MBA621 Healthcare: Royal Flying Doctor Service & Elderly Population

This case study assignment analyzes the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) in the context of Australia's ageing population and how well it meets their healthcare needs. It begins with an introduction to the RFDS, highlighting its role in providing primary healthcare services to rural and remote areas, with a focus on aged individuals. The analysis covers the RFDS's structure, services, and the characteristics of the elderly population, including the impact of ageing on health and mortality. It then evaluates the clinical and population effectiveness of the RFDS through its aeromedical retrieval, dental care, patient transfer, clinics, mental health, and telehealth services. The study also considers non-medical services like health education and research. Furthermore, the assignment assesses production and allocative efficiency, procedural and substantive equity, and provides recommendations for improving service delivery, resource allocation, and worker compensation within the RFDS.

HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of he University
Author note

INTRODUCTON
• The chosen organization for this assignment is the Royal Flying Doctor service.
• This organization is one of the largest and also one of the completed aeromedical
organization throughout he world.
• This organization has been developed for providing immediate and primary healthcare
services to people belonging from rural and remote areas of Australia.
• The organization gives most importance to the aged persons.

DESCRIPTION
• The RFDS is comprised of seven legal entities-
• RFDA of Australia
• central operations, Queensland section
• South Eastern Section
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western operations.

CHARCTERISTICS OF AGED PEOPLE
• The older people comprises a considerable portion of Australia’s
population.
• More than 1 in 7 people were either 65 years of age or more than that.
• As the age of a person gets increased their health status decreases

IMPACT ON AGED PEOPLE
• The increase in the number of population size of the age people increase
to a chance of the leading cause of death.
• The causes of death can be bot communicable and non-communicable
diseases (Aboagye‐Sarfo et al., 2015).

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS
• This organization provides services to the people belonging to rural and
remote areas however the priority of this organization is the aged persons.
• Almost 50% of the people whom the organization provides services are
the older people.

POLUALTION EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH MEDICAL SERVICES
Among the medical population services it performs the following activities:
1. Aeromedical retrieval
2. Dental care

POLUALTION EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH MEDICAL
SERVICES
3. Patient transfer
4. Clinics

POLUALTION EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH MEDICAL SERVICES
5. Mental health
6. Tele-health

POLUALTION EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH NON-MEDICAL SERVICES
• The organization is also very effective in providing non-medical services
like
1. Health education
2. Researches

PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY IN RELATION TO THE CLINICAL
PERSPECTIVES
• This organization spend huge amount of money for the purpose of treating
the patients suffering from several diseases.
• It try to provide the best quality of treatment the lowest cause. The
organization is not earning much benefits while providing the treatment.

PRODUCTIN EFFICIENCY IN RELATION TO THE POPULATION
PERSPECTIVES
• The populations or the patients who are involved in receiving the
treatments from the organization were benefitted from the services.
• If the efficiency of production in relation to the efficiency of the populations
are considered then it can be said the production efficiency was maximum.