Insights from Post-modernist Perspectives and their Impact on Health Practice

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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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Postmodernism perspective is considered popularly in both the Philosophy and
the Sociology field. Over-all postmodernism is a movement that detaches itself
from features of modernism and structuralism in various different ways. Health
as well as illness are intensely private and inner matters. It is evident that good
health is the primary necessity for the 'good life'. On the contrary, illness is
something which encounters our logic of safety and may incorporate severe fear,
trauma as well as anxiety into our daily lives. In spite of an increasing literature
on postmodernism in nursing as well as healthcare disciplines, it endures to be
determined by mistrust, misunderstanding (Fox, 2016).

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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.
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Indigenous health outcomes are still an issue in case of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people of Australia.
In spite of increase in funding indigenous health outcomes are still an issue in
Australia for three reasons. The three different reasons for indigenous health
outcomes are:
 Communal factors: Indigenous Australians have inferior levels of
education, employment in comparison to non-Indigenous Australians
 Risk factors for health: Indigenous Australians always have increased rate
of smoking as well as alcohol consumption as well as have a superior risk
of high blood pressure than non-Indigenous Australians.
 Gets access to proper medical services: Indigenous Australians are more
likely to report difficulty in accessing subsidised health services than non-
Indigenous Australians (Mitrou et al., 2014).
The drastic health condition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of
Australia is popularly known. Significant inequalities always exist between
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians.
Inequalities specifically persist in case of chronic and contagious diseases,
newborn health, psychological wellbeing and life expectation.
There are different numbers of alarming statistics exist among Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples that expose an ingrained health disaster. These
alarming trends are:
 Elevated rate of certain chronic diseases such as chronic renal failure,
cardiac diseases and diabetes.
 Increased rate of poor health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
infants.
 Drastically reduced access to primary health care.

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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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Sociological theories of psychiatry have completely changes the field of
psychiatry. There are many sociological theories such as are functionalism,
interpersonal theory, attachment theory, stress theory. This answer would briefly
explain the social theories by considering "depression" as a prototype of
psychiatry.
Functionalist theory
Considering the functionalism theory, emotional processes are induced in
response to motives. This theory also consider emotion as a quantitative and
qualitative alteration in development. Hence, any conflict in emotions or
emotional processes may develop depression in certain cases.
Attachment theory
Attachment theory brings a significant change in the development of various
psychiatric disorders. Loss of an attachment or bond develops the separation
anxiety. This separation anxiety may lead to the development of depression in
some cases.
Stress theory
According to the theory stress can be referred as a nonspecific bodily response
or stimulus to any demand developed due to any pleasant or unpleasant
conditions. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions may give rise to depression in
several cases (Avasthi, 2016).

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Question 4
What are the key benefits and limitations of e-health?
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Key benefits of e-health are as follows:
Financial incentive.
Medical experts automate records with an electronic health record (EHR). EHR
provides the essential demonstration of meaningful use that the Australian
government needs. Therefore, this record system agrees them to receive the
incentives.
Proper evidence is easier to write.
Most EHR systems can generate templates. Those templates help to direct
health care experts to enter particular records for particular patients.
Patients can have their own access of medical documents.
With the help of an electronic health documents, numerous medical workers
have developed online portals. These portals help the patients to access their
own medical documents (Botha, Botha & Herselman, 2014).
Time-saving
A patient gateway can be introduced in an EHR system. EHR system can be
setup properly so that patients may contribute their personal data straight into
their records. It saves the time of the patients as well as the healthcare experts.
Orders can be generated and initiated immediately
By using an EHR system, healthcare experts can directly place orders for
imaging and pathological reports.
Limitations of e-health are:
Hackers can easily access patient files.
In 2017 ransom ware attacks were started through malware. This, in turn,
develop a significant security admission problems on EHR servers. The software
encodes the EHR, creating it distant until a “ransom” is compensated to
reinstate the data.
EHR service must be updated on a daily basis.
An EHR gateway must obtain regular updates so that it can execute its function
as expected. If a medical worker chooses a scheme that receives irregular