compare the health status and outcome of two
demographics, Australia and Kenya. The primary aim of the paper is to explore and identify
the variables that affect the health status and outcome in different demographic settings, the
challenges and issues and recommendations to address the challenges and issues. The
commonwealth of Australia can be described as a Sovereign country encompassing the
mainland of the Australian continent (Aihw.gov.au 2018). The population of the Australian
mainland is 25 million and the nation is highly urbanized in accordance with the western
society which is the predominant population of the country. Although the Australia also is
native land to a large community of indigenous Australians who had been predominant
population of the Australian lands for about 60000 years before the British colonization of the
mainland in the late 18th centuries. The society of the aboriginals face a considerable
discrimination which is reflected in the disparities that are apparent in the health status and
outcomes of the population.
On the other hand, Republic of Kenya is an African country with its capital or largest
city being in Nairobi. The population of this country is approximately 48 million for 581309
km2 of mainland. The nation has a diverse geographical and topographical characteristics,
which affects the lifestyle of the inhabitants as well and is reflected in their health status or
outcome. This essay will compare and contrast the Health status/outcomes, risk factors, key
health services and interventions, locational disparities, and ethnic/racial disparities and/or
socioeconomic disparities in an attempt to recommend possible strategies to improve the
status (Aho.afro.who.int 2018).

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HEALTH STATUS AND OUTCOME AMONG AUSTRALIA AND KENYA
Health status of chosen countries:
Considering the health status of the nation Australia, it has to be mentioned that
Australia is a high income country and the considerably better socio-economic condition of
the population is reflected in the good health status of citizens. It has to be mentioned in this
context that the nation has been ranked second on the United Nations Development
Programme’s Human Development Index. It has to be mentioned that the life expectancy for
the males in the Australia is third highest and for the females is seventh highest (Aihw.gov.au
2018). However, even with the overall good health status, there are considerable challenges,
the disparity experienced by the aboriginals is the most important aspect of challenge.
Smoking is the largest preventable cause of death for the nation leading to 7.8% of mortality.
Although, hypertension and obesity are also considerable co-morbid challenges facing the
public health sector of Australia. The nation spends around 10% of its total gross domestic
product, and the funding or expenditure of the nation is managed by the Medicare, the
universal health care scheme, making health care more accessible and affordable for
everyone (Aihw.gov.au 2018).
On the other hand, for Kenya the health care industry is dominated by privatized
sectors in contrast with the government funded and controlled health care system of
Australia. As discussed by Who.int (2018), the private health care industries and business are
the primary health acre providers for the entire nation, even for the impoverished groups of
the nation, who are the 20% of the total population of Kenya. The strengths of the private
health care system is the strong branding, focussed patient centred care and value addition
(Olack et al. 2015). There are different levels of care, community based, dispensaries,
specialty health centres, sub-county hospitals, and national referral hospitals. The diseases of
poverty dominate the health adversities of the nation which is linked to the economic
diversity and unequal wealth distribution of the nation. The most common diseases include