Hierarchy and Power in Australian Healthcare System
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Running head: HIERARCHY AND POWERHIERARCHY AND POWER IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
HIERARCHY AND POWER 1The graph of healthcare system development and progression has increased largely due tothe advancement in the researches that has been conducted over years by renowned scientists.Their effective hard work provides evidence based approaches and procedures to handle adversediseases and disorders. Besides the Biomedical model of healthcare, sociological andpsychological model of healthcare holds its importance nowadays (Cockerham, 2014).Furthermore, for a large number of cases, occurrence of health disorder is due to the some socialfactors like social pressure, peers attitude, relationship problems and so on. Hence, healthcareprofessionals need to consider those factors as well to propose unique and effective healthcareinterventions (Greenhalgh, 2013). However, working in healthcare system nowadays is not sosimple, there are factors like power struggle, and hierarchical disputes exists that makes thehealthcare system difficult for both patients and professionals (Subramanian & Ramanathan,2012). This essay will discuss and portray the different power and hierarchical disputes and willenlighten about the advantages and disadvantages of power and hierarchical issues with respectto different stakeholder of healthcare system. Application of sociological concepts in critical analysis:There are different type of interaction exists between health condition at different socio-economic levels and the society from which these different patients belong. Sociology of healthand diseases help in examining those interactions (Melchiorre et al., 2013). There are differentcharacteristics of social life and any of them can act as one of the prime domains to affect thehealth, moreover affecting mortality and morbidity. Different social organizations like school,workplace, and social relationships like family, close friends aids to health and illness ofassociated person. Sociology of health and ailments focuses on the sociological factors that cancause different type of illness and diseases whereas sociology of medicinal science completely
HIERARCHY AND POWER 2depends on the relationship between practitioner and the patient and the importance of suchhealthcare professionals in society (Drummond et al., 2015). Sociological studies believes thathealth imparities occur not only due to biological factors but also due to occurrence of otherfactors such as income inequality, lifestyles, food habits, environment and housing, healthbehaviors, childhood development, education and level of literacy, social connectedness andsupport and many more (Berkman, Kawachi & Glymour, 2014). For example, if a person issuffering from obesity then there are different factors to add to his condition such as his dietplan, his physical activities and others. Therefore, to understand the nature of disease and thelevel of its intensity, it is important to consider the social factors while diagnosing the disease. Why Biomedical model is not considered :Biomedical model is a healthcare model that provides scientific measure for everydisease. According to this model of healthcare, human being is a body and this need to be freefrom any type of disease or disorders such as defects, disabilities and pain (Deacon, 2013).Hence, according to this model, anything that affects the healthy human body is a biologicalfactor and reason of every disease is biological. Every individual who is sick is considered to bea body with disease and those bodies can be handled, explored and treated with the use of mind,knowledge and skills or techniques of the healthcare professional (Carayon et al., 2014). Tohandle such patients efficiently, medical professionals need to be appointed with properknowledge and the treatment condition and environment need to be technologically equipped andpositive to enhance wellbeing. Biomedical model of health is established in modern westernsociety therefore, it neglects the traditional healthcare practices and favors the biological factorsto treat disease (Pincus et al., 2016). Healthcare professionals undergo a training session of manyyears to gain knowledge about the nuances of healthcare profession and to understand the
HIERARCHY AND POWER 3symptoms and help people to recover those symptoms quickly and efficiently. However, theprime disadvantage of this factor is lack of care (Chow et al., 2012). The patient is only seen as abody full of disease and not as an individual hence, the relationship between the patient and thepractitioner gets affected. Furthermore, the authorities of such healthcare organizations has apower gradient and hierarchical division along with the healthcare professionals. Doctor andother practitioners of the organization holds bigger power than that of the registered nurses andhence, this gradient affects the care giving process both positively and negatively. Biomedicalmodel with the help of power gradient provides the exact treatment to recover the patient fromthe disease. However, due to the lack of care in the care giving process, interventions includingholistic approaches are preferred. Interventions in which biomedical model of healthcare ispresent along with the sociological factors, are preferred. Consideration of social, psychologicaland environmental factor is important as these aids in the biological factors efficiently. Differentfood and additional habits such as smoking, unhealthy diets, less or no exercise affects the healthin presence of different cultural and social factors (Kuhlmann et al., 2013). Even socio-economicstatus including poverty, poor housing and workplace related stress, pollution and life style aidsto the disease condition. Hence, nowadays many researchers considers the biomedical model inthe presence of socio-psychological influence to plan interventions for patient’s treatment(Aveyard, 2014). Hierarchy in Australian healthcare and key concepts Hierarchy in Australian healthcare system is not so new and this primitive work culturehas made the healthcare service as one of the best in the world. Starting from the medicalfacilities and healthcare interventions, the highly professional healthcare experts are divided intohierarchical structure and every Australian organization follows the levels strictly (Shearer et al.,
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