Strategic Healthcare Plan for South Western Sydney District - Analysis

This report provides a detailed analysis of a strategic healthcare plan for a health facility located in the South Western part of Sydney. It projects a ten-year plan based on the anticipated 20% population increase. The report covers various aspects, including an executive summary, introduction, policy planning framework, determinants of health (policymaking, biology, genetics, individual behavior, social factors, and health factors), relevance of mobility and mortality data, and a conclusion. The plan addresses the healthcare needs of a growing and aging population, particularly the Aboriginal community, and emphasizes the importance of open, collaborative, and empowered systems. It also highlights the significance of considering demographic factors, determinants of health, and the impact of policymaking on public health. The report underscores the need for innovative approaches, community involvement, and a focus on equality to ensure effective healthcare service provision in the future.

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Strategic Healthcare Plan
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Institution

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Executive Summary
This report offers an analysis and evaluation on the plan for health care provision by a
health facility located in a District South West of the city of Sydney that seeks to give a
projection of ten-year plan based on the growing trend of the population. As per the trend of
growth in the population, it is having been projected that in ten years’ time that the population
will increase by 20% which implies that the local District Health will be the most populated
health care provider in the South Western part of Sydney.

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Table of Contents
Cover Page………………………………………………………………………….……………1
Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………...2
Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………………...3
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………4
Policy Planning Framework………………………………………………………………………7
Determinants of health……………………………………………………………………………8
Policymaking……………………………………………………………………………………...8
Biology and Genetics……………………………………………………………………………...9
Individual Behavior……………………………………………………………………………….9
Social Factors……………………………………………………………………………………...9
Health Factors………………………………………………………………………………...…...9
Relevance Mobility and mortality data……………………………………………………...…...10
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….11
References…………………………………………………………………………………….….12

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Introduction
As it will always be wisely said that failing to plan is equal to planning to fail and matters health
care to any given society or population is very core to its very existence. In our area of coverage
for study, that is South Western part of Sydney an area that is dominated by the Aborigine
people, a population that is growing at a very fast rate and at same time aging fast, there needs to
be an appropriate health care system that will handle this population’s health concerns (Breuer et
al. 2016). An early management plan ought to be worked out to carter this for the needs of both
in the present terms and in the future. Owing to the fact that the healthcare attention for this
particular population spans from mental to chronic ailments there needs to be developed plans
that are tailored to meet these needs.
With an annual growth rate of 18000 for every three years, it has projected that population in the
ten years will translate to over one million. In the projection, it is anticipated that there will be a
rapid growth in the population of folks under the older age group and this is anticipated that it
will place a skewed demand on the healthcare service needs with half of these in this growth
being folks falling in the age of 70 and above. The resultant effect of a higher demand for health
care services will be occasioned by an influx in population, an increase in the survival rate from
previous killer ailments and prolonged aging The South Western Local Health District is
encompassed with people of diverse background both Socially and economically that do portray
deprivation levels and deprivation is closely related to greater needs for health and at the same
time displaying results that are below par on matters health and this would subsequently impart
in escalated demand for health-related attention. Across the whole region of the SWSLHD, there
is a notable variance in issues touching health where the regular death rate if compared to that of

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the state is more. The populace of the SWSLHD is closely associated with high rates of
tendencies to poor health rankings and low aspects of caring health. In comparison to the health
ranking with NSW, the state of health ion the SWS poorer and the government has identified
parts that need attention and action in the order of priority. They are asthma, stroke, fallings, high
levels of BMI that require hospitalizations, deaths that are resultant from lung cancer and
diabetes and cardiovascular. It has been shown that poor state of health will bear a brunt on the
demand for health care services. The most important challenge to handle for the SWSLHD here
is to come up with the best health care arrangement that will cater for needs of the increasing
population’s demand, that will be open, appropriate, and apt. This should be incorporated with
the right structures and modeling that enhances better provision for health care services coupled
with modernized ways of providing treatments and preventive measures.
This is very possible if strategy adopted would be that of incorporating members of the
concerned community, their leaders, the clinical expertise, their staff, the youth and all
stakeholders that they come up with designed models of handling the health matters in the
society. The purpose of this plan is to make sure that systems’ foundational values are open, are
respected, are collaborating and at the same time empowered and they do gel with future systems
and the 2021 vision of South Western Sydney LHD attaining ‘’Leading care healthier
communities’’ is realized (Nickerson, Adams, Attaran, Hatcher-Roberts, & Tugwell, 2014).For
the vision of ‘’Leading care’’ to be realized it will require a concerted effort from all fronts that
will put their efforts on training, safety, quality upgrade literacy, on the job training, and at the
same time research so as to instill the excellent practices in the health sector. Communities can
be regarded as healthy if the community itself and the concerned patients are the focal points of

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the provision of the health services. The provision of this care should one that covers all aspects
of the communities i.e. socially and culturally by getting acquainted with ways of promptly
converting researches into medical practice. The bigger picture captured by the paper is to
identify all spheres that need to be encompassed for the success in the strategic planning.
The vision of the Southwest of Sydney Local Health District as it’s been shown involves
fundamental values that are being innovative and at the same time collaborating and all this will
demand for concerted efforts of teaming up together and partnering with all disciplines related to
health care and at same time also with persons at the individual levels and the at community
level. In this teamwork, all agents concerned with health matters should also be brought on board
(Chen, Hui, Lang, & Tao, 2016). The sole purpose of partnering and teaming up with the
community is to get acquainted with their basic requirements and also to know what are their
values. The goal for this is to make provision of unhindered health care that is at the same time
incorporated with plans for the future. Being Innovative will demand a habit of seeking and
venturing into provision new modes of doing service with the full knowledge and understanding
of available opportunities for transformation in the future (Tessema, et al. 2017) The role of the
District is by assessing the systems, boost health care based researches through the provision of
incentives to spur more innovative initiatives.
The most important aspect of the vision and task will be strengthened by centering their efforts
on equality. The focus should be driving their efforts towards reaching them in the society that is
deprived, enabling the ailing to have the ease to access to health care services and at the same
time give assurance of doctor-patience confidentiality with an enhanced free flow of information
(Wariki, et al. 2015)

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The planning approach assumed is built on the one that was established by the previous
administrations and the foundation is that these existing plans are still relevant and from the is
just to expand and better them for better provision of health care services in the future.
Lots of hope has been pegged on the vision displayed by the District health care provider through
its strategic plans for the future and the yearning for many is that these plans are realized to make
it a leader in the provision of healthcare services both at the local level and at the national level.
Policy Planning Framework
Demography is one of the most vital components for consideration for all policymakers when
drafting plans to bring about development in any given economy. The understanding of the given
population, its progression, spread, and its configuration is of very great importance to the
policymakers. With the full knowledge of the population, the development plans will be tailored
to accommodate the dynamics of the population. In the classical planning for development,
elements touching on the population were thought not to be pivotal in development plans. Most
of these elements were viewed as being peripheral when it came to matters development
planning but with the broadening base of the of matters development, there arises the need to
incorporate matters touching on the population so as to make definite projections (Slowey, et al.
2016) This is very vital for the policymakers because armed with the configurations of the
population the can come up with projections on the growth or decline in per capita income. With
the configuration of the population, its become easy to predict the availability of labor from the
population in the future. The demand for social amenities such as schools and hospitals can be
determined from the projections of the population. In the past, it had assumed that there is was
no link between elements touching population, a notion that needs to be discarded because in last

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twenty years it has been established through studies that there is indeed a slowing- impact on
developments
Determinants of health
These are the elements in the environment, in the economy, in the society and also individual
that affects the state of health.
They fall under different groupings:
• Policymaking
• Biology and genetics
• Individual behavior
• Social factors
• Health factors
Policymaking
Policies formulated have always had an impact on the health of the individuals and the
population at large for instance policies formulated increase taxes on products laced with tobacco
would improve the health of the population by discouraging use of tobacco items (Digitale,
Psaki, Soler-Hampejsek, & Mensch, 2017).
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Biology and Genetics
These are factors that can be biased between populations, as in, these are factors that can be
marked out with one set population while another population isn’t affected. For instance, older
folks are susceptible to ailments than those in the teenage age group. Sickle cell ailment that is

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genetic that hereditary and study indicates that is commonly associated with people from West
African nations, Mediterranean, South and Central American nations, Caribbean islands and
Saudi Arabia. Examples of biological and genetic social determinants are Sex, Age, Hereditary
conditions such as sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and hemophilia, HIV status, History of a
family on heart ailments (Lund, Tomlinson, & Patel, 2016).
Individual Behavior
The way an individual conduct himself or herself can be impactful to health, for instance, should
someone gave to smoking decide to stop smoking his or her risk of heart complications will have
been reduced. Examples to this would be: Physical activity, diet watch, and hygiene (Daff, Seck,
Belkhayat, & Sutton, 2014)
Social Factors
These are elements that touch on the environment where people are brought up, living, playing,
working and also age. Examples of these would be safe in the public and resource availability.
Health Factors
The availability and accessibility of health amenities have a great effect on health. The absence
of health amenities has a detrimental effect on the health of individuals. For instance, medically
insured folks are bound to participate in precautionary care while those without are likely to
defer seeking medical attention.
The burden of Disease Data for the selected population
This is the assessment done on the state of the population’s health by looking at the rate of deaths
for instance deaths such as mortality rate in children. Diseases are experienced regularly from the

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perspective of global disease burden by the region. Some region tends to have more diseases
affecting their areas compared to other regions of the globe. Asia has been the part of the globe
leading on the disease data as most of its population are affected by diseases.
The burden of disease data can also be looked at the perspective of age. The age can be seen as a
factor that affects the composition of data affecting the global population. In recent years there
has been declined in the health burden of infant below the age of five years (Kaye & Dhar,
2016). The burden of disease data can be seen from a perspective of disease by cause. Diseases
can be grouped into different categories namely: injuries, neonatal, nutritional diseases,
communicable and maternal. The burden of disease data can also be seen from a perspective of
income. Some scholars argue out that an individual income is directly proportional to his or her
income. The data collected shows that areas with low per capita income tend to contract more
diseases.
Relevance Mobility and mortality data
The death and birth records are usually essential to the government and health stakeholders
because it can be used as a parameter to show the health of a nation Morbidity data also show the
disease that is affecting the population that leads to the death of that population.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the strategy to be adopted by the SWSLHD is becoming a leader in providing
health services to the entire population. The nation should ensure that it takes all demographic
elements into consideration for it to be able to accommodate the future needs of the population.

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