Abstract
Despite the improvement of the living standards and the establishment of health care systems in the twentieth century, many investigations have highlighted continuous inequalities in industrialized regions. In most cases, some people from certain geographical regions are discriminated against while accessing health care services. The discrimination also takes the social class route, where people from high social classes can access better health care services than people from low classes do. Therefore, it is necessary to come up with health care systems that can help to bridge this gap. The creation of Southern Region Health System has shown concern to diminish geographical and health inequalities, where the equity issues have become a priority in the recent years. Therefore, it is important if the Southern Region Health System into put account. The system has succeeded in meeting patients’ needs and minimizing financial costs. It uses procedures that uphold patients’ values. In other words, the competition encountered in this system ensures that good health care services are provided to satisfy the needs of patients and other participants.
“Where we are now” for SRHS
Factors Influencing SRHS
The state and entire southern region recognize the Southern Region Health System (SRHS) due to its quality patient care. Some factors such as lifestyle, individuals’ health, social and environmental factors influence the SRHS in the provision of medical care. Some factors indicate a great difference in the prevalence of the Southern region compared with the state. The SRHS shows positive outcomes in the health standards of individuals (Scheneider et al., 2006). It provides services that create chances to monitor flexible risk factors and chronic conditions that establish health plans and involvements such as vaccinations. Considering the mortality factor, native individuals from South West indicate a low-life expectancy than non-aboriginal individuals. SRHS has a duty to handle alcohol and tobacco cases to increase the life expectancy of individuals. SRHS has an extraordinary percentage of semi and non-urgent turnouts, which shows a need for improved health services in the region. The SRHS should put proper factors into account to plan for the future of individual services. Hospitalizations are factors that indicate severe conditions in the southern region hence assist in pointing crucial care resources to prevent them from occurring. They occur due to inpatient treatment, which could be avoided through managing diseases at early stages. The SRHS has managed hospitalizations thus achieving low numbers of individuals being hospitalized.
The Competitive Positioning for SRHS
The competitive position of SRHS involves elements of price, convenience, unique services, innovation, and technology. The aim of competition in health care is to provide a method that ensures low costs are incurred in the health care. The competitive level for SRHS removes inefficiencies that would incur high costs, which could be transferred to individuals. SRHS upholds healthy competition that ensures a suitable market and proper treatment for specific diseases. Nevertheless, competition remains an important activity in the health care programs that involve benefactors, owners, payers, and patients. Technologies have ensured new medical discoveries and given opportunities for employing highly qualified staff in SRHS. Due to the quality of care provided to individuals, health professionals and patients get satisfaction in the services that are offered.
“Where we should be going” for SRHS
SRHS Mission and Business Balance
The Southern Region Health System mission and business operation balance. It is ‘an employer of choice’ and has proceeded to be a significant provider of health services in the Southern region (Rhodes, 1996). The organization has achieved its strategies by offering unique and comprehensive health care services. It includes a medical center that features acute care, offers surgeries, has a women sector and provides mental health services (Rhodes, 1996). The SRHS has attained an effective agreement that describes affiliation in health systems to ensure a standard health care for individuals in the southern region. Formalizing management contracts is key to SRHS since it will undergo great changes regarding operations transformation.
SRHS Resource Allocation
SRHS resource allocation demands an in-depth and full valuation of all opportunity costs of any distributional resolution to be taken. The system allocates its resources with the aim of maximizing health status and welfare of individuals. It does not accept universal resource allocation but adopts methods that are applied by other health institutions depending on the availability and quality of data. Budget allocations for SRHS create emphasis on medical, administrative and research operations. It takes into account disease afflictions, population sizes, and gender (Scheneider et al., 2006). Final distributions are influenced by the choices and sensitivity of values. Priorities of SRHS resource allocation are to ensure universal access to a regular set of health services, which are of high quality and utilize procedures for crucial health care. Proper resource allocation enhances health, growth, and development of all individuals hence, decreasing differences between social groups. SRHS observes simplicity in allocating resources due to the statistics quality. It observes variety models of resource allocation to implement various policies that meet individual choices at low costs.
Conclusion
The SRHS faces many challenges. Some factors may affect the provision of health care negatively. The increased competition of health care influences these procedures. Technology, which varies with time is a challenge for SRHS to obtain modern methods of technology in its operations. In this study, a research model has been introduced; suggestions to investigate the difficult problems of competition in health care organizations. The methods conduct realistic research that has a significant influence on policy makers. SRHS current regulatory efforts focus on health care system costs without altering the quality of care. SRHS uses methods of resource allocation that have a significant impact on patient satisfaction while enhancing the quality of services at low costs in a competitive environment. It should pay attention to some proposals for proper allocation of resources. For instance, more responsiveness should be exercised to resource allocation strategies. It should influence key participants: patients, payers, and administrators, to ensure that they understand the importance of equitable distribution of health care resources (World Health Organization, 2000).
The Southern Region Health System should adopt a realistic step of change for a fair redistribution of health care resources, which will ensure that proper planning is conducted redundant interruption to services is avoided. Relevant procedures must be upheld to ensure relative staff redistribution, which may comprise negotiations with trade organizations and initiatives such as: issuing allowances, giving incentives and offering training opportunities for less advantaged workers in rural areas. The issue of resource allocation is necessary; thus, SRHS must ensure careful management for it to succeed.
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