Nursing : In-equality in Healthcare

Running head: NURSING
In-Equality in Healthcare
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Abstract
Background: Australia is experiencing in-equalities in the healthcare
system.
Objective: The main objective of this report is critical analysis of the
prevailing health-related inequality in the Australian health-care system.
Design: Systematic review of literature (qualitative analysis)
Method: The search of the literary articles from the two electronic
databases CINAHL and PubMed by the use of the keywords and the
including papers that are published within the last 5 years
Results: The results indicated that level of health-related inequality is
prevalent in the Australian healthcare system. The reasons behind this
health in-equality are high cost of the healthcare system and lack of
proper digitalization of healthcare in the rural areas of Australia.
Conclusion: In order to improve the inequality status in Australian
healthcare system, proper implementation of the aboriginal nurses and
digitalization of healthcare is important.
Keywords: “Australia” AND “Healthcare system” AND “Health-related
inequality”

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Introduction
Poor health related outcome increases the likelihood of the overall
poverty level by decreasing an ability of a person to work and thus
imparting the overall costs that are associated with receiving the overall
medical treatment (Callander, Fox and Lindsay 2019). The following
assignment aims to critically analyse the reasons underlying the health-
related inequality in the Australian healthcare system. In order to answer
the same, the report will conduct systematic review of literature by
searching articles in the electronic databases.
Objective
The main objective of this report is critical analysis of the prevailing
health-related inequality in the Australian health-care system.
Methods
The study will used systematic review of articles. Oh (2016) stated
that systematic review of articles help in the generation of evidence-
based practice guidelines in nursing and thus helping to improve the
quality of care.

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PRISMA 2009 Flow Diagram
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Records after duplicates removed
(n = 300 )
Records excluded
(n = 225 )
Inappropriate titles (not
matching with scope of
research
Records screened
(n = 75)
Full-text articles
excluded, with
reasons
(n = 60)
Reasons: Not
conducted in
Australia:
Studies included for
critical analysis (CASP)
(n = 15 )
Iden
tific
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n
Full-text articles
assessed for
eligibility
(n = 15 )
Studies included in
systematic review
(n = 10 )
Records identified through
database CINAHL
(n = 235)
Additional records identified
through PubMed
(n = 325 )