Week 2: Health Care in Australia Flashcards
What is the first point of contact with the health care system?
Primary health care (non-hospital services)
True or False: Primary health care is the most common point of contact between individuals and health care services?
True
Funding of primary health care
- largely private for-profit
- public subsidised
- Funded through medicare, PBS, private health insurance, consumer payments
commonwealth role in primary health care?
financing through Medicare and PBS
where do patterns of inequity arise in primary health care?
increase in consumer demand leads to an increase in consumer payment
link between Social work and primary health care?
- focus on broad determinants of health
- coordination, integration of services
- health promotion focus
social work opportunity in primary health care
- navigating complex systems
- analysis of problems in social environments
- limited funding base
use of public hospitals is highest for patients where? why?
in very remote and/or disadvantaged areas
use of private hospitals is highest for patients where?
major cities
increases that result in challenges for public hospitals?
- increase hospitalisations
- increase ‘sub-acute’ patients
- increase waiting times to access outpatient services
- increase focus on expenditure and efficiency and performance reports
Focus of sub-acute services
physical/function improvement and quality of life
funding of sub-acute services
mix private and public providers
- increasing investment in services
when would someone need palliative care services?
serious illness where cure or reversal is no longer possible. controlling symptoms.
true or false. palliative care is just for the person nearing end of life?
false. it is also for family, friends.
funding for palliative care?
diverse network of formal and informal providers.
