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Study on Inequality in Healthcare

   

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Running head: INEQUALITY IN HEALTHCAREInequality in healthcareName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1INEQUALITY IN HEALTHCAREThe healthcare among Australian population is improving remarkably. Despite of theseimprovements, the population is characterized by significant inequalities in healthcare (Carey etal., 2013). This issue is challenging the common good and dignity of humans affecting thenursing practice now and in the future. Inequality in healthcare raises questions whether there issustainability in the delivery of healthcare and that is resulting in systemic tendency of growinghealth care inequality. Although, a country cannot renounce to protect and defend the fundamental healthcareequality, commons can recognize to provide equitable healthcare services to people. Equality inhealthcare denotes caring within the society and central to nursing profession, they care forothers best suited for reduction of disparities (Chin et al., 2012). As a nurse, it is one’s duty toprovide equal treatment and rebuild the concept of caring giving an important dimension to themoral principle of human dignity and realization of common good. There is increasing disparity in health behaviour, morbidity, healthcare services providinga statistical reference documenting morbidity and mortality by socioeconomic disadvantage,education, occupation and income. Australian healthcare is battling an intense fight againstinequality not only among the rich and poor, but also among the rural and urban communitiesstruggling to gain access to high quality healthcare services (Durey & Thompson, 2012). This isresulting in marginalization of people with poor health outcomes and increase in burden ofdisease. The healthcare landscape is unfavourable burdened with demographic factors to reachthe huge geographical land masses due to shortage of resources. The current allocation of healthcare services is heavily focused on the urban communitiesat the expense of people from different cultural backgrounds. This is the emergence of glaring

2INEQUALITY IN HEALTHCAREhealth inequalities rendering ‘haves’ for urban and ‘not haves’ for rural people access tohealthcare services. This lack of access to healthcare services and misallocation has translatedinto alarming morbidity and mortality rates among the people from varied cultural backgrounds(Ingram & Franco, 2012). The above findings reminds that nursing profession is important acting as preservation ofcommon good in reducing health disparities. The gaining progress in nursing practice hasalienated from need of the oppressed groups and seduced by scientific model that is not usedthrough best judgment of human truth about illness and suffering. Literature suggests that there is unequal treatment, lack of access to healthcare services,linguistic and cultural incompetence with depleted resources are the economic and socialdeterminants of health (Komaric, Bedford & van Driel, 2012). Nursing profession has the abilityand rich heritage to advocate healthy society through equality that is established on the pillars ofcommon good realization and social justice. The above statement is alarming and there is competing arguments whether commongood is served or not promoting equal healthcare for everyone and maintenance of commongood. From the nursing perspective, as the social factors are the root causes for healthcareinequality, it requires nursing profession advocacy for the promotion of common good andhuman dignity (Faden et al., 2013). Discriminations prevailing in the healthcare system are due to the economic and socialdeterminants involving relationships. Therefore, nursing profession can help to address thehealthcare inequality issue and realize common good as it is build on relationships being primary

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