Health care Report Australia 2022

Running head: HEALTHCARE 1
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
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Primary Health Care in a Global Context
Australians generally experience good health, which leads to better life expectancy. The
life expectancy for men was about 80.4 years and 84.5 years for women in 2015. Relatively 85%
of the youngsters had reported better health status in 2014-2015. However, there is an issue when
it comes to the leading cause of the deaths in Australia, which is mostly noncommunicable
disease which poses the greatest danger to Australians’ health (Diehr et al., 2017). The other
challenges emerge from the social injustices and health inequity for the people of the lower
social class and the Indigenous group in Australia because of their poor health outcomes. The
prevention and management of ill health is the role of the Primary and community health care
who provide early treatment and interventions. Nurses, pharmacists, general practitioners, and
nay other health professionals offer the Primary Health Care (Kim, Farmer, & Porter, 2013).
WHO houses Australia on the sector of health being one of the leading contributors in shaping
the global health care and flexible funding agendas.
In this essay, there will be identification and evaluation of Australia’s current critical
strategies in primary health care, which is directed to a public health issue. The discussion will
be based on the determinants of health like social justice and equity, and epidemiological factors
associated with the primary healthcare strategy. There will be an evaluation with the reflections
on the fundamental principles of the Primary Health Care from WHO. The social determinants of
health, health effects of climate change and environmental degradation, and the cultural
appropriateness of the health care provision will be critically analyzed.
The current fundamental strategy of my concern in Primary Health Care is the promotion
of people-centered health systems and universal health coverage. Healthy equity and social
justice are the main goals because it focuses on the aging populations, the indigenous groups,

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and the lower social-economic class (Baum et al., 2013). Numerous nations in the region are
thinking about how to manufacture more grounded wellbeing administrations to move towards
universal health care, which is nondiscriminatory. Particularly notwithstanding, aging populaces,
the Aboriginal group, and the lower social classes rising paces of noncommunicable diseases and
the requirement for more grounded forefront essential health services administrations. Australia's
wellbeing framework is moving from an illness situated methodology towards individuals-
focused consideration, concentrating on a person's general physical and mental prosperity and
successfully captivating with societies. Australia focus is on tending to necessary, auxiliary and
tertiary counteractive action of constant conditions, perceiving that there are frequently
fundamental comparative standards for the anticipation and the executives of numerous unending
states.
The strength of Australia with administration planning and the conveyance models,
medical care strategies, and wellbeing data frameworks may be of use in other nations. Australia
endeavors to reinforce wellbeing frameworks strategy to guarantee that the correct structures are
set up to encourage facilitated, proficient, compelling, and brilliant social insurance and bring
about health equity. For instance, Australia has been utilizing eHealth systems to improve
administration conveyance in remote and local regions (Scholl, Zill, Härter, & Dirmaier, 2014).
All the more as of late, there has been a venture in a national electronic wellbeing record
framework to enhance facilitated care over the different degrees of wellbeing administrations.
Australia is a pioneer in wellbeing innovation appraisals with built-up instruments set up to
survey the clinical viability, security, and cost-adequacy of prescriptions and restorative
administrations.

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WHO has five guiding principles for the Australian Primary Health Care. They include
“accessibility, community participation, health promotion, appropriate use of technology, and
intersectoral collaboration” (Halcomb et al., 2016). The development of people-centered health
systems and universal health coverage is connected to the five guiding principles its primary aim
is the elimination of the noncommunicable diseases as an epidemiological factor, health inequity
and social injustices in the health sector.
Accessibility makes sure that essential consideration administrations are available, given
equally, and moderate to all people despite their age, area, sex, or ethnicity. This method makes
that the discriminated group, like the Aboriginal group in Australia, is catered for entirely
without any more problems. At primary healthcare in Australia, in the effort of eliminating the
social injustices in the health sector, it is accepted that entrance to humane, society-focused,
family, and far-reaching social insurance is the privilege of everyone paying little heed to their
social class (Kitson, Marshall, Bassett, & Zeitz, 2013).
Community cooperation involves all the significant society’s assets in the enhancement
of wellbeing and medical issues from the lowest groups possible. Embracing this methodology at
Primary Health Care in Australia has led to the realization of the causes which make the
community to take proprietorship for the wellbeing of its kin and all other aspects of health.
Wellbeing advancement or helping society in the reinforcement of the economic issues which
lead to great prosperity. WHO characterizes the essentials for wellbeing as harmony,
nourishment, salary, commercial assets, shelter, education, social equity, and justice. At Primary
Health Care in Australia, it is accepted to treat the individual, without considering where they
live and the regular battles they experience (Castaneda et al., 2015).

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Proper utilization of innovation or utilizing medical advancements that are socially
adequate, possible, and moderate to people and society is another critical principle. At Primary
Health Care in Australia, reconciliation of the innovation in the medical field guarantee the
productive and compelling conveyance of health administration. Intersectoral joint effort or
perceiving that any society's prosperity and wellbeing doesn't rely entirely on compelling
administration of healthcare. Organizations, associations, and governments in different parts are
similarly significant in advancing the welfare and confidence of societies. That is the reason
Primary Health Care in Australia works in partnership with an assorted variety of social partners
to create administrations that meet the novel needs of individual societies (Commonwealth of
Australian Governments, 2011).
Conclusion
The promotion of people-centered health systems and universal health coverage as shown
has been connected to the five guiding principles its primary aim is the elimination of the
noncommunicable diseases as an epidemiological factor, health inequity and social injustices in
the health sector. As has been discussed, this key strategy can help the Primary healthcare sector
in Australia only if it meets all the guiding principles of the World Health Organization. There
has been a critical analysis of the significance of the nursing practice showing the social
determinants and availability, accessibility, and the affordability of the indiscriminative strategy
of primary health care.

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