Healthcare in Australia

This article discusses the impact of social issues on health, economic, social, and political factors affecting healthcare delivery, and the strengths and weaknesses of Australia's healthcare system. It also covers the current health policy agenda, primary healthcare principles, and non-western approaches in nursing practice.

Running head: HEALTHCARE IN AUSTRALIA
Healthcare in Australia
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note:

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Answer to the question number 13:
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 Hostility
 Stress
 Depression
 Pessimism
 Seclusion
 Irregular eating
 Substance abuse
 Suicidal tendencies
 Nervous system
 Digestive system
 Immune system
Answer to the question number 14:
Housing is one of the social issues that can affect the health and illness of a person.
People living in poor conditions can have a significant risk of developing illness. These
conditions are toxins, mold, and pests. Among socio cultural issues, religious and spiritual
values can also be unfavourable to health. Due to their religious and spiritual preferences,
people might not want to avail medical treatment (Bonevski et al., 2014).
Answer to the question number 15:
Economic, social and political factors can have detrimental effects on health care
delivery. With respect to economic factors, poverty can be reason for a person’s death even
for curable disease. Due to financial constraints a person cannot afford the insurance or health
care services. Additionally, an example of social factor is that the social inequities across
various demographic groups. Structural and societal resources inequities can be the difference
between life and death (Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014).
Answer to the question number 16:
Strengths Weakness
 Strong general practice
infrastructure
 GP’s lack of access to the computer
and laptop specially in Victorian

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 Australia’s healthcare system is one
of the best in the world specially in
case of childcare vaccination and
immunization
 Inequity among various social
groups.
Answer to the question number 17:
Issues on the current health policy agenda in Australia are described below:
1. Rapid advancement in healthcare technologies have increased the financial burden on
Australian government.
2. Another issue for the Australian health policy is that inequality of health and equity
issues across various demographic groups. For instance, life expectancy of indigenous
Australian is much lower than the non-indigenous Australian.
Answer to the question number 18:
Four principles of primary healthcare in Australia are mentioned below:
1. Maximum participation, full community control and genuine engagement of local
indigenous community.
2. Delivery, management and detection of essential healthcare programs like chronic
disease prevention and child and maternal health.
3. Working with other health related service providers in collaborative manner.
4. Engaging local community members for multidisciplinary approach ("Department of
Health | Principles for success for primary health care services", 2018).
Answer to the question number 19:
Characteristics Selective PHC Comprehensive PHC
Main Aim Selective primary healthcare Comprehensive primary

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framework’s main objective
is provide the healthcare
benefits selectively instead
of implementing it globally.
healthcare framework is a
global economic initiative
which will profits all
countries specially amongst
poor countries
Answer to the question number 20:
Wellness can be defined as absence of disease and illness can be defined as presence
of disease. Illness model of care is where medical practitioner just provides medical
necessities of the patient according to the disease and do not consult or advice about how to
prevent those diseases. Wellness model is where medical practitioner will not only provides
the medical necessities but will also consult about the effect of good diet, sleep and stress free
life. They will provide information about how to prevent a disease instead of just cure it
(Cabassa et al., 2018).
Answer to the question number 21:
In Australia, since colonisation, nursing practice has been performed in contemporary
manner which is predominantly western. Recently, the need of non-western approach have
come to fore due to various programs relating aboriginal people. Medical professionals
having better knowledge in aboriginal culture is needed to provide holistic care to aboriginal
peoples. Nurses are in the forefront of any medical examination, so non-western approaches
in nursing practice has become vital (Watts et al., 2017).

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