Primary Health Care Research 2022

Running head: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 1
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Introduction: Primary Health Care (PHC)
Primary health care in Australia is predicated on four main strategies. However, in
this assignment we are going to take a deeper look at the target known lifestyle strategy. This
is related to health risk factors like poor diet, smoking, poor nutrition, unsafe sexual practices
and excessive alcohol consumption. The actions leverages on preventive health collaboration
by both state and national governments. This enhances the capacity of medicare locals in
supporting population levels support and control. The preventive control will also include
developing best practices for interventions in prevrntion and promotion of health. The
activities in the strategy will be implemented both at the local level and national level as part
of the intergrated primary health services. These will lead to implementation of relevant
models locally made. Addressing health prevention is the roll of health professionals like
pharmacists. They are well paced to help in prevention, intervention, health self- management
and screening. Importantly, with all income levels are covered and at different levels of
development: Fairness in relation to health is a problem in all our countries, the condition of
which is largely dependent on global, economic and political system.
Primary health care is basically about giving care to people besides treating them for
conditions and diseases. The main areas of PHC are: essential public health functions as the
fundamental integrated services in health; empowering community’s health and multisectoral
actions & policies. PHC includes services from prevention of diseases (family planning and
vaccination) to management of palliative and other chronic diseases (Baum, 2016).
The five principles of primary health care by WHO include

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1. Organizing peoples needs and expectations and organizing them around health
services.
2. Reducing social disparities and exclusion of people in health facilities.
3. Increasing participation by stakeholders
4. Public policy reforms and intergrating health into different sectors
5. Pursuing leadership reforms through cloaborative dialogues policy models.
For the Australian government, the primary health principle are centred around:
organizing the peoples needs and expectations around health services. It is important that the
government organizes and plans for peoples health depending on their needs. It is also
important that the government reduce social disparities and exclusion of people from health
services. The government should exercise equity in sitribution and planning of health
strategies. It should also ensure that there is maximum input from industry stakeholders such
as doctors, sataes and the national government. Public policy and reforms should also
intergrate health into different sectors while Pursuing leadership reforms through cloaborative
dialogues policy models.
Social determinates are the conditions that an individual grows in, are born in, work ,
live and age that can lead to him or her being an alcoholic or a smoker. In Australia, many
people either use alcohol or smoke tobacco or both. Little has been done to examine alcohol
use and alcohol related challengesd that arise from social determinants and inequeties
perspective. Studies conducted in Australia reviewed the evidence based on inequeties of
alcoholism and cigarette smoking(Gage, et al ,2018). Research has aslo been done on
alcoholism in Australia and appropriate actions that would promote health equity. The
governments aspirations for equity in health, must take their place in the search of a balanced
approach to addressing the needs of social and economic development of the entire
population, equity in health and relevance.