Q1a. Dental health goal and reasons for making it a health priorityGoal: Increase the number of patients receiving oral healthcare services by 150 percent to receive oral services such as preventive measures, risk assessment, and dental treatment.Reasons for making it a priority
Walls and Murray, (2013) provides the following approaches for making priority in oral care.Increase self-confidence- excellent oral care (flossing and brushing) reduces the plaque that leads to bad breath. Regular assessment and preventive measures help keep the smile in the best condition that leads to self-confidence.Detect and prevent oral cancer- early diagnosis has been proved to be the best defense against oral cancer.Design and maintain a younger appearance- age-related skin losses lead to wrinkles and sagging of mouth skin. It follows bone loss that may lead to loss of teeth.Educating the children to live independent lives and make good oral choices.It assists to reduce time and money resource spending on dental medication in the long run as a result of oral disease consequences that ay follow.Q2a. Dental health objectives to meet goal and three impact measures
1. Services of oral healthcare will promote family participation in oral health.2. Staff to receive professional training on increasing oral health awareness to tap more people for dental health intervention.3. Work closely with catchment areas in the communities to establish the oral healthcare needs of the community.Impact of Objectives
1. More families are expected to seek oral healthcare risk assessment, preventive measures and dental treatment once they receive the information.2. Professionally trained healthcare staff will provide elaborate intervention, and more people will be knowledgeable of benefits of oral healthcare.3. There will be enhanced collaboration with communities that will increase their participation in oral healthcare risk assessment, dental care and prevention.Q3a. Outcome Measures and Provide Four for the Dental Health GoalThe goals will lead to increased self-confidence among the community seeking oral care; they will achieve greater control of dental diseases such as cancer, reduced time and financial expenditure on healthcare services and overall maintenance of self-appearance and keep a young body look (Birkmann, 2006). The increased number of patient oral care services in the community would also lead to improved economic outcomes of the community as most of the finances that could be channeled to healthcare are used to develop the community economically. Likewise, the great control of the oral diseases such as oral cancer would also assist the customers to maintain better oral health in general. Oral health has also been associated with other chronic diseases. Therefore, it is significant to maintain oral health. Lastly, the customers will gain self-confidence and increase self-image. These factors are significant for self-actualization and becoming part of the community (Mathew, Spencer & Chalmers, 2011).Q4a. Six Ideas to Address Rising Health Care Costs (Referenced) In Australia1. Promotion of privately negotiated rates of healthcare payments within the Australian spending targets2. The healthcare sponsors should accelerate the use of alternative face-to-face service payment rather than paying for each service fee. This requires the clients to pay for a bundle of services.3. The Australian healthcare system should adopt healthcare technology such as telehealth to reduce the healthcare costs.4. Australian healthcare system to employ competitive bidding in healthcare commodities.5. Enhance administrative practices to reduce add-ons on the healthcare cost services.6. Require full price transparency in the Australian healthcare system.
(Mathers, Penm & Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1999)
Q5a. Name the postcode of home address and LGA.Define extrapolationApply the known rate of diabetes for Aboriginal people to a five-year age group of your choice, in your home postcode Stratified analysis on the incidence of diabetes in the home area from the community-based longitudinal study provides that there are 46 incidences of diabetes cases in a total population of 2, 800. The modifications of BMI provides that there are diabetes incidences at a rate of 20.3/1000 persons every year (Momoh, 2012). The study from the community healthcare shows that aboriginal people are the highest in the community and the incidence of diabetes in lowest BMI category.Q6a. Three essential components to a needs analysis with two examples of each for women’s health servicesHealthcare needs assessment refers to the process that enables the identification of the main cause of ill health and risk factors and enables the identification of the actions needed to address the health problems. The components of healthcare needs analysis mention population profiling that will assist in defining and describing the community and its health need (Ingham, Bennetts & Hynes, 2004). Secondly, needs assessment requires describing the community based on the local views, nursing information and measures of health and the inequalities of health. Lastly, health case assessment analysis requires that the information is used on making priority decisions, taking action and planning what follows that analysis. Therefore, the main components of healthcare needs analysis are the data collection, verification of the model through statistical measures and determination of the essential healthcare needs based on the priorities (Williams, 2012 & Skinner & University of Waterloo, 2013). Women services may include inspections and monitoring and street sweeping.Q7a. Importance of Involving Consumers in Health Planning
Patient's entering hospitals are ill and injured. They endure risky and painful treatments, tests and surgeries. The emotions fear and hostilities experienced by the patients and the families requires them to be included in the plan to be aware of what is happening in the treatment plan (Health Law Institute & Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2014). Likewise, it is significant to incorporate patients so that they are constantly reassured, comforted and calmed down. It is important to offer educational advisers to the patients and their caregivers. When they know the outcomes expectations, it provides them with the edge of coping better with the treatment offered. Therefore, the healthcare workers have a responsibility to explain to the patients what is happening and the actions they will offer to assist them (Kutscher, 2012). This allows them to participate actively in healthcare and gains strength and trust with the healthcare providers.Q8a. Limitations the Australian Health Care System
- Weak primary health care system2. Poor use of funds for the heath care system3. Poor utilization of the health facilities and equipment among the healthcare system stakeholders4. Inadequate number of healthcare providers and healthcare facilities (Duckett, 2008 and McGrath, Henderson & Phillips, 2009).
Suggested Solutions to overcome the problems
Centralization of the Australian governance of the healthcare system at the state of authority levelsEnsure stronger measures of accountability on financial and other monetary measures.Adopt the technology like telehealth to reduce the number of hospital stays and admissions that congest the few health facilities and equipment.Collaborate with international and national bodies to train more healthcare professionals (World health organization, 2011)Q9b. Corporate rationalists in the Australian health care system and their power base
Shweitzer, (2009) highlights the following corporate rationalists in the Australian health care systemHealth Insurance Commission- Is an agency of the federal government in the department of health an ageing. The commission is powerful since it is mandated to administer Medicare, and running of the pharmaceutical benefit scheme that heavily provides subsidy to the price of drug prescription for the Medicare practitioners.Ministry of health and ageing- the ministry is headed by a minister that provides a determination of annual premiums that allows it to control the healthcare premium costs (Duckett, 2007). The minister draws the powers from the huge obligations of the ministry.
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