Healthcare Strategy | Assessment 1

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Introduction
Primary healthcare is defined as the strategies that is adopted by the healthcare system
to fulfil the need or requirement of the people all the world during their complete course of
life. The healthcare system that have adopted a strong and influential primary healthcare
(PHC) strategy will aim to achieve improved, efficient and enhanced health outcome of the
patient (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019). In this study, the health issue of
poor immunisation is considered as lager number of children living in poor socio-economic
background do not receive proper vaccination that in turn leads to high mortality rate. The
current key strategies to deal with the global issue of immunisation will be addressed using
the Australian primary healthcare strategic framework 2, which highlights the strategy of
“improve access and reduce inequity” (Www1.health.gov.au, 2019).
Epidemiological factors
The rate of immunisation is decreasing in Australia at an alarming rate particularly in
the rural areas where the general population are completely unaware of the benefits if
immunisation and how vaccination will protect their child from any major health issues. The
different factors that result in this issue are lack of social support, family dysfunction, lack of
awareness, poor socio-economic background, lack of medical services and facilities, rising
parity and negligence (Smith et al., 2017). The above mentioned factors are majorly
responsible for increasing the risk of poor immunisation. The social determinants of health
that result in increased level of poor immunisation among children are lack of social justice
and equity. The people belonging to the poor and rural areas of Australia do not have proper
access to healthcare services and are even unaware of the benefits of vaccination. Hence,
using the strategic framework: “improve access and reduce inequity” will be helpful for the
people because the socially and economically disadvantaged people will receive assistance

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from this framework that will also aim to reduce the increased level of inequality and deliver
best healthcare access and support to them (Li et al., 2016).
Social determinants of health
Poor immunisation among the rural areas is one of the most prevailing health issue
that is affecting large number of children within Australia. The social determinants of health
is considered as the factors that are responsible for increasing the prevalence rate of the
health issue such as equity and social justice. Lack of education, poor access to the healthcare
facilities and lack of money is also considered as the major factors that result in poor
immunisation rate (Pearce et al., 2015). The people belonging to the poor socio-economic
areas are unaware of the benefits of immunisation and have no knowledge regarding which
vaccines should be applied to their children that will reduce the risk of any severe health
long-term health issues. The social determinants considered under the health equity are
education, community resilience, building personality and sufficient money that will aim to
develop s healthy environment with better lifestyle and health condition. Since, the people
residing in the rural areas lack effective access to the healthcare services that will help their
children and their family members to reduce the risk of poor health outcome (Arat et al.,
2019).
Key principles of Primary Healthcare (PHC)
Primary healthcare (PHC) is responsible for promoting wellness and health to the
people who are either suffering from any injury or bad health condition and deliver the best
available healthcare services to those people (World Health Organization, 2019). There are
five primary guiding principles included in the primary healthcare (PHC) that will aim to
reduce the poor immunisation rate in Australia. In order to address the issue of poor
immunisation, the strategic outcome 2 was chosen in this study that will aim to improve the