Examining Health Care Issues in Rural Regions of Australia

This report examines the health care challenges faced by individuals residing in rural and remote regions of Australia, where approximately 29% of the country's population lives. It highlights the disparities in health outcomes and access to services compared to metropolitan areas, noting that rural residents often experience shorter lifespans, poorer access to health services, and higher rates of disease. The report addresses the problem statement, emphasizing the significant percentage of the population in rural South Australia and the documented constraints in accessing health and aged care services. It also touches upon the lack of service availability in rural areas based on a survey and introduces a phenomenological approach to understanding the experiences of individuals in these communities. Ultimately, the research aims to benefit residents in remote areas by informing improvements in service allocation and delivery, aligning with the World Health Organization's emphasis on strong health care service delivery as a key factor in achieving health-related development goals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Statement of problem.......................................................................................................................3
Evidence of the importance of the problem.....................................................................................3
Missing of the problem content.......................................................................................................4
Audiences that will benefit from the new knowledge.....................................................................4
Reference.........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
It is to be estimated that the current population of Australia is around 25 million. Out of
this 25 million approximately 7 million or 29% of the population residing in the rural and remote
areas.
Most of the people who live in specially ruaral areas within the Australia, suffering very
lower quality health (Liddicoat 2018) than who live is metropolitan area. However the study
shows that the Australians who live in rural and remote areas sustain shorter life, they also have
poor access for health services and higher levels of disease.
The paper discuss the current situation of the consumers who live in rural and remote
societies and health care services. The methodology and the selection of participants including
the research regading problem has been addressed.
Statement of problem
Australian government state there are approximately 1.7 miilion people residing in
mainly south section. That 29.2 % of the state’s population resides in rural and remote South
Australia (Greenhill, Walker and Playford 2015).
Evidence of the importance of the problem
A recent stastics which is collected for data compendium for South Australia Health
(2019) which is elaborated that there are more people residing in regional rural areas compared
to metropolitan areas and these rigions are more likely to report higher rates of people aged
between 0-14 years of age. It is well documented that there are multiple constraints who live
outside of metropolitan areas to access a range of health and aged care services (Corsini 2020).

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People who live in rural communities, who tend to live in shorter lives. They also have poor
access to use of health services and higher level of disease and damage. Strengthening the ability
to access a health service does effect an in dividuals health.
There are multiple reasons and factors which supports that people who belongs to rura
and remote ares shows not a good healh conditions. It is the concern of disadvantage related to
education and employment generation. The key problems with the health providers in the remote
areas is mpost of the health center are mainly concentrated on the metro-cities so it is difficult to
retain them in such remote areas.
Missing of the problem content
After conducting a survey and extracting the opinions reagarding to the service
availability of health, of the residents who are living in a small and rural areas, it has been found
that the service are unavailable which is needed.
The approach in a qualitative manner is a phenomenological approach (Alase 2017). To
use this approach, it will concentrate on the experience of the health care in a rural community
from the individuals point of view and it will describe how the participants interprets the every
world. This mechanism may define the essence of the experience rather than the measure of the
number of people who will utilise or do not utilise the available services in the rural community.
Audiences that will benefit from the new knowledge
As the reaserch will be done in the rural and remote areas therefore the structural
description of the experiences which consequently make the understanding of the common
people involved.

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The data analysis will be analysed looking for significant statements which will provide
an understanding of what the participants in this form of inquiry. After conducting this reaserh
study every people residing in a remote areas who will get benefit from the limited allocate
service which may available in those location.
This phenomenological study focuses on a small and rural community in the Australia
and the service availability regarding the healthg service to be accessed. Specifically this
reaserch and the implied knowledge concentrated on the current available service actually meet
people’s demand or not whather they feel that there will need to improve the service. The world
health organization (Briggs 2016) has identified that the strong health care service delivery is a
key success factor to achieve the health related development goals as well as the fundamental
input to the health status. Since the health care service are vary from country to country and are
often state to state, a well designed and funtionong health care system should contain a key
charaterstics of a comprehensive range of services (Sakr and Elgammal 2016). Such service that
are accessible and designed to meet the target people.
After condiucting all the reaserach and implication of several methodology it will derived
that there is a true issue in the Australia specially in south section, poor people suffer with severe
health care issue, so this reaserch and guide will definitely provide benefit to those people by
reaching the minimum health care service to make them happy and healthy.

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