Health Service Management: Campbelltown LGA Health Service Analysis

This report provides an analysis of health service management within the Campbelltown Local Government Area (LGA) in New South Wales (NSW). It highlights the role of the LGA in ensuring quality health services and public health education. The report delves into the demographic and socio-economic data of Campbelltown, noting its diverse population, high youth presence, and the impact of education and employment on health outcomes. It identifies challenges such as lower educational attainment among certain communities and its correlation with employment opportunities and access to healthcare. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of education and economic stability in improving the overall health and well-being of Campbelltown residents, and the role of the LGA in addressing these factors.

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Executive Summary
The Local Government Authority protects and strengths effective and demographic
systems of local government across NSW to bring about quality services. The health care sector
is an essential sector in all aspects of people’s lives as it is responsible for ensuring a healthy
nation. The LGA in NSW plays a significant role in offering health services and establishing
programs that educate the public on matters concerning their wellbeing. It also makes them
aware of the services they should receive from the LGA. The Campbelltown LGA is constituted
by a high you population implying that it is a highly productive economy. The area is composed
of people from different ethnicities which make it diversified. The health of this town relies on
factors such as education. Most of the people from these communities believe that the local
education which they receive is enough for them and thus due to their poor educational
qualifications they are not able to secure well-paying jobs in the city. With high-level education,
people in Campbelltown will secure well-paying jobs which make possible for them to afford
improved healthcare facilities.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................2
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Campbelltown Local Government Area (LGA).......................................................................................3
Demographic and Socio-Economic Data from Campbell Town Local Government Area (LGA)...........4
Education and Employment in Local Government Area (LGA) In Campbelltown.....................................5
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................8
References...................................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The Local Government Area was formed in 2013 after the local government association
of NSW merged with the shire association to represent all the councils in NSW. The LGA is a
peak organization which serves the interests of NSW general and the particular purpose councils
(Higginbotham, Connor & Baker, 2014). LGA aims at protecting and strengthening effective and
demographic systems of local government across NSW by supporting and advocating on behalf
of members of the board to ensure that they deliver high-quality services. For the LGA in NSW
to be able to achieve all its goals, it should actively represents the views and ideas of individuals
from the local government to NSW and the Australian government in large.it should also ensure
that there is effective leadership among the councils by establishing programs which aim at
educating people on leadership skills which they require so that they can be able to deliver
quality services (Sherval & Hardiman, 2014). It is also the responsibility of the local government
area to ensure that it enhances the profile of the community by building the community trust and
awareness of the local government. NSW has been delivering high-quality health care services to
all its citizens even the ones in local areas through the establishment of local government area.
Campbelltown Local Government Area (LGA)
The Campbelltown LGA economy is growing strongly in term of the population growth
over the past five years. Campbelltown industry specialization is mainly in the manufacturing
sector. Other areas of industry specifications which are aimed at serving the local population
include construction, retail trade, and food services (Gadsby, Lockwood, Moore & Curtis, 2013).
Campbelltown local government area has sufficient employees who work in local industries.
Campbelltown LGA has been facing a lot of challenges for its economic development. The local
government area has ensured that there is the distribution of significant resources to strengthen

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the financial status and function in the Campbelltown. This is to provide that all the residents in
this town can secure employment so that they can be able to cater for their basic needs. The
revenue which is obtained is also used to establish health care facilities in the city which are
affordable making every resident in the area to be able to seek medical attention whenever they
are sick. The local government area in the city aims at growing and establishing other industries
apart from the construction organizations which can be used by the town to continue fetching
revenue when the construction boom is completed (Kersting & Vetter, 2013). Local government
area in Campbelltown also aims at diversifying form the manufacturing sector which is declining
worldwide into service sector which is capable of offering job opportunities for the residents who
lives in this town and NSW at large.
Demographic and Socio-Economic Data from Campbell Town Local Government Area (LGA)
Campbelltown local government area statistics indicate that 35.7% of the residents are
aged between 0 to 24 years of age, and 34.3% of the residents who live in Campbelltown are
aged between 25 to 49 years. Residents who are above 60 years form 17.4% of the general
population. Campbelltown local government area statistical data shows that more than 31.4% of
the residents who live in this town were born overseas and 24.4% of individuals living in this
town are from non-English speaking backgrounds (Adetunji & Oyeleye, 2013). Most people in
Campbelltown local government area speak English which is followed by other languages like
the Arabic, Hindi, and Samoan. Indigenous communities which are made up of Aboriginals and
the Torres Strait Islanders of the NSW form the largest population in this town. These indigenous
group of people living in this LGA strictly follows their cultural norms. Most of the individuals
who work in Campbelltown city also lives in this city, and they form 48.7%. 76052 residents in

