Health Reform Agenda: Australia, Asia, and Management Theories

This report examines the Health Reform Agenda, focusing on decision-making processes and global healthcare reforms. It analyzes the Australian Government Health Reform Agenda, addressing challenges related to an aging population and chronic diseases, and the reshaping of public hospitals in Asia and the Pacific. The report also explores relevant management theories, including the Public Interest Theory and Stakeholder Theory, to support the implementation of these reforms. The report incorporates a literature review with citations from relevant sources. The analysis provides insights into health policy, equity, and the importance of adapting to evolving healthcare needs. The report aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of health reform initiatives and their theoretical underpinnings.

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Introduction
Health Reform Agenda is for development and implementation what deals with
equity, equality, financial crisis and clearly defines policies, priorities to solve the problems
and improves the delivery and regulation which maintain a network of relationship between
key elements of the health system of a country. There are various health reforms agendas of
countries all over the world on different issues related to health care or health services like
reshaping public hospitals in Asia, rise in non-communicable diseases in countries like
Brazil, Russia, China and India, improvement in health and health care and challenges faced
in the health system and more (Rushefsky & Patel, 2016).
Agenda
The Australian Government Health Reform Agenda
After looking at the statistics of population, the people of age 65 years and plus were
more in proportion so they established a health reform for challenges faced during the health
system. There was an aging workforce when combining with existing health employees’
shortage other than the implication of health service demand which will make it more
difficult to meet the demands. The most of aged people living in Australia have chronic
medical conditions like heart disease, diabetes and joint stiffness problem which can cause
great risk factors such as smoking, increase in the volume of alcohol, obesity, and laziness for
not doing physical exercise. This agenda addressed major equity and access issues which can
affect the health outcome for people, redesigning the health system to attend urgent health
challenges and creation of self-improving health system for long term acceptability
(Javanparast, et al., 2018). The main priority over the diseases are concerned about the
obesity, tobacco and alcohol approaching for improvement, lower interest, managing chronic
situations better, quality improvement and avoidance focused, security, working abilities and
financial position.
Reshaping public hospitals reform agenda in Asia and the Pacific
Asia-Pacific faces the triple aim challenge to improve the quality of care and
population health and controlling health costs. The function of the public hospital sector
needs reformation and redefining within local health systems considering demographic and
medicinal transformation. The health sector has policy-makers, managers and health experts
to reshape the future of public hospitals. The reshaping of hospitals needs to be united into

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the framework of the local health system through work with cooperation and coordination
with health care facilities including private hospitals and primary care which can help in
health improvement (Gauld, Asgari-Jirhandeh, Patcharanarumol, & Tangcharoensathien,
2018). Investment in the innovating system, improvisation of management and impact of
information systems which can contribute to efficiency and cost control, another is to
repositioning health workforce abilities with appropriate skills for better delivery of services.
Creative thinking is important to build to support and flexibility to respond and fulfil needs of
patients’ and providers’ to achieve good governance and leadership which helps in increasing
financial and policy support, better incentives and fewer challenges related to the workforce.
Management Theories
To support the demands of these reforms there are management theories which can
relate to make the agendas work in an easier way (Dowding, Hindmoor, & Martin, 2016).
Public Interest Theory
The Public Interest Theory is to protect and benefit the public at large rather than
concerning about the well-being of stakeholders. This theory is for fair income distribution,
optimum utilisation of resources which is not possible but improvement can be done to
achieve efficiency. This removes the disadvantage of imperfect competition, unbalanced
market operation, missing markets and undesirable results of market. This theory can
improve the maintaining, facilitating and matching market operation for administration. They
provide freedom to contact and individual rights to property for improvement (Xiong &
Ying-yao, 2017). Public Interest is in maximum social welfare which results in cost benefit
analysis to improve the operation in the market. The cost incurred can be of formulation and
implementation, maintenance, rules and cost in changes.
Stakeholders Theory
This theory is for management of organization and business ethics which is impacted
by employees, suppliers, local communities, creditors and others which address morals and
values managing the company related to CSR, market economy and social contact. The
stakeholders’ theory is resource and market based which adds a socio-political level. This
theory defines specific stakeholders and looks at the conditions under which managers’ treats
them. In law, management and HR; this theory achieves success in challenges of analysing
usual framework by putting the stakeholders’ needs at the start of any action (Kline &
McDermott, 2019).

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