A Report on Health System Reform in Australia: Combating Obesity

This report discusses the health system reform in Australia, motivated by the need to address health issues like obesity. The Australian health department initiated various health care services and programs to tackle obesity, a condition characterized by excessive body fat, leading to other health problems. Factors contributing to obesity include energy intake, genetics, environmental changes, and behavioral and social factors. The report highlights symptoms and prevention strategies, including lifestyle changes, physical activities, and drug therapy. It presents data on overweight and obesity percentages from 1995 to 2012, showing a decrease in overweight individuals but an increase in obese individuals. The inclusion of obesity in the list of national health priorities in 2008 reflects the government's commitment to addressing this issue. The document concludes that the health system reform has provided relief to the people of Australia from obesity.

ABSTRACT
Motivation- health system reform is a process which consists the discussion about the health system
which is already exist in a country. There are two possibilities under the health system reform process,
either the existing system will have some changes in it or the whole system will be replaced by the new
one. In Australia the motivation to reform the health system came after the evaluation of a particular area,
the people are suffering from the various dangerous health disease. For providing the health care services
to those people the health system reform has to be done with the support of government and some health
experts. In this context the Australian health department have took the initiative as they are providing so
many health care services in which the obesity is also included which is a major problem with the people
of Australia. Obesity is a medical condition in which the body fat increases (Zhou and McDonough,
(2014).). The metabolism of the body works so slowly and it do not support, in so many cases it leads to
some other hazardous disease like cancer, heart problems, diabetes etc. The obesity has a basic property
that so many people have ate so little but their body weight increases so rapidly. This disease should be
degraded from the people so Australia health department have decided to implement some programs
which can be favorable for the patients who are suffering from this unconditional disease.
Causes- There are so many factors observed by the medical experts which can make impact on a
human body as obesity. These factors can be seen as causes of this disease in which the energy
intake is the main cause, it implies that the amount of food depends on the age on a person. Also
the size of body and the physical activities done by that person does matter in consuming the
food. If there is a lady and she is pregnant so her body will convert the all the protein,
carbohydrate and fact into the energy which she wants to bear that pain. The energy intake is
decided already by the experts as children intake is about 6000 kilojoules, 9000 kilojoules for the
adolescents and 10000 kilojoules for the adults aged 19 and above. The reason behind the obesity
also can be seen as if someone’s body consumes more calories and ultimately it burns. Some
people believes that obesity is a result of more eating and less exercising. There are some factors
which are also responsible for the obesity in the human body, such as it can be genetic, the
environmental change can increase the weight of a person, the behavioral factors are
considerable and so many social factors like at some places the person cannot for any physical
exercise due to its busy schedule (Shen and Snowden, (2014)). The genetic impact on a person
which forces him to gain more weight, increases the risk of high obesity. The person who is
totally inactive and his lifestyle and schedule have not physical activity resulting he is so

unhealthy, in such situation the risk % may increases. There are some conditions like BED which
refers to the binge eating disorder, the disease of Cushing, these can be the reason for the weight
gain and ultimately obesity. This disease is quite complicated to be analyzed. The symptoms can
be seen as problems in breathing, the various disorders associated with the breathing like sleep
apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease etc. In some other cases obesity can be the
symptom of cancers like in men, prostate and bowel cancer and in women breast and uterine
cancer. Depression, diabetes, gallbladder and liver problems and the GERD (gastro esophageal
reflux disease) are also some major health issue which may be seen due to obesity.
Preventions and treatment- Australia health department have started so many programs and
events in which people have knew about the various prevention strategies which can be used for
decreasing the weight that will make the chances of obesity so low. If the lifestyle of a person
will have changes then it can be prevented. The person should do start some physical activities in
its daily routine. People may go for the physical counselling for getting out of any physical
disorder. The drug therapy is also an option to come over from the obesity. The people who have
27 BMI are suffering with obesity.
Result- The health system reform in Australia is done under the supervision of Australia health
department. In this process the discussion is done on the various modification and replacement of
the existing health system. From 1995 to 2012 the risk % and the number of overweight people
have decreased with a big difference. In 1995 overweight % was about 38% and obese % was 18
then in 2007 overweight people are about 36% and obese people are 25% but in 2012 the
overweight % is about 35 but the obese % was increased to 28% which is the main reason to do
this system reform in Australia. But at the other hand children of age 2-3 years in Australia has
been observed as the overweight and obesity both are got down from 15 to 6 and from 17 to 4
respectively (Davis and Rayburn, (2016).). This health system reform have gave a big relief to
the people of Australia from the obesity. The obesity have added in the list of national health
priorities by the Australian federal government in 2008.
Conclusion- In this summary the discussion is all about health system reform. To provide
health care services this process has been initiated by the Australia health department. They have
done survey of people who have overweight and suffering from the obesity. Then for these kind
of patients the organization have conducted so many operations and health care services as if

people will go through all those programs then they will have the prevention strategies and also
the treatment has been provided to them.

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