Rural Health in Australia Assignment PDF
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0Running head: RURAL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIANurse’s Role to Improve Rural HealthName of StudentName of UniversityAuthor Note
RURAL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIAIntroductionThe population living in remote and rural areas of Australia has short life expectancies and lackincreased rate in the number of premature deaths. This statistic could be the cause for lack ofaccessibility and inadequate infrastructure in the government funded healthcare settings. Fewernumber of practitioners and nurses are enthusiastic to work in rural areas to lack of resources andtransport. The condition is worsening to due to budget cuts an lack of funding from thegovernment to help the patients have better access to good healthcare. The literature review willfocus of the problems faced in rural Australia in detail and the role of nurse practitioner toprovide the patients with positive health outcomeA paper published by Elsevier in 2012, from the University of Melbourne, reflects thedetailed discussion of the current rural and remote population health in Australia. The paperprovides conceptual framework of understanding the scenario (Bourke et al., 2012). The authorsdiscussed six discrepancies faced by the healthcare providers in Australia. Geographicalisolation, local of the rural population, repercussion of local health, wide array of health systems,power and social hierarchy using Gidden’s theory to understand the interplay of these factors inrural health. Geographical location plays determines the level of accessibility and spatialisolation and proximal distances of healthcare. The lack of adequate transport facility hampersthe health providence in the area. Health is also affected by the effect of locale on the population.The effect of cultural beliefs, norms, reproductive styles all depend of the locale of the area andits inhabitants. Development of healthcare delivery systems according to the specific needs ofthe area. One such policy developed was by the government called “Flying Doctor Service”,which would fly in or fly out patients with their doctors for emergency medical attention. The
RURAL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIApolicy benefits the rural areas and their population for some time, but the majority of themainstream healthcare policies do not help the rural population in the long run. The socialhierarchical conditions of the rural population also play when the health is concerned. The social,economic education, residential area and employment affect the affordability of efficienthealthcare.Another paper published by the Australian Journal of Rural Health in 2018 investigatedthe need of the funding in the rural health. The paper also reflects whether or not the investedamount satisfies the requirement of the rural health population. The authors of the paperinvestigated the number of government-funded projects aimed to benefit the rural population ofAustralia from the year 2005-2014. The authors analysed the public datasets to estimate thenumber of the projects by the National Health and Medical Research Council Rural and RemoteHealth Research. The authors found 16,651 government-funded projects, the success rate ofthese projects increased from 1 % previously to 2.4% that presented potential benefits. Theserates of the research project implementation are still very low and the deficit of the healthcarefacilities in the rural part of Australia is about 30% of the population. The Australian governmentinvested $800 million in the research for the improvement of health but the complete sum ofmoney is not directed towards the rural population health development. The authors found 232individual grants funded by the NHMRC for the development of rural health, out of which 193projects received sanction and about 184 commenced the research after receiving the funds. Theamount for the funding money was observed to increases from $2 million annually to $11millionin the year 2014. Among this the 5.5% of the NHMRC funding was provided to the benefits offindigenous population in Australia. The research and developments investments for the rural and
RURAL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIAindigenous health has increased over the past decade but more money needs to be funded toensure that the requirement for the positive health is met. The Journal of health organization and management in 2015 by Richard Norman and SuzanneRobinson reflected whether the Australian government can solve the inequality in the healthbenefits seen in the rural population from England’s approach to solving their health discrepancyissue (Norman and Robinson, 2015). The English health policy has improved over the yearswhich can be benchmark for the development of better health policies which can be implementedfor the rural health development as well. The two countries although have different geographicalneeds and socio-economic perspective of society, some of the developments in the English healthpolicies like the focus of the government should be on the reward system based on the quality ofthe policy and not just activity as well as focussed concern on the volume of the efficiency. Thegeneral practitioners play a pivotal role in the primary healthcare and provide entrance for thespecialised secondary care. The actions of the government to implement the utilization of pricesignal in the profession of general practitioners have been proven a political decision instead of apublic centred decision. The English health policy applies a more restrained policy towards theremuneration of GPs, where the GPs get a fixed salary. However Australia’s approach to this ispayment of GPs on the fee in lieu of service. The Australian government needs to focus theirfunding on the skill and focussed development of health care practitioners which wouldminimise the risk of mismanagement in the primary healthcare and prioritize more explicitlyconsidering the stakeholders of the system. A paper published written by John Humphreys and David Lyle from the Centre ofResearch excellence in Rural and Remote Primary Care, Bendigo (Barclay, Phillips & Lyle,2018). Out of the 12, multi-professional university departments of rural health in Australia. The
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