Primary Health Care for Native People in Australia

Running head: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FOR NATIVE PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FOR NATIVE PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Types of needs.............................................................................................................................3
Approaches and methods of need analysis..................................................................................4
Literature review..........................................................................................................................6
Potential challenges of needs assessment....................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Primary health care is the first step of health care system in Australia. It is the first sheet
of care that is delivered to the societies here. In Australia, the primary care system includes
general practitioner (GP), nurses, and practicing nurses (Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet,
2020). The primary care can be provided mainly in the household or public based sceneries such
as local government and non-government service centers like community health
centers ,Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. Indigenous people in Australia often
faced complications at the time of accessing primary health care services (Shepherd et al., 2017).
There are many factors that restrict to avail this service properly. The racial discrimination
between the native and non-indigenous people has raised the issue into matter of concern. This
paper aimed to identify the varieties of needs and their processes and approaches, provide review
literature and proper justification. This article also evaluates to analyze the methods in chosen
population and the challenges that are met at the time of need assessment.
Discussion
Types of needs
Health needs assessment is an elemental approach to ensure that health care practice uses
its resources to enhance the health care procedures for a population in a constructive way. It
comprises epidemiological, comparative and qualitative way to identify problems in a
population, inequalities in access in terms of services and govern the most appropriate practice of
resources according to priority. Different types of needs are available depending upon public
health problem; Comparative, normative, expressed and felt. Primary healthcare mainly

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concentrates on health equity and provides care to the patient in a broad aspect of physical,
psychological and social problems. Emergency care, specialty care, long term care, urgent care,
mental health care, and hospitalized care are other types of care in accordance with their needs.
The process of need analysis includes identifying a public group, then assembling and revising
data, after that governing investigation to community participants and health care providers then
again collection and evaluating data, and finally the health assessment report and implementation
of that. For SWOT analysis, the first step is to gather and consider key data, the second step in
healthcare is to collect into four divisions that are strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
The third option is to form a SWOT matrix and finally the decision- making strategies that will
be suitable over all other plans for the system. The steps to guide health needs are identifying and
engaging the participants (Gürel & Tat, 2017). After that define the community on which the
assessment will be performed, then collect and evaluate the documents for those community,
after collection of data identify the health issues of that community, then document and
communicate with the people. The next step is to design improvement schemes and try to entail
those plans in reality. The final stage is evaluating the growth of the procedure.
Approaches and methods of need analysis
The analysis of need can be of two different ways. One of the approaches is health need
analysis and another perspective is service need analysis. In health need analysis first the
demographic data is collected where the population developments are overviewed. Guidelines
are followed where particular organizations find out the determinants of health. They consider
some other factors at the time of discoveries. This process also focuses on the health status and
behaviors of people like the mortality rate, predisposition of diseases, injury or trauma and other
related factors, measurement of wellbeing like social, mental and physical fitness of persons and