Impacts of Private Healthcare on Public Healthcare in the Treatment of Psychotic Patients
In general, public healthcare system involves the government ran healthcare services and organisations. On the other hand, private healthcare is healthcare systems ran by individual business people, corporations and charitable organisations. About psychiatric services offered to psychotic people; various sources have established that private healthcare influence public health care a lot. Therefore through exploration and application of relevant theories that concern psychotic disorders, the study will explain how private healthcare impacts on public healthcare about the care of psychotic patients (Cheng 1-5).
There will be three theories that will be explored and referred to in this research: labelling theory, heterogeneity and environmental vulnerability factors. Environmental vulnerability theory states that different environmental factors will at least cause some people to develop psychosis. Heterogeneity claims that even if individuals are to become affected by vulnerable factors in the same environment, they cannot be evaluated with the same symptoms because of genetic differences. Labelling theory states that people and authorities formulate certain features to label those affected with psychosis. Therefore, definition and characterization based on the labelling theory will enable researchers to develop an approximately good care plan (Link, Cullen, Struening, Shrout and Dohrenwend 16). The project will, therefore, study individual’s environment and genetic records to ascertain how the two healthcare sectors are responding to them (Early Psychosis Intervention n. pag). It will then be followed with labelling theory to see how individuals with different psychotic features are classified in both private and public hospitals (Franz 48).
After observing all ethical issues, the study will take a mixed approach that involves both qualitative and quantitative techniques (Creswell 28). Quantitative technique will involve addressing issues such the number of psychotic patients in hospital, costs, treatment facilities, the number of treated patients, days spent for treatment among others. Qualitative research will involve collecting data on guardians and hospital staffs about their behaviours, beliefs, attitudes, imagination, phenomenological issues, morality and relationship towards the psychotic care in both private sectors and public sector.
Although some materials may prove hard to be obtained in the ordinary sense, it is hoped that they can be obtained by booking with the University librarian or borrowing on loan from the State Library. However, medical charges of various private and public hospitals can easily be got from their patient enrolments registers. Although the topic, theories or research methodology may not be clear, there will be a need to seek counsels from various professors and course friends to be confident before starting to work on the project. Sometimes it may be hard to realise the most recent theory in the field for use since outdated ones may have been by-passed by events. It will need that one keeps checking on the most recently written academic articles.
There will be random sampling of guardians and hospital staffs from the two healthcare sectors: private and public healthcare. Qualitative data collection will involve individual interview, observation, focus group and self-administered questionnaire. Quantitative data will involve checking issues such as the number and the age of psychotic patients, costs, treatment facilities, the number of treated patients, days spent for treatment among others. There will be correlations between qualitative and quantitative data to provide evidences for the study's hypothesis.
Works Cited
Cheng, Chai T. Measuring the Effects of Removing Subsidies for Private Insurance on Public
Expenditure for Health Care. Melbourne: Melbourne Institute, 2011. Print.
Creswell, John W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. 2nd ed. Thousand Oak: Sage Publication, 2002. Print.
Early Psychosis Intervention. What Causes Psychosis? Early Psychosis.ca, 2014. Web. 2014,
<http://www.earlypsychosis.ca/pages/diagnosed/what-causes-psychosis>
Franz et al. Stigma and Treatment Delay in First-Episode Psychosis: A Grounded Theory
Study. Early Intervention Psychiatry, 2010: 4(1), pp.47-56. Print.
Link, Bruce G., Cullen, Francis T., Struening, E., Shrout, Patrick E., &Dohrenwend, B. P. A Modified Labeling Theory Approach to Mental Disorders: An Empirical Assessment, 2009. Print.
