Report on Primary Healthcare Strategies in a Global Context

This report examines primary healthcare (PHC) within a global context, focusing on the National PHC Strategic framework and its strategies. It identifies key strategies such as improving quality, access, and integration, and promoting health prevention. The report analyzes the importance of health equity and reducing inequalities, with actions like integrating new health system intelligence, promoting relationships between general practitioners and consumers, and maximizing eHealth opportunities. The assignment explores epidemiological factors and disease prevention at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, highlighting the importance of immunization, cancer screening, and patient-centered disease management. It emphasizes the need for equitable access to healthcare services, especially for those in rural and remote areas, and the role of PHC in improving health outcomes and reducing preventable diseases and mortality rates.

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Primary Healthcare in a Global Context
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Primary Healthcare in a Global Context
Introduction
Primary Healthcare is said to be a broad category of health that incorporates the defined
terms of the World Health Organization (WHO) service provision. It explains the approaches of
health policies to patients through the provision of primary healthcare services to a better public
health condition. Its focus is to prevent illness, keep people healthy, and improve the
management of chronic and complex conditions. Besides, it aims at providing improved
healthcare for all the Australian people equitably and minimizes the unnecessary frequent
hospitalization (World Health Organization. 2016). In this assignment, identify, discuss, and
analyze the critical strategies in the National PHC Strategic framework and explaining the
epidemiological factors associated with the chosen primary healthcare.
Social determinants are defined as the social and economic factors that influence the health
of people and their communities. These factors heavily rely on power, money, and wealth, which
are owned by people that will help in shaping the choice of policies they make towards health.
Besides, biological, psychosocial, and behavioral factors can as well be contributing significant
consequences to human health (Cooper et al. 2016). To mention, are the key strategies identified
to improve the framework of National primary healthcare.
 Improving quality, performance, safety, and accountability;
 Growing access and reducing inequality;
 Coming up with a patient-focused and integrated healthcare system; and
 Promoting the focus on health prevention and promotion, early intervention, and
screening.

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In partnership with the commonwealth, the Australian state is required to come up with a
state-specific plan to execute the framework. The projects will define the specific actions to be
taken and the necessary laws put in place to attain the structure. Health equality is achieved when
every individual in society can reach his or her health potentials without any limiting
disadvantage.
Picking strategy two, improving access and reduce inequality. This implies healthcare is
admitted via an integrated service system that delivers high-quality care in every part of the
country and elaborates the gaps comprehensively in the services provided. The following are the
potential actions that are underlined to eradicate this problem.
First, interpret the new and existing the intelligence of the health system, including economic
modeling, research, and need assessments into a proved planning and service delivery. This
action aims at improving the National Health Service by taking into account evidence,
workforce, and availability of evidence and the infrastructural needs that are components of the
required healthcare model for the communities. Nevertheless, innovative models form an
essential base for infrastructural advancement. The commonwealth and the member countries
require these basics to battle the uprising intelligence in the health care service provision (Daniel,
Bornstein, & Kane, 2018). For the drive to need development to catch up, it will require the
hand of the government in reinforcing the set principles and supporting the necessary financial
requirements. The government too, should seek to improve the equity and accessibility of
resources to aid in the planning and service delivery for its entire health system.
The second potential action is to promote an extended relationship between the general
practitioners and the consumers of health services to advance on the wellbeing of people and
their families. The first clinical point to visit when people are sick is the GP. Those that have

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well established with GP endure lasting benefits as opposed to those who do not the timely care
and relief to their health problems. Thus, to encourage a lasting relationship was a move that
could help see people develop a longitudinal link created between the consumers and the general
practice. To provide possible means to overcome the health issues in Australia. In return, it
creates higher accountability on the method to manage the care for the patients on higher
accountability and responsiveness to the patients' treatment (Marmot, 2017). Patient-centered
medical home (PCMH) is serving as a piece of evidence that provides and contributes to
improved health outcomes. They majorly played a more significant role in reducing the cost of
medication and accommodation. The Australian adults who made it to the facilities having a
PCMH reported of the well-coordinated care, fewer test duplications, and fewer medical errors
when receiving the tratments. They as well added that they experienced an improved relationship
with the health providers, and were fully satisfied with the health terms they received.
Thirdly, maximizing the eHealth opportunities that included the Personally Controlled
Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) and an initiative that provided for a secure messaging
system. The partnership of the commonwealth and the states elevated the application of health so
that the information between the member states in commonwealth society could easily exchange
information that is confidential in the right protocols. The telehealth system works intending to
expand the National Health Cell Network, the roll-out of the National Broadband Network, and
the National Health Service directory (Sharma, Pinto, & Kumagai, 2018). Telehealth, on the
other hand, discovered and effectively employed the use of a software system to support the
incorporation of delivery of quality care and provision of continuous care support. The patient
information management system will help the progress of care by building and strengthening of
advanced information exchange between the health professionals for a long time linking the

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different clinical locations. This targets the shared data system that is updated and summarized
patients' health records, diagnostic results, referral documents, discharge summaries, and
inpatient care with the consent of the patient.
Epidemiology refers to how often the diseases infect different people and why. Its study is
to help in the prevention of diseases through actions of primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.
These factors are played by health professionals in the primary care community services
environment and hospitals. Prevention of diseases involves three levels that are, improving the
general health of the population, improving the secondary prevention, and finally improving the
treatment and recovery (Bailey et al. 2017). Each of the factors has a role to play in disease
prevention of patients as discussed below.
At the primary prevention level, the countries are expected to establish a routine program of
immunization that is effective and well developed. Nevertheless, the nations might be
experiencing an under-developed vaccine delivery to their various active medical centers,
especially with the minority populated places. In solving this issue, the Australian country had
improved the vaccine-preventable diseases in every region (Siegel, Coleman, & James, 2018). At
the secondary level, Australia had to establish a significant form of cancer screening. Even
though the cancer routine screening is not evidence-based and procedural health check for the
non-communicable disease. At the tertiary level, the country might be experiencing a lack of
affordability and availability for the early stages of cancer. Thus the need to train their health
practitioners on the management approach for non-communicable disease and evidence-based
treatment with the recently developed medical equipment As a consequence, a three disease
prevention approach was designed to take care of the balance of the criteria (López, & Gadsden,

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2016). The involvement of health promotion and vaccination, screening and early detection of
diseases and finally, integrating the patient-centered disease management.
To maximize the equitability in access of all people to vaccines of the assured quality through
vaccine-preventable disease and immunization approach supported by the Global Immunization
Vision and Strategy (GIVS). Preventing other diseases such as STIs, tuberculosis, and
cardiovascular diseases were as well defined to cater for the access and equitable distribution of
health
Conclusion.
The people living in rural and remote areas continue to experience poverty and
unavoidable health results than the urban people. The primary role of the PHC and the services
they provide to the locals should be inclusive to all the Australians. PHC's health expertise
should ensure that there are equity and easy access to the healthcare services to all the people
living in Australia. Most preferably, they should be concerned with improving health outcomes.
The more the PHC gets to the interior with their service provision, the more that chances of
reducing the rates of preventable diseases. As well, there will be decreased mortality rates and
highly avoidable hospitalization cost and time.

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