Impact of Neoliberalism on Healthcare in Australia

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Introduction
The neoliberal reforms tend towards some of the deep changes in the system of the
healthcare through out the world over the account of the free market emphasis rather than the
inalienable right towards health. According to Bell & Green (2016) people belonging to the
discriminated and the marginalized community are the disadvantaged population y these reforms
for their increased need of the healthcare and the low socio economic status. In the year 1978,
the WHO endorsed the visionary approaches towards the services of the primary health care.
With the comprehensive vision of the primary health care towards the related services to the
organization of the society, the organization called for the innovative economic order in the
international basis. This would furthermore initiate in help towards the benefit of the developing
nation with the empowerment of the democratic participation in the health with some of the
greater attention towards the environmental and the social contexts increasing the rate of disease
(Miller & Orchard, 2014). The aim of the essay is for the illustration of the health care system of
Australia and the underlying influences of the politics. The essay aims to explain the hierarchy
and the power having intrinsic to the neo liberalism that effects on the delivery of the health care
system across the community of Australia. The essay shed light on the health outcomes of the
Indigenous Australians.
Sociological perspective and neoliberalism
The concept of neo liberalism includes the political ideology that extends to market
relations within the social, political and the economic spheres. It is the idea regarding the less
interference of government in the free market which is the central goal of the politics. The

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concept furthermore includes the notion that the state should limit itself for the protection of the
private property and the basic enforcement of law.
According to Baum (2016) the concept of the neoliberalism emphasizes of the rule
related to the universal law, the institutional reforms, the requirement for the property rights and
the human removing obstacles to the markets. With the current economic crisis, the policies of
the neo liberal approaches have come under the scrutiny since the government of Australia have
been adopting some of the measures for the decrease of their expenditure of the budget.
According to Mitchell & MacLeod (2014) the policies related to the neoliberal offensive had a
major disruptive impact over the social cohesion together with the lives and the morale of the
people particularly the community who is mostly vulnerable, the indigenous population. In the
context of the neoliberalism, the people from the dis advantaged community are negatively
evaluated. There has been developments of series of policies within the areas of the health and
the labor promoting some of the negative agenda affecting the lives of the indigenous people and
causing deprivation, stigmatization and insecurity.
According to Baum & Fisher (2014) one of the possible explanation regarding the rise in
the inequality among the health care facilities among the Indigenous Australians is the rise of the
concept of the neoliberalism; the effect of the policies regarding the privatization of the
economy. The author in is research illustrated the factor how neoliberalism increases the
inequality and the health care in Australia by facilitating the non indigenous population and
proving very selected facilities to the targeted indigenous population in Australia.
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The policies and the ideas related to neoliberalism aligns with the key concepts regarding
the discourse of the development regarding the community development and the associated
institution regarding the non-government organization. Coté (2016) connects the community
development of the neo liberalism and the rise of the inequality with the term regarding the
inclusive neoliberalism. Within the neo liberal idea regarding the development of the
community, the empowerments is being conceptualized regarding the participation within the
global and the local markets. Furthermore the vulnerability is being added by the formal legal
rights rather than the welfare and the responsibilities of the citizens regarding the moral
obligations and the working community.
As per the research study by Hartmann (2016) the concept of neoliberalism can be
explained as the contemporary form regarding the economic imperialism that has been
accompanied by the rising level of the inequalities among the indigenous Australian within the
parameter of economic social, environmental and the political capital. The research studies
furthermore illustrated the remote Indigenous settlements in Australia that operates in the
extreme economic context. This furthermore rises from the limited economic opportunities, the
small settlement sizes and the large distance among them regarding the high level of mobility
among the settlements (Artaraz & Calestani, 2015). The impact of the policies related to the neo
liberalism targets the lack of the remote Australian settlements. Furthermore the various
economic context and the residents of these settlements experiences the standards of living and
the institutional arrangements resembling in the Indigenous Communities. Thus it can be
summarized that the neo liberalism effects negatively on the health care outcomes of the
Indigenous Australians. The context of the privatization of all the public and the government
actions are challenging the policies and the strategies that has been developed by the government