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Campbelltown are employed with 62.1% of them working on a full-time basis and 35.6% part-
time. Only 7.9% of the people who live in this area are unemployed.
The city revenue income comes from three most popular industries which are healthcare
sector which offers high quality healthcare services to residents and attracting people from
outside the country to seek medical attention in this town which has raised the income tax,
manufacturing companies which supplies residents with goods which they need on their daily
basis and retail trade (Azuh, Fayomi & Yartey Ajayi, 2015). 18.6% of individuals who are
working in this LGA are professionals with 12.5% of residents working in Campbelltown
working in clerical and administrative departments. Only a few numbers of residents in this city
have obtained a bachelor degree in higher education; this number forms 15.3%. 20.5% in this
area have vocational training qualifications, and a large population of 46% in this LGA have no
educational qualifications, and thus they are not able to secure themselves high paying jobs in the
job markets of Campbelltown (SALAMI, DUMBILI & EZEAH, 2013). A large population of
these residents of 61.4% drives their care as a mean of transport with 5.2% using public means to
work.
Education and Employment in Local Government Area (LGA) In Campbelltown
Education and jobs are key factors which affect healthcare services of each country.
Education and employment are very significant in any healthcare system. Each state requires to
have well-educated people so that it can employ many healthcare professionals who are well
skilled and have qualifications to ensure that its citizens receive high-quality healthcare services
which meets their health needs. Local government area of Campbelltown in NSW has few
educated residents which means they cannot be able to employ enough healthcare professionals

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within the city they have to hire them from other towns in NSW or employ foreigner which
affects their revenue income as they have to spend a lot of their taxpaying different healthcare
professionals. It is also clear this city is made up of indigenous communities who value their
culture (Najjar et al., 2014). Most of the people from these communities believe that the local
education which they receive is enough for them and thus due to their poor educational
qualifications they are not able to secure well-paying jobs in the city. This makes it very hard for
them to be able to cater for their basic needs and they lack enough capital to seek medical care,
and they end up using herbs without prescriptions from a qualified healthcare professional who
can affect their health adversely.
Education affects health services in some ways. Educations make it possible to teach
residents living in Campbelltown about health which can motivate some of them to do courses
which are related to health and thus increasing the number of healthcare professionals who are
skilled and have expertise in the city (Radford et al., 2014). This has led to enhancements in the
healthcare sector in which residents receives high-quality healthcare services which satisfy all
their health needs thus improving the quality of life. Residents who are educated and enlightened
in Campbelltown knows the importance of seeking healthcare attention when they are sick as
compared to indigenous communities which do not go to school, and thus they believe their
indigenous herbs can cure all their infections which is not the case and they end up having more
health complications (Phillips, Miranti, Vidyattama & Cassells, 2013). Educations give
individuals the knowledge to understand how they can be able to deal with various infections
which they are exposed to. Educations make people more aware of practices which they should
engage in when they are faced with diseases such as diabetes. Educated people are aware that
they should engage themselves in healthy diets as well as participating in physical exercises so

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that they can be able to reduce the complications which are associated with this infection. Most
of the educated people living in Campbelltown local government area can understand other
languages apart from their first language. This has made it possible for healthcare professionals
to be able to establish strong therapeutic relationships with patients because they can
communicate efficiently which enables them to earn the patients trust and thus patients feels free
sharing their health conditions with physicians. With the help of information which healthcare
professionals gather from patients they can administer high-quality healthcare services to the
patients who meet their needs (Falster et al., 2015). The indigenous communities who live in this
city only understand their first language due to lack of education which makes it challenging to
communicate with foreign healthcare professionals.
Education makes residents in Campbelltown be able to secure themselves good-paying
jobs, which makes it easier for them to be able to live in healthier neighborhood in which they
can easily access healthcare services, take their children to school and be able to pay nutritious
foods which canny expose them to the risk of conducting infections such as diabetes and obesity
(Tran, Jorm, Johnson, Bambrick & Lujic, 2015). Employed residents living in the LGA of
Campbelltown in NSW have longer lifespans as compared to unemployed people. This is
because they have capital which they can use to seek high-quality healthcare when they are sick
to improve their health statuses. These individuals can afford nutritious diets which can prevent
infections or reduce the complications which are brought by various diseases. On the other hand,
unemployed residents face numerous health issues. These group of people is exposed to cheaply
processed foodstuffs which are associated with multiple health complications.

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Conclusion
Healthcare sector is an important area that offers services to the public. The LGA is
responsible for ensuring people in its area receive quality health services as well as creating
awareness on what the public should expect from the government. Different factors determine
the level of health care services that people in a given area receive. Education is one key factor
that determines the health services of Campbelltown. The town’s population is comprised of
young people who are energetic and working. This makes the town’s economy one of the most
improved. The people are from different ethnic backgrounds thus diversifies the economy. The
LGA intervene in offering improved services that ensure poor people in the area who cannot
afford better diets that bolster their health are aided in reducing the occurrences of health
complications.

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