NURS20 Nursing

Discuss about the Nursing, Social and political factors can have detrimental effects on health care delivery. With respect to economic factors, poverty can be reason for a person’s death even for curable disease.

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· Hostility · Stress · Depression · Pessimism	· Seclusion · Irregular eating · Substance abuse · Suicidal tendencies	· Nervous system · Digestive system · Immune system

Housing is one of the social issues that can affect the health and illness of a person. People living in poor conditions can have a significant risk of developing illness. These conditions are toxins, mold, and pests. Among socio cultural issues, religious and spiritual values can also be unfavourable to health. Due to their religious and spiritual preferences, people might not want to avail medical treatment (Bonevski et al., 2014).

Economic, social and political factors can have detrimental effects on health care delivery. With respect to economic factors, poverty can be reason for a person’s death even for curable disease. Due to financial constraints a person cannot afford the insurance or health care services. Additionally, an example of social factor is that the social inequities across various demographic groups. Structural and societal resources inequities can be the difference between life and death (Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014).

Strengths	Weakness
· Strong general practice infrastructure · Australia’s healthcare system is one of the best in the world specially in case of childcare vaccination and immunization	· GP’s lack of access to the computer and laptop specially in Victorian ·  Inequity among various social groups.

Issues on the current health policy agenda in Australia are described below:

1. Rapid advancement in healthcare technologies have increased the financial burden on Australian government.
2. Another issue for the Australian health policy is that inequality of health and equity issues across various demographic groups. For instance, life expectancy of indigenous Australian is much lower than the non-indigenous Australian.  

Four principles of primary healthcare in Australia are mentioned below:

1. Maximum participation, full community control and genuine engagement of local indigenous community.
2. Delivery, management and detection of essential healthcare programs like chronic disease prevention and child and maternal health.
3. Working with other health related service providers in collaborative manner.
4. Engaging local community members for multidisciplinary approach (“Department of Health | Principles for success for primary health care services”, 2018).

Characteristics	Selective PHC	Comprehensive PHC
Main Aim	Selective primary healthcare framework’s main objective is provide the healthcare benefits selectively instead of implementing it globally.	Comprehensive primary healthcare framework is a global economic initiative which will profits all countries specially amongst poor countries

Wellness can be defined as absence of disease and illness can be defined as presence of disease. Illness model of care is where medical practitioner just provides medical necessities of the patient according to the disease and do not consult or advice about how to prevent those diseases. Wellness model is where medical practitioner will not only provides the medical necessities but will also consult about the effect of good diet, sleep and stress free life. They will provide information about how to prevent a disease instead of just cure it (Cabassa et al., 2018).

In Australia, since colonisation, nursing practice has been performed in contemporary manner which is predominantly western. Recently, the need of non-western approach have come to fore due to various programs relating aboriginal people. Medical professionals having better knowledge in aboriginal culture is needed to provide holistic care to aboriginal peoples. Nurses are in the forefront of any medical examination, so non-western approaches in nursing practice has become vital (Watts et al., 2017).

References

Bonevski, B., Randell, M., Paul, C., Chapman, K., Twyman, L., Bryant, J., … & Hughes, C. (2014). Reaching the hard-to-reach: a systematic review of strategies for improving health and medical research with socially disadvantaged groups. BMC medical research methodology, 14(1), 42.

Braveman, P., & Gottlieb, L. (2014). The social determinants of health: it’s time to consider the causes of the causes. Public health reports, 129(1_suppl2), 19-31.

Cabassa, L. J., Manrique, Y., Meyreles, Q., Camacho, D., Capitelli, L., Younge, R., … & Lewis-Fernández, R. (2018). Bridges to Better Health and Wellness: An Adapted Health Care Manager Intervention for Hispanics with Serious Mental Illness. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 45(1), 163-173.

Department of Health | Principles for success for primary health care services. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/health-oatsih-pubs-linkphc~health-oatsih-pubs-linkphc-local~principles

Watts, L. L., Todd, E. M., Mulhearn, T. J., Medeiros, K. E., Mumford, M. D., & Connelly, S. (2017). Qualitative evaluation methods in ethics education: A systematic review and