Evaluating Healthcare Facilities and Policies in South Australia

This report provides an overview of the healthcare system in South Australia, detailing the public hospitals, environmental health policies, control of communicable diseases, pathology services, emergency and ambulance services, and organ donation services. It also highlights the dental care services available, including those funded publicly and in partnership with the University of Adelaide. The report compares healthcare facilities in South Australia with those in other Australian states and OECD countries, noting the high hospitalization rates for COPD and asthma. Furthermore, it outlines strategies to improve healthcare facilities in South Australia, such as prioritizing patient needs, encouraging self-management, recognizing cultural diversity, and maintaining a balance between in-hospital and out-of-hospital care services, including primary oral health care.

Health care in South Australia

Healthcare in South Australia
• The south Australian health services provides
several important services :-
Public hospitals.
environmental health policies.
control of communicable diseases.
excellent pathology services.
emergency and ambulance services.
organ donation services.

Dental care services in South Australia
• The SA dental service also provides a wide range of
dental services for children as well as the adults.
• The dental service is publicly funded and also works
in partnership with the University of Adelaide to
train and educate a large number of State’s dental
work force.
• Children and young people under the 18 years of
age are eligible of attending the school Dental
Service.

• The older adults can have a current concession card
or a Department of Veterans affairs Pensioner
concession card.
• Australia’s first National oral health plan (National
plan) has been endorsed by the Australian ministry of
health conference.
• If one is not an Australian resident then he or she can
access the dental care service at his or her own cost.

Health care facilities all over Australia
• NSW ambulance, good health infrastructure,
Health share NSW providing corporate and
information technological services health,
NSW health pathology, E- health NSW.
• Queensland health provides with free public
hospital services across 15 service districts.
• Tasmania needs more funding when it is
coming to health.

Health care in other OECD countries
• OECD countries spend about 6 % of it GDP in
health care.
• The dental health is alarming in many
countries such as Bolivia, Poland, Phillipines,
Bolivia including Australia.
• Japan, Korea and Switzerland achieve best to
transform money into health outcome.

General health policies in South Australia
• The South Australia has taken up the health in
all policies.
• it has been implemented highly by the all the
countries of the European Union.
• The South Australian health care is half funded
by the public medicare system or by the
private insurance companies.

Best hospitals in South Australia
• The Royal Adelaide hospital
• John Hopkin’s hospital
• The Repatriation general hospital
• Flinder’s Medical centre (FMC)
• Lyell McEwin hospital (LMH)
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Comparison of health care facilities between
South Australia and other states of Australia
• Hospitalizations for COPD is highest in South
Australia compared to the other states of
Australia.
• age –sex standardized cases for asthma is
about 64.7 per 1000-00 population, compared
with the other OECD countries.
• It has got high rate of hospital admissions for
the chronic diseases.

Strategies taken up to improve health care facilities in South Australia
• Keeping patient as the primary objectives of all kinds of
planning of the health services.
• Encouraging self management
• Recognition of the needs of people from culturally diverse
background, such as the aboriginals.
• To maintain a balance between the in hospital and the out of
hospital care services.
• Providing intermediate or primary health care service
regarding oral health
• Provision of appropriate Medicare services in terms of
general and oral health.