NZ Primary Health Care: Impact of Socio-Political & Cultural Factors

This essay explores the impact of socio-political and cultural determinants on health within the context of primary health care. It identifies and explains how these determinants affect various cultural and ethnic groups in New Zealand, analyzing their implications for overall health outcomes. The essay also examines the five principles of primary healthcare in relation to New Zealand's healthcare system, focusing on diagnosis and treatment, health education, counseling, disease prevention, and screening. Furthermore, it delves into the development of a health promotion project addressing mental health challenges in New Zealand, outlining the vision, mission, background, challenges, and future plans. The analysis extends to the application of the Ottawa Charter as a global framework for the health promotion project and explores the underpinning theories for developed health promotion projects, emphasizing the importance of creating awareness, reducing stigma, and improving access to mental healthcare services.

Primary health care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
How socio-political and cultural determinants which have impact on individual, family,
community or organisation health..........................................................................................3
Identification and explanation of socio-political and cultural health determinants which have
impact on health of three different culture or ethnic group within New Zealand..................4
Analyse the implication of health determinants to overall health outcomes in New Zealand4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Analysing five principles of primary healthcare which related to New Zealand...................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Analysing application of Ottawa Charter as global framework for health promotion project7
Analysing underpinning theories for developed health promotion projects..........................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Socio-political factor refers to the influence of public policy which have the level of
social and economic development with environment quality and well-being of citizen which
influenced by socio-political factors like education, food, income, money, employment, place
and so on. Cultural determinants refers to race, ethnicity, language, age, communication and
many more which have impact on individual health. In this essay, there is discussion about
impact of socio-political and cultural determinants on individual, family, communities or
organisations health. There is also analysis of implications of health determinants, There is also
analysis of five principles of primary healthcare related with New Zealand. This essay also
consists of health promotion projects which includes health challenge which includes vision,
mission, challenges, background and future plan. There is also analysis of Ottawa Charter
application regarding health promotions project and analysis of theories for health promotion
project development (Macdonald, (2020)).
MAIN BODY
PART 1
How socio-political and cultural determinants which have impact on individual, family,
community or organisation health
Socio-political determinant are highly effective and having various inclusion of health
policy which is highly applicable to crate variation within delivery of health of individual, family
or community along with organisation. There is highly impact of policy that plays a major role in
functioning of health care organisation which can have direct link with delivering of health and
social care. There are many policies which can impact the procedure of the organisation. This
can have impact on the procedure and function of delivering healthcare services to people.
Change or improvement in the policy can lead to create the impact on the delivery of health car
to the large population. There are also various impact of cultural determinants like Place
education, income, money, transport, employment, economy, food race, ethnicity, language are
having ability to impact the access and delivery of health of family, individual, communities or
organisation. All these factors are interrelated with each other. Right place allows to get all the
resources at the same place and can help to get better education, transport and employment.
When individual get employment then it can help to get better quality food which can help to

achieve better health. Employment helps in income and improves individual social economy and
help to invest their money to enhance their standard in life. These are related with impact the
delivery of health and also creates health inequalities on the basis of society, age etc (Fisher,
(2017)). These are having impact and can alter the service delivery of quality within health of
individuals, family, community or organisation. There are many health care premises which are
impacted due to such inequalities like economic condition that have the impact of getting
different difficulty in access to healthcare. These are some of the impact of socio-political and
cultural determinants on health. These determinants are highly effective on the health of
individual and can impact the quality of life within family, organisation or communities.
Identification and explanation of socio-political and cultural health determinants which have
impact on health of three different culture or ethnic group within New Zealand
There are various socio-political and cultural health determinants like health inequalities,
healthcare policy are some of the health determinants which have impact on health of European,
pacific peoples, Asian and MELAA are some of different culture which get impacted due to
these determinants. Health inequalities are related with access to quality healthcare which are not
provided to all the culture equally which creates various in access to health care. Healthcare
policy is also able to impact the procedure to apply healthcare services with various culture
which can impact to get better healthcare services at the right time with high effectiveness.
Analyse the implication of health determinants to overall health outcomes in New Zealand
There are various health determinant within New Zealand which includes environment,
genetics, behaviour, medical care, physical influence, social factor etc. These are the some of the
health determinants of New Zealand. These are having ability to impact the health outcomes
within country of individual, family, communities or organisation (Getnet, (2019)).
Environment plays an important role in the health outcomes. This impact individual,
family, community or organisation by impacting the delivery procedure and affecting service
delivery within healthcare. New Zealand population are highly affected due to environment there
is highly impact on the physical health which depends on different weather, working
environment, social environment etc. Medical care have also impact on overall health outcomes
which is according to getting access to care along with its quality. Quality of healthcare impact
the health outcomes within large population of New Zealand. Social factor have the implication
on the health determinants which create influence over individual, family, community (Bawack,

(2018)). Cultural determinants are the society perception which influence to that can lead to
negative health impact like anxiety, stress and others.
TASK 2
Analysing five principles of primary healthcare which related to New Zealand
Primary health care refers to the essential healthcare which are accessible to the large
population and help to get better and effective healthcare services when needed. Here, every
individual can take participation within country and should be affordable for everyone. Primary
healthcare is the approach which is beyond the healthcare system and have the focus to achieve
the quality of care for everyone. Primary health care has some basic essentials or elements or
principles which are used to deliver better health services for large population.
These principles includes diagnosis and treatment, health education, counsellings, disease
prevention and screening. These are the five health There is need to focus on these principle that
can help to focus on better delivery of health care to large population within New Zealand
(Amin, (2020)).
Diagnosis and treatment- This is the primary health care which is accessory to identify
the main cause of getting disease or any illness. This help to identify and getting ensure about
any diseases or any reason which leads to create any disease. This is the principle which helps
healthcare profession to make decision about the treatment and for the delivery of healthcare
service that can help to provide better health to individual. Diagnosis and treatment allow to
focus on the use the appropriate way to identify the health related issues which can cause illness
or disease within individual.
Health education- This the second primary healthcare principle which allows to focus on
the making education related with health to the large population. Health education helps
individual or community to focus on the better health and allows to focus on the awareness and
get educated to take protective measure that can allow individual, large population or community
to focus on better and effective health. Health education principle allows to get learn about the
healthy practices that can help to get proper education and information about the better health
and well being (Alharbi, (2018)).
Counselling- This is the primary healthcare principle which can help to make interaction
for better and effective helping process which is focused on needs, feeling and problems of

patients. This is the one which can help to get better health through adopting this principle for
better support coping, interpersonal relationship and problem solving. This is the one which
allows to deal with any issue which can be related with mental health. This refers to the
interactive session where patient or individual is able to share their expression feeling or any
issues easily and that should be confidential that those interactive session should not be shared
with anyone. Counselling allows to focus on the solution regarding any issues. This allows
individual to get better health concern. This can help to overcome through behavioural or
psychological issues for improved or better health. This can be categorised as event counselling
which is regarding any specific event, professional growth counselling can help to maintain
mental health (You, (2020)).
Disease prevention- This is the primary principle which can help to provide better health
safety regarding better health. This principle allows to focus on the taking preventive measures
that can help to avoid any type of disease or any health related issues. This refers to a protective
measure which can apply to prevent any disease or illness from occurring and should be treated
in such a manner that it can help to reduce the chances of getting ill or disease. This can help to
avoid any disease and help in treatment either at the starting phase of before any sign or
symptoms.
Screening- This is the primary healthcare principle which allows doctors or healthcare
professional for medical tests which can help to identify if there is any type of disease or health
related issues before there is any sign or symptoms. This is the procedure which can help to
identify any health related issue before it rise and may help in early treatment when possible.
There are some of health screening like height, BMI, blood pressure which can help health care
profession to identify any heath related issues (Farmanova, (2018)).
These are some of the analysis of five primary healthcare principle which are related with
population of New Zealand and can help to get better and healthy society, community or country.
TASK 3
Developing health promotion project addressing identified health challenges in New Zealand
Identified health challenge
 Mental health disorder
Vision
 To make society free form mental health disorder.

Mission
 To minimise the Mental health disorder by year 2025 by 50%.
Background
 To provide better healthcare access regarding care and support to patient with mental
health.
 To create awareness regarding mental health disorder within large population.
 To increase the number of psychiatric clinic.
 There is need to reduce the perceptions about mental health disorder for correct
information and influence them to get access to mental healthcare services for better
mental health (Yilmaz, (2018)).
Challenges
 To create awareness regarding better and effective healthcare support to patient with
mental health.
 To influence large population to support people with mental health disorder.
 To reduce the myth and wrong perceptions about mental health disorder.
 There is also need to reduce the inequalities to access to healthcare which can help to
reduce and minimise the cases of mental health disorder.
Future Plan
 To meet the mission there is need to create awareness effectively about the mental health
disorder.
 Doctor, family and individual should learn to provide care instead of making distance and
discrimination.
 There is need to make some mental healthcare premises for better healthcare to reduce
mental health disorder.
Analysing application of Ottawa Charter as global framework for health promotion project
Ottawa Charter for health promotion is the international agreement which influence to
provide better health for every individual within world. It also encourage healthcare
professionals to deliver their best services for better treatment and support for people with mental
health. This help people to enable them for increasing the control for improving their health. It is
to create awareness regarding mental and social well-being. This encourage individual to cope
with environment in their everyday life. This is to adopt healthy lifestyle for better well-being.

There are some of the fundamental condition and resources which includes shelter, peace,
education, income, food, sustainable resources, social justice etc. which should be there to make
individual life better and allow to live better and healthy life with better mental health. It also
advocate for good health one of the major resources for better quality of life. This health
promotion allows to take action for the aim to make favourable condition through health
advocacy. It also advocate for health equality and reduce differences in current mental health
status. This is applied to large population regarding mental health and for better support. It
involved families, communities or individual for better quality of lifestyle.
Analysing underpinning theories for developed health promotion projects
Weick's health communication theory (1969-1979) provides the information about the
health promotion. This provides the analysis regarding This emphasizes the communication role
along with information processing within institution and social groups. This theory focus on
communication within client and health care provider. This is the theory based on Ottawa
Charter declaration, which states that there is need to identify the group for influencing them
regarding health. This also influence to improve communication with better accuracy for
organisational adaption and transfer. This theory work with three base enactment, selection and
retention. Enactment phase have the focus about health related challenges where healthcare
provider must develop communication strategies to address health related issues. In selection
phase, for communication understandability there is need to take decision. Retention phase is the
last phase which is regarding process where learning is based on the experience about what have
better response and what have not. This provides understanding about health promotion project
to focus on better and improved mental health of individual (Sarfati, (2018)).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that there are various socio-political or
cultural determinants which have high impact on the individual, family, community or
organisation. It provides various learning and knowledge about the implication of health
determinants that impact overall health outcomes. There is analysis of five principles of primary
healthcare within New Zealand. Developing health project plan can help to focus on better health
of larger population. This can help to develop better understanding about the health related
issues. This focuses on vision, mission, background, challenges and future plan. There is also

analysis about application of Ottawa Charter framework for health promotion project. There is
also discussion about theories for health promotion project.

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