Social Economic Status Question 2022

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Question 1
What insights do post-modernist perspectives provide and what might this mean
for health practice?
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Post-modernist perspectives evolved during later half of the 20th century. It is
characterized by broad skepticism, relativism along with subjectivism; a basic
suspicion of reason and an acute sensitivity of the role towards the basic
ideology in asserting and proper maintenance of the economic and political
power. The ideas of the post-modernist theory reflect the broader aspect of the
public discussion over the meaning and the role of science. It cast an
epistemological challenge to the overall knowledge of the expert and thus
highlighting the fragility of the discursive practices. The post-modernistic
approach on healthcare also identifies the importance of the proper social
enquiry and also seeks moral, practical and other contextual information that
help to empowers and to offers choice (Fox, 2016). Holmes (2016) argued that
post-modernistic approach in relation to the healthcare states that the
experience of illness is not linear with cause and effect equation. On contrary,
post-modernistic approach in healthcare is constructed over myriad of social,
cultural, economic and physical context. The outcomes of the illness are severe
among the people, who reside under poor-socio-economic status. The same
theory is also application on the course of disease development. People who
reside under poor socio-economic status like the indigenous population are more
vulnerable towards disease development in comparison to the non-indigenous
population.

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Question 2
Despite increases in funding, explain why in Australia, Indigenous health
outcomes are still an issue? Provide examples to illustrate your argument.
Despite
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Despite increase in the level of funding by the Australian Government
Department of Health under the policy of
Closing the Gap, the health inequality
among the Australian indigenous population still persists. Indigenous population
of Australia, often find it difficult to access the proper mainstream primary
healthcare services. Securing proper access to primary healthcare services,
demand more than just services, those are well-equipped and are easy to reach.
The barriers in proper access to the primary healthcare services include social
discrimination and racism. Other issues related to barriers in comprehensive
primary healthcare access in spite of having a well-structured primary
healthcare include unemployment, and lower levels of education (Davy et al.,
2016).
Cultural barriers might also lead to inequitable healthcare access among the
indigenous population of Australia leading to health-related inequality. The main
cultural barriers include lack of trained culturally competent nurse and aboriginal
healthcare workforce. Other cultural barriers include language barriers, making
the indigenous population from culturally and linguistically diverse group,
difficult to access healthcare services (Li, 2017).
Thus the government of Australia must channelize the overall funding towards
the introduction of subsidised healthcare services, free consultation at
community-based healthcare service in order to increase the healthcare access
and thus reducing health in-equality. Recruitment of the culturally competent
and aboriginal nurses will also help to increase the health access (Li, 2017; Davy
et al., 2016).

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Question 3
Psychiatry can be viewed as an institute of social control. Draw on sociological
theories and examples to discuss this statement.
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Obasi et al. (2020) stated that the social determinants of health might negatively
affect the health by increasing the level of stress and depression and thereby
hampering the psychological balance of the body. The increased level of social
stress arising out of unemployment, social isolation, financial crisis and poor
level of sanitation increase the level of stress and depression and this hamper
the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction and thereby
hampering the psychological health further. This can be explained through the
Balance Theory. According to this theory, lack of balance in maintaining the
proper social life is increasing the level of negative thoughts and thereby
increasing severity of stress and subsequent development of depression, a
significant psychological problem (Thibaut, 2017). Equity Theory States that
people feel comfortable and safe when they receive their deserved appreciation
and acknowledgement from the society. Lack of proper acknowledgement
coming from the society (proposition II), increases the level of frustration and
depression and thereby increasing the level of stress and depression. Persistent
level of stress and depression hampers the overall psychological balance of the
body hampering the mental health (Bowen, 2018).

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Question 4
What are the key benefits and limitations of e-health?
Question 5
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The e-health or electronic health records (EHRs) are regarded as the first step
towards transformed healthcare. Some of the notable advantages of e-Health
include ensuring quick and instant access to the patients' health records and
easy documentation of patients’ data. Thus, helping to increase the provision of
care during emergency services and increasing the scope of care delivery to the
patients in the remote areas. e-health helps to reduce the work load of the
doctors and thus helping to increase their productivity (Ross et al., 2016). E-
health also helps to reduce the overall cost of care by reducing the financial
expenses of paper-based documentation. The effective use of e-health further
reduces the chances of missing the clinical handover during the change of shift
nurses. Some of limitations of E-health include lack of proper regulation of the
privacy and confidentiality of patients' data and thus leading to data piracy. The
lack of IT professionals in order to train the nurses have increased the burden
over the nurses in proper access to e-health and this contributing the increased
job-stress of the nurses (Ross et al., 2016). Yusif, Hafeez-Baig and Soar (2017)
argued that there is a lack of readiness among the nursing professional in order
to take-up and implement the e-health record and this leads to lack of
comprehensive application of e-health and at the same time increase in the level
of job-stress among the nurses. Increase in the level of job-related stress among
the nurses reduces the nurse retention.