NUR3101: Evaluation of Australian Primary Health Care Strategies

This report evaluates a key strategy within Australia's National Primary Health Care (PHC) Strategic Framework, focusing on a public health issue. It delves into determinants of health, particularly equity and social justice, and examines epidemiological factors associated with the chosen strategy. The analysis incorporates the World Health Organization's (WHO) five key principles of Primary Health Care, offering a comprehensive assessment of the strategy's effectiveness. Furthermore, the report explores the significance of the strategy to nursing practice, outlining relevant roles and responsibilities within the context of primary health care delivery. The report references several studies and policies, including the National PHC Policy and studies on indigenous health outcomes, to support its arguments. The report also discusses the impact of socioeconomic factors and immunization programs on health outcomes, and emphasizes the importance of accessibility, acceptability, accommodation, availability, affordability, and appropriateness of health services.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Causes of health such as equity and social justice.......................................................................3
Epidemiological factors associated with Immunization..............................................................4
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The perspective of National Primary Health Care (NPHC) strategy promotes country,
regions and provinces to operate together to improve integrated treatment and health resources
through all Medicare centers and improve health outcomes for every Australian people. A
diverse and wide view of primary health care is formed by the National PHC Policy. The
strategic plan recognizes the influential role of the general practitioners (GPs) and the future
development of positions of periodic practice in the primary health care system. Healthcare
consumers and care professionals also know the function of the platform. The programme
acknowledges the need for equal entry to healthcare facilities to be developed and is designed to
include all healthcare facilities supplied in the household and social environment.
Transformations in the model of health are presumed with the objective of improving only one
thing which is the right to equal approachability to all health facilities (Standing Council on
Health, 2013). Their impact is generally assessed on the basis of healthcare employs, without
stereotyping between phases of care.
Discussion
The demographic census information released by the Relative Socioeconomic
Disadvantage Index (IRSD) focuses on a region's socioeconomic constraints based on elements
such as weak currency, poor teaching rates, higher-level public-sector accommodation, poverty,
and much more. Compared to the remainder of the population, it is well recognized that
indigenous individuals experience a lot of bad well-being. Native Australians have a

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significantly poor life level, according to multiple studies, and are usually confronted with
negative pregnancy outcomes, elevated mortality levels, and greater hospital admission prices.
There are common indicators of health which define the circumstances under which
people give birth or are fostered, developed and nurtured, live, give labor and move with flow of
life. In short, these circumstances are created by a wider range of experiences: economics,
cultural rules and laws. Other than genetic and biological procedures, there are some other
variables (such as funds, cultural rules and laws) that makeup people's wellness and the nearby
society that can have a beneficial or bad effect. Immunization programs can be used as a
framework for efficient indigenous medication services. According to a study, indigenous
Australian’s wellness outcomes have been widely recorded and are associated with the ongoing
cultural and financial disadvantage (Turrell et al., 2006). There are certain policies that focus on
preventing and providing primary care during the earlier phases of adolescence to decrease
wellness inequities.
Health causes such as equality and social righteousness
Most individuals can get great healthcare relative to individuals with poor socio-
economic status. Successively, it is generally considered incomplete that some group of
organizations, such as those with a small socioeconomic status, does not obtain similar type of
healthcare services like others (Garcia et al., 2019). This favoritism or prejudice is even dirtier if
health inequities match the insufficient allocation of other publicly produced resources such as
incomes, academic options, built-up environments and personal participation opportunities.
Thus, preferences given in the healthcare stages in between certain groups in community is
reflected as unfair if the health condition of that particular group is poorer than what is faced by

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other people (Garcia et al., 2019). Though, this moral proclamation to a certain (smallest) health
stage abovementioned is complex.
The policies and laws which are linked to healthcare are different than other type of
individual privileges, and collectively, they deliver the framework to aim for the broad diversity
of cultural elements of health. These consist of public and governmental privileges as well as
financial, societal and customary privileges (Stronks et al., 2016). The basic definition to right to
health is the approachability to medical facilities and also about utilizing the important aspects of
health. To a certain degree, these important aspects can be defined by utilizing different human
privileges like privileges to accommodation, nourishment, security and schooling, but the
impression of the basis of the reasons is still better and more polished, and the human privileges
framework must draw inspiration from the public health organization (Stronks et al., 2016).
Epidemiological factors associated with Immunization
Although infectious diseases in native Australians account for only a tiny fraction of
illnesses, they are mostly sustained because of their disadvantages, such as overpopulation,
sparse safety and sanitation arrangements, and poor nutrition. In addition, mediation is usually
more aimed on chronic disease. Diseases which are preventable through vaccines are normally
compliant to rapid and profitable prevention, and directed immunization phases have helped to
decline health discriminations. However, delivery of such services, like any other type of
healthcare interventions, is administered by prime healthcare organizations. The frequency and
mortality percentage of cervical cancer are mostly interrelated with the downside of lower-
middle class which is commonly because of insufficient access to treatment and diagnosis.

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There is an immunization for the human papillomavirus (HPV) which enables the chance
of decreasing the global health discrepancy. Higher frequency of cervical cancer (Hall et al.,
2019) is usually seen in native women of Australia which is more significant compared to those
distant females, primarily because of under-screening. Conferring to a study the Australia’s
National HPV vaccination program are serving the local females of Australia who are at a danger
of cervical cancer (Gregor et al., 2018). They are being safe-guarded alongside the directed
varieties of HPV vaccine.
Analysis
The range of accessibility of different services can be defined by certain factors which are
(Levesque, Harris & Russell, 2013) –
 Approachability defines to whom so ever is seeking health care can approach the
healthcare services, which can be reached, and has the ability to have an influence on the
person’s health. Many factors like perceptibility, information related to the patient’s
treatment, facilities and different actions enable the service to be approachable.
 Acceptability refers to the traditional and communal aspects which regulate likelihood of
people to approve the characteristics of services and mediated rightness for the person to
accept healthcare management.
 Accommodation refers to data for which the healthcare services can be reached and
accessed by both perceptibly and in a timely manner. Availability refers to the physical
existence of health amenities with satisfactory competence to deliver services.
 Affordability refers to the financial capability of a person which can be utilized in a
appropriate fashion to take advantage of the facilities. Also affordability says that a

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person should compensate for medical services without unnecessary expenditure of
wealth to gain the essential necessities (such as marketing of personal costly items such
car or home).
 Appropriateness refers to the tie between services and an individual’s necessities, its
appropriateness, and the care exhausted in determining health concerns in assessing the
proper treatment and the practical and interactive feature of the services provided.
Conclusion
I think that the approach of holism is not described or viewed; however, it is conducted
through the spoken words of the patients’. Holistic care is a concept of the approach of
guaranteeing a patient's treatment. Holistic nurses are the ones who define and engage in the
peculiar treatment of each individual. It can be predicted, as per the results, that there are still
two health-related problems. First, there is a possibility for extending vaccination initiatives, and
second, there is also a need for delivering present programs to all nations around the globe,
providing fair and affordable healthcare programs, particularly in non-remote areas.

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