what role do health care facilities and services play in achieving better health for all australians Flashcards
Range and Types of Health Facilities and Services
- Primary Health Care
- Secondary Health Care
- Hospitals
- Prescription drugs are subsidised through the Commonwealth Government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
- PBS Safety Net caps the amount a family will pay for PBS subsidised medications in a calendar year
Range and Types of Health Facilities and Services: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
- GP
- Nurse
- Midwives
Range and Types of Health Facilities and Services: SECONDARY HEALTH CARE
- Care provided by those who don’t have first point of contact with patients
- Occurs after referral by a primary health care provider
- Specialists
Range and Types of Health Facilities and Services: HOSPITAL
- Public Hospital
- Private Hospital
- Pharmaceuticals
- Nursing Home
Responsibility for Health Facilities and Services
- Commonwealth Government
- State and Territory Governments
- Private Sector
- Local Government
- Community Groups
Responsibility for Health Facilities and Services: COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT
- Formation of national health policies and the control of health system financing through the collection of taxes
- Health research
- Mental Health Programs
- Immunisation
Responsibility for Health Facilities and Services: STATE AND TERRITORY GOVERNMENT
- Public Hospital
- Dental health services
- Health promotion
Responsibility for Health Facilities and Services: PRIVATE SECTOR
- Private hospitals
- Dentists
- Alternative health service
Responsibility for Health Facilities and Services: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Environmental control
- Sanitation and hygiene standards in home care services
- Waste disposal
Responsibility for Health Facilities and Services: COMMUNITY GROUP
- Address problems specific to a region
E.G. Cancer Council Australia involved in research of cancer trends to promote awareness of protective factors to help all Australians reduce risk.
Equity of Access to Health Facilities and Services
- Medicare
- Medicare Safety Net
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Royal flying doctors
- e-Health records
- Telehealth technology
Medicare
- Allow simple and equitable access to all Australian citizens regardless of location and socio-economic status
Medicare Safety Net
- The amount of what people need to pay is capped
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Government subsidising medicines
Healthcare Expenditure
- Allocation of economic resources for the provision and consumption of health services
- Expenditure from Australian government, private health insurance, and households
- Has been increasing due to focus on ‘curative’ medicine
- Funding for health promotion and illness prevention has increased in recent years
Intervention and Prevention
- New public health model emphasises health promotion as the most cost-effective to address the social issues of health
- People whose health is sound due to positive health behaviours resent paying increased taxes
- Preventative programs such as QUIT, SunSmart have increased over the past 2 decades
Strategies for Prevention
- Educating school children about positive health behaviours
- Restrictions on advertising
- Higher taxes on products such as alcohol and tobacco
Medicare
- Payed by Commonwealth Government and Taxpayers
- Free or subsidised treatment as a public patient in a public hospital by medical practitioners (GP and Specialist)
- Medicare is funded from general taxation revenue and Medicare Levy (2% of each taxpayer’s income)
- Australian is covered for 85% the amount
Bulk Bill
- Patient pays nothing and doctors receive 85% of the scheduled fee from Medicare.
Private Health Insurance
- Payed by Commonwealth Governments and Private Contributors
- Monthly premiums
- Ancillary services, dental, optical
- Cover while overseas
- Join before 30 years old gets reduced cost
