Political Process and Socio Economic Factors (Mental Health and AOD)

Running Head: HEALTHCARE 1
Political Process and Socio Economic Factors
(Mental Health and AOD)

HEALTHCARE 2
There have been growing concerns relating to the mental health problems in different
parts of the world. One such country is Australia, where the mental health has become the
serious concern or issue. Mental health has been considered as the key driver in the economic
participation and the productivity of Australia and therefore it has the high level of the potential
towards the impact of the income and the living standards. Moreover the socio economic factors
are one of the key drivers in moving the problem of the mental health. These factors have been
outlined below in the detailed manner. Promoting mental health and awareness in AOD have
been on the political agenda in Australia for more than a decade (Julian, Bartkowiak-Théron,
Hallam & Hughes, 2017).
The mental health policy program landscape in Australia can be observed in the light of
the most recent development which is the Council of the Australian Government has made the
investment in the sector of the mental health reform to date. Though the first national mental
health plan was launched in the year 1993 it’s been a continuous initiative that keeps on moving
as the years pass by. The second national mental health program was helpful in identifying the
mental health promotion. As Australia is a federated system there are certain responsibilities of
the jurisdictional nature that require necessary rules to comply with and within this rules there
shall be a supervision of the implementation of the mental health at the state and the territory
level. This entire amalgamation is largely dependent on the balancing between the political
priorities at the national and the local level and the differing constituent bases. This can be
understood in a better manner with the help of an example where the Australian Government
provides the funds to the practitioners and the state and the territory government supports to the
hospitals and the health services (Fisher, Baum, MacDougall, Newman, McDermott & Phillips,
2016).