Therapeutic Recreation and Health Services Management Professions

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Therapeutic Recreation and Health Services Management Professionals, detailing their duties, responsibilities, and the institutional contexts in which they operate. It highlights the effectiveness of therapeutic recreation professionals in providing quality leisure activities to clients with disabilities and special needs, while also emphasizing the vital role of health services management professionals in creating healthcare budgets, facilitating patient access to care within insurance limits, and managing billing services. The report discusses the key skills required by these professionals and the client groups they serve. Furthermore, it examines their contributions to addressing human rights and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), concluding that while their scope may not encompass all SDGs, they can significantly impact goals related to no hunger, health and well-being, equity, and sustainable communities. The report also identifies local and global challenges these professionals may face in achieving SDGs, such as funding limitations, cultural barriers, aging populations, and data biases.

Running head: HEALTH CARE
Health care
Name of the student
Name of the University:
Author’s note

1HEALTH CARE
Sustainable Development Goals and Health
Recreation therapy professionals can address human rights and sustainable development
goals (SDGs) during their professional practice by ensuring that their clients are not deprived
from basic human rights such as good health, sustainable use of terrestorial ecosystem and
inequalities. Leisure is an aspect of basic human rights that promotes psychosocial development
and quality of life of client. Hence, recreational therapist can work to implement holistic
intervention that includes enjoyment and positive emotions for the clients, addressing food
insecurity as well as education to protect environment during recreational activities. For
example, Juckett and Robinson (2019) gives the evidence that due to expertise of recreational
therapist in promoting health, they can promote healthy eating behaviour in clients by
implementing client-centred intervention and providing accessible environment for health well-
being. However, some challenges that they may encounter locally in achieving SDGs include
lack of funding support to address health inequity and the challenges faced globally will be to
deal with cultural barriers in promoting peaceful and inclusive societies.
Health service management professionals play a role in achieving the SDG of good
health and well-being by understanding the challenges associated in accessing care for
vulnerable client by taking feedback from client and using those information to reduce billing
and cost associated barrier that lead to health inequity. Some of the challenges that these
professionals can face in achieving the SDG in Australia includes the impact of aging population
on the health systems and addressing multi-morbidity rates for people in poorest and remote
areas. Increased use of health services by older age group and lack of clinical expertise in remote
areas might be a challenge (McPake & Mahal, 2017). The challenges that these professionals can

2HEALTH CARE
encounter globally includes identifying data for unbiased identification of needs and using it to
influence care in primary, secondary and community setting (Raine et al., 2016).
Conclusion:
To conclude, the report gave an insight into main duties and responsibility of a
Therapeutic Recreation and Health Services Management Professionals. From the discussion
regarding the nature of work worked performed by each of them and the institutional context in
which they practice, it can be concluded that therapeutic recreation professionals are effective in
providing qualities leisure activities to client with disability and special needs, whereas health
services management professionals play a vital role in creating health care budgets, helping
patients to access care within the limits of insurance and managing billing services. The report
discussed about the key skills required by the two professionals and the type of client group with
which they interact. From the discussion regarding the role of these two professionals in
addressing human rights and the SDGs, it can be concluded that although they do not have the
scope to address all SDGs, however they can work to address the goal of no hunger, health and
well being, equity and sustainable communities.

3HEALTH CARE
References:
Juckett, L. A., & Robinson, M. L. (2019). The Occupational Therapy Approach to Addressing
Food Insecurity among Older Adults with Chronic Disease. Geriatrics, 4(1), 22.
McPake, B., & Mahal, A. (2017). Addressing the needs of an aging population in the health
system: the Australian case. Health Systems & Reform, 3(3), 236-247.
Raine, R., Fitzpatrick, R., Barratt, H., Bevan, G., Black, N., Boaden, R., ... & Dixon-Woods, M.
(2016). Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service
innovations in health care and public health. Health Services and Delivery
Research, 4(16).