Healthcare Management Report: Healthcare and HIV/AIDS Analysis

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of healthcare management, focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on global health systems. It examines the crucial roles of nurses as primary caregivers, coordinators, and educators within healthcare settings, emphasizing their contributions to patient care and community health education. The report analyzes the economic and social consequences of HIV/AIDS, highlighting its effects on labor productivity, government spending, and international trade. It compares healthcare outcomes across different countries, such as the US and Australia, considering factors like healthcare infrastructure, professional expertise, and preventative measures. The analysis further explores how political, economic, social, and cultural forces influence health outcomes, particularly concerning the spread and management of HIV/AIDS. The report concludes by underscoring the importance of managerial healthcare careers in ensuring the effective training and equipping of healthcare professionals, and in addressing health disparities across different regions and populations, advocating for well-established health services and investment in healthcare.

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Introduction
Healthcare management is a kind of process which seeks to ensure that operations in
different stakeholder of healthcare institution are running correctly. For healthcare institutions
which apply healthcare management correctly, they tend to offer high-quality products and
services to their clients. However, the surrounding environment of healthcare sectors nowadays
seems to have some forces which demand extraordinary changes in the organizations. This
change includes demographic change, competition from other institution and customer demands.
For a healthcare organization to be able to meet all these requirements and conquer this forces, it
requires to apply strong healthcare management actions to be able to produce new values.
Pressures are rising as healthcare organizations are looking for ways to reduce costs and to
enhance the quality of their services and products. Even though in the past people had to travel a
long distance in search of healthcare institutions to get medications, nowadays they are located
all over, and patients and people can access them quickly. Health care institution comprises of
many professionals from doctors, pharmacist, dieticians, therapists and nurses who all work
together to ensure that they maintain the health o citizens. The task they perform is not as easy as
people view them as they need a lot of skills and professionalism.
Question#1
In hospitals, nurses act as primary caregivers for patients. They give intervention to meets
the psychological, physical and spiritual needs of patients and families using nursing processes
and critical thinking skills. As primary caregivers, nurses are knowledgeable and caring as they
have to give high-quality services to patients. It is also their role to prevent infection and illness
through health promotion and maintenance (Toussaint & Berry, 2013). They also act as
coordinators who are an essential part of the multidisciplinary care team whose aim is to work

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towards the improvement of the patient's outcomes. Nurse's coordinator role rotates around the
patient's physical and psychological assessment and support. Nurses are also responsible for
maintaining clinical competence as well as participating in activities which highly contributes to
the development of self and other healthcare professionals. They also have the role of engaging
in educational needs of clinical nurses by participating in both informal and formal education
programs at national and international levels. Nurses are supposed to respect the patient's
decisions which help to boost their autonomy (LeBlanc et al., 2013). Nurses should make sure
that they maintain a healthy relationship with patients because they are the ones who present the
patient's interests. In education and organizational training, nurses play a significant role of
teaching the patients and the society at large the on the importance of maintaining hygiene to
prevent infections like cholera and also some measures which they can take to avoid getting
infected. For cases of diseases like the STIs, the society is taught some means of controlling the
conditions which include the use of condoms during sexual intercourse and by remaining faithful
to their sexual partners. It also the role of the nurses to teach the society on how they can handle
the sick in the community by showing them love and caring or them so that they cannot feel
isolated which may end up worsening their health condition (Landsbergis, Grzywacz &
LaMontagne, 2014). In health educational centers, nurses also teach the patients on how they can
adapt their new lifestyle in case a patient has AIDs and how to accept their new looks, in fact,
they had gone through an operation which let them with missing body parts.
Question#2:
HIV/AIDs has a lot of impacts to the government in almost every each country. Due to
the high death rates associated with the disease the government experiences reduced labor
productivity. The government incomes also lowered due to the decrease in tax revenues and the

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government is also highly forced to increase their spending trying to implement methods in
which it can reduce the spread of the infection to the society (Caniato, Vaccari, Visvanathan &
Zurbrügg, 2014). Countries which are profoundly affected by this kind of illness have indicated
decreased exports and increased imports. This is because the productivity of the nation is
reduced due to high employee absenteeism in various organizations to handle their weak health
condition. Therefore, the government is forced to import a lot of product and services from other
countries to be able to satisfy their citizen's needs. The state is also forced to introduce expensive
healthcare products and services to take good care of the victims. The government also incur a
lot of losses as it has to cater to healthcare cost and burial fees for the victim who fails to survive
the infection. Due to high employee turnover in different government institutions, the
government is forced to spend a lot of capital in training new, inexperienced employees. It has a
negative impact on the government economy (Carman et al., 2013). This is because the
government role in the healthcare sector will continue to be pressurized under the increased
demand due to direct response. The expenditure of the government as it tries to manage the
disease increases.
Question#3:
In the US the hospital admission of patients with Aids is very low as compared to other
OECD countries because they have some stable models and plans for managing the infection, so
a very few numbers of its citizens have the disease. Death rates for AIDs infections are meager
as compared to OECD country like Australia which is still developing as stated by Ventura-
Garcia et al. (2013). This is because developing countries have to import healthcare services
even and drugs to manage the disease and sometimes they are costly they can't afford them
leading to shortages in their hospitals and AIDS patients don't get proper medication which has

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led to high death rates. Jørgensen Xu & Costanza (2016) claims that the US has more skilled and
competent professional in the field of healthcare as compared to Australia. This has enabled the
country to be able to manage various infection in the country as well as educating the society on
some prevention measures which they can put in place to avoid been affected by multiple
diseases. In case of AIDs, the US whose economy is stable has been able to distribute condoms
in various institutions so that people can use them which are highly recommended in the
prevention of AIDs during sexual intercourse (Wohlfeiler et al., 2013). On the other end, some
other OECD countries like Israel cannot be able to do the same which has led to the high spread
of the infection.
Question#4
Different countries have different health outcomes for AIDS due to various political,
economic, social and cultural forces differences. In the economic point of view, countries whose
financial status is not stable like in the developing OECD countries, they are not able to provide
the best services and drugs to its citizens who are suffering from AIDs. Due to the unfortunate
economic situation, the most OECD countries are also not able to have adequate measures of the
infection. According to Costigan, Barnett, Plotnikoff & Lubans (2013), some medical services
and drugs are expensive and even not available in all countries, with the weak economy a nation
like Australia is not able to import them. OECD countries which continuously have political
crisis like Korea its citizens suffer. This is because sometimes they are restricted in their
movement and so when a patient needs emergency medical attention they are not able to access
health care facilities which can worsen their condition or even death. Cultural differences can
affect the health sector significantly. The spread of infections like HIV/AIDs is highly spread in
countries like Switzerland with practice polygamous marriages as compared to the ones who

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practice monogamous (Squires et al., 2013). By having very many sexual partners a citizen may
end up infected by the disease. Wife inheritance which is also highly practiced by most of
developing countries has also contributed to the spread of AIDs. Ignorance of individual can also
affect their health like not going to the hospital when sick or not following doctor's prescription.
Conclusion
Managerial healthcare career is essential within the health sector as it focuses on ensuring
that nurses and other professionals within this field are trained and equipped with know-how and
skills for carrying out their duties accordingly. People in various stakeholder groups are affected
differently by infections like AIDs and other diseases. Infections adversely affect these groups
because when people fall sick withdraw from work and this lowers the productivity of the nation.
More resources are allocated by the respective government to control the infections. Different
regions have different health standards as well is disease prevalent. The differences arise because
of the various economic developments, availability of resources among other many factors.
Developed countries have well-established health services because they invest highly in health
sector compared to developing countries.

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