PHC Strategic Framework Australia Case Study 2022

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The National Primary Health Care Strategic Framework is an approach towards
increasing the quality of healthcare settings all across the country through the help of partnership
between the commonwealth, states and territories by the Australian government. It provides a
systematic coordination between the action of commonwealth, states and local government to
ensure a synchronized approach in developing primary healthcare planning and efficient delivery
of service. It focuses on the primary healthcare of the country and targets the ongoing health
issues of Australia (Australian Government Department of Health, 2019).
The strategy chosen from this strategic framework by Standing council on Health (2013),
is the strategic outcome 3: Take action to tackle the social determinants of health and wellbeing
with emphasis on health promotion, prevention, screening and early intervention. This strategy
will be used to decrease the ongoing issue of blood pressure in the population of Australia. The
potential action 3.1 of this strategy will focus on the public health issue in Australia by
addressing the social health determinants including education, social status, and housing, access
to healthcare services, employment and social status. A number of factors are the reason for an
individual’s wellbeing and health that lies outside the system of health. Employment and
education are major opportunities for individuals and families to improve their health and
wellbeing, betterment of infrastructure and roads could be a significant change in being able to
access health care facilities, providing clean water and fresh food with suitable housing can help
in the maintenance of good health and an individual’s literacy and socio economic background
can influence their interaction with the healthcare system (Carey & Crammond, 2015). Potential
action 3.2 focuses on the health related risk factors including alcohol consumption, being idle,
poor dietary habits, unsafe sexual practices, and sun exposure. The commonwealth-state
collaboration for the prevention of health with the help of National Partnership Agreement on

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Preventive Health leverages this action. It works for improving the capability of locals to support
the populations in approaching primary healthcare that includes preventive health, with the other
organizations who are active for these purposes. Australian National Preventive Health Agency
(ANPHA) is also a part of this strategy by supporting its role in identification and development
of best practices for prevention of diseases and health promotion. Pharmacists and community
workers need to participate in this strategy so that they can prevent, screen, and assisting in early
intervention and health self-management (Badland et al., 2014). Potential action 3.3 aims to
increase and evaluate the best intervention of latest technologies that improves home based
monitoring, treatment and support. In this strategy the policy makers, providers and funding
bodies find the accurate options for providing care and support that are based on the result of the
research and evaluation. It will include increasing use of technology to improve home
monitoring applications that will guide in identification of lifestyle risk factors of people and
allowing them to look after them who are vulnerable to chronic diseases and at the risk of
immediate care. It assesses the risk factors through national broadband network, telehealth and
ehealth to identify the health risks. Social media is also utilized, which is an important part of
everyday life and that will help in patient care and support. Technology of social media can be
used for management of self-care, patient recall, checkup services, increasing communication
and information technology in the target populations who are a target of lifestyle diseases such as
hypertension (The University of Sydney, 2019). This strategy helps in enhancing equity and
social justice in terms of healthcare in the target population of people who are suffering from
hypertension. The social determinants such as illiteracy, socioeconomic backwardness,
unawareness, health issues are addressed in this strategy that can used for prevention of the
chronic diseases Australia is suffering from. It also looks after the indigenous population of the