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Healthcare in South Australia Assignment

   

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Running head: HEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAHEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note

1HEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAHealthcare in South AustraliaThe Southern Australia provides an improved health care to the public by providingeffective leadership in health reforms, medical research and public health services. The southAustralian health services provides several important services to the SA community, whichincludes- Public hospitals, environmental health policies, delivery of metropolitan and publichealth, epidemiology, control of communicable diseases, excellent pathology services,emergency and ambulance services, organ donation services (Britt et al. 2012). The SA dentalservice also provides a vast range of dental services for children as well as the adults. The dentalservice is publicly funded and also works in partnership with the University of Adelaide to trainand educate a large number of State’s dental work force. It has been reported that all children andall young people under the 18 years of age are eligible of attending the school Dental Serviceregardless of the parents or guardians (Chrisopoulos, Harford and Ellershaw. 2016). Adults areeligible for getting the basic dental service. The older adults can have a current concession cardor a Department of Veterans affairs Pensioner concession card. If one is not an Australianresident then he or she can access the dental care service at his or her own cost.The SA health collaborates with other government agencies to provide an appropriatecare service to the consumers. The infrastructure directorate of SA helps in the strategic planningand the evaluation of the requirements of the public health infrastructure system. It providesleadership for the health assets of the SA (Corallo et al.2014). It is responsible for deliveringsecurity services to the SA health. The South Australia has taken up the health in all policies. ‘The health in all policies’ actually has its origin in Europe. It has been implemented in the latestEuropean health strategies and it has been implemented highly by the all the countries of the

2HEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAEuropean Union. Dental problems are very common among the population of South Australia.As the population of the older adult is high in this state, the oral health status of this state has tobe focused on. Oral health diseases are also a major financial cost to the south Australiancommunity. Australia’s first National oral health plan (National plan) has been endorsed by theAustralian ministry of health conference in order to make oral health an important part of thegeneral health, in order to help out the common people to access appropriate and affordableservices. Researches and oral health evaluation is made in order to ensure an essential andsufficiently skilled workforce and communities that effectively promote good oral health.This approach has said to improve the outcomes in patient. HiAP has been introduced inSouth Australia to extend its vow to joined-up government. Importantly, the South AustralianHealth in All Policies approach stretches the European HiAP work for strengthening the focus onimproved health care through the achievement of the goals, and contributing towards bridgingthe gap between theory and practice.Health care in AustraliaHealth care in Australia is mainly provided by government hospitals, private physicians.Half of the cost of the medical services is served by either the government agencies, or paidprivately by the clients or provided by the private insurance agencies and the rest is paid by theclients privately. It is known that the Australian government spends 9% of its GDP in healthcare, which can be close to many OECD countries but is much less than U.S (Duckett andWillcox. 2015). The funding of health care via government is brought about by the Medicareschemes, which provides universal access to a wide range of health services. This thing isbrought about by general taxation system. The Australian Medicare system has strengthened the

3HEALTH CARE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAhealth indicators and has helped to increase the life expectancy rate among the Australians.There are a number of health services in the New South Wales. They are- NSW ambulance, goodhealth infrastructure, Health share NSW providing corporate and information technologicalservices health, NSW health pathology, E- health NSW, which is an organization that provides astate wise leadership on the delivery, shape and management of the information counciltechnology led healthcare (Duckett and Willcox. 2015). Other services that are provided areproper dental health clinics, local health districts and specialty network. There are several pillarorganizations in order to review the clinical variation and support the clinical network in thedevelopment of the good service. There is a cancer institute and bureau of health information andan agency of clinical innovation. The health care services provided in Queensland is provided by government and nongovernment organizations, professionals, private companies and voluntary groups (Duckett andWillcox. 2015). It has been reported that the Queensland health provides with free publichospital services across 15 service districts. In Tasmania there is a wide range of government health care services. The government iscontinuously striving to provide a good patient service. But it has to be noted that the Tasmanianeeds more funding when it is coming to health. It needed more improved care community,discharge care and training in the medical students (Devaux and De Looper. 2012). The health care system is Victoria provides a wide range health care benefit to theVictoria. In Victoria, the treatment in the public hospital is free whereas in Private it is to be paidby the consumer depending on the type of insurance benefit one select. The ambulatory careservice is provided by the Victorian government. The emergency department is efficient in

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