PUBH6002: Analyzing Inequitable Healthcare Access in Papua New Guinea

This presentation addresses the global health issue of inequitable access to healthcare, vaccines, and medicines in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It highlights the historical context, health impacts, socio-political and geopolitical impacts, and economic consequences of this inequity, particularly on economically disadvantaged and rural populations. The presentation identifies key objectives to determine the impact on people living in poverty, targeting vulnerable groups such as children and adults who are disproportionately affected by communicable and non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, and HIV. The proposed solution involves improved medical accessibility, better education, enhanced transportation and nutritional facilities. Key stakeholders, including governments, educators, physicians, pharmacists, non-profit organizations, and insurance companies, are identified, along with various communication methods such as public relations, paid advertising, and word-of-mouth strategies to address the issue. The presentation concludes that the population of Papua New Guinea faces significant challenges in accessing healthcare due to low economic conditions, inadequate nutrition, and poor transportation infrastructure, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive action plan to tackle these disparities.

Global Health Issue:
“Inequitable access to
healthcare, vaccines, and
medicines”
P UBH6002 – Global and Environmental Health
Issues
Group 4 members:

Inequitable access to healthcare, vaccines, and
medicines
• Key points
here
Presented by:
Historical
Context

Health
Impacts• Key points
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Presented by:

Socio-political
impact
Geo-political
impact
Presented by:
• Key points
here
• Key points
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• As the economy of Papua new guinea is still struggling.
• The inequitable access to healthcare facilities, vaccine and
medication increases the burden.
• However the improvement are easily attainable by the help
of simple and inexpensive means, there is a serious deficits
in quality of health care.
Presented
Economic
impact
Population
disproportionately
impacted by the issue
• The Economically disadvantaged people and the Rural
population are highly impacted by the inequitable access.
• The rising cost of the healthcare or medical facilities making it
more tough to get access.
• The service provider does not want to establish their facilities
in small, rural communities because the population lack the
money to pay to the services.

Objectiv
e
Presented by:
• To determine impact of inequitable access to
healthcare, vaccine and medicines among people
living in poverty in the Papua New Guinea.
Addressing the issue

Target
population• The children's and the adults are highly
vulnerable and susceptible to the diseases.
• They are more prone to develop
communicable as well as non-communicable
diseases.
• It has been found that about 35 % child's are
below the standard weight according to their
age and 27 % children population are
undernourished.
• 1.8 % people from adult generation are
infected with HIV.
Target
Outcome
Presented
• Improved medical accessibility
• Better education
• Transportation facility
• Nutritional facility

Key
Stakeholders
Presented by:
• Governments
• Educator
• Physicians
• Pharmacist
• Non profitable organisations
• Insurance companies
Communication
Plan
• The communication methods
involve various categories like Public
relations which includes community
relations, Government relations,
print and broadcast media relation
and websites.
• Another categories are paid
advertising which include radio,
print, TV, Mall displays and last
categories includes word of mouth
such as public meetings and
participation and personal contacts
(Laursen, Simonsen, & Grønning
(2022)).

Conclusion
Presented by:
From the above discussion, it can be
concluded that the population of Papua
New Guinea have very low or unequal
access to the healthcare facilities. The
reason for this are the low economic
conditions, improper nutritional diet
and nor proper facilities of
transportation. For the this, a proper
action plan is discussed which include
the target audience, the outcome
which are targeted, various stakeholder
involved and the effective
communication methods to tackle this
issue.

THANK YOU!
Group 4

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