What role do health care facilities and services play in achieving better health for Australians? Flashcards
What are the types of health care facilities?
institutional and non- institutional
Institutional examples
government owned: public hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric
Non- Institutional
Community based: GPs, dentists, research groups, and pharmaceutical services.
What is the responsibility of Commonwealth government?
Formulating health policies and legalisation, allocating funding, arranging community programs
What is the responsibility of state government?
Execute health policies created by commonwealth government, develop promotion of health campaigns, update health facilities
What is the responsibility of local government?
Developing health campaigns at local/ community level, observing health standards and services within communities
What’s the responsibility of private authorities?
Funding health services such as private medical centres, funding research projects directed at public health.
What is equity of access to health facilities and services?
Access to health services is equal distribution of health services for easy access for all communities and groups
What is health care expenditure versus expenditure on early intervention and prevention
this aims to compare treatment of diseases such as nurses, hospitals, medical equipment with illness with prevention such as awareness campaigns
Whats the impact of emerging technology on health care - benefits of early detection
These new treatments and technology help improve early detection of various diseases and illnesses. They also improve the treatment and prevention, which improves treatment outcomes, and improves quality of life and life expectancy. This will lead to a further increase in the ageing of our population and the rise in chronic diseases.
Whats the impact of emerging technology on health care - access and costs
Treatments come at a cost, not always funded by medicare making it only available to those of high socioeconomic status. Treatments less available in rural and remote communities
How does medicare help achieve better health?
Medicare allows Australians to have access to government health care services for free. - Pharmaceutical benefit scheme
How does private insurance achieve better health for Australians?
It provides range to more hospitals, other health services and specialists, payments made annually or monthly
Why are complementary and alternative healthcare approaches growing?
- growing multiculturalism
- health insurance cover
- holistic health movement
- growth in research based evidence
- increased access to health information
What are the range of complementary and alternative healthcare approaches available ?
- Acupuncture
- Naturopathy
- Chiropractic
- Meditation
- Herbal Medicine
- Hypnotherapy
- Osteopathy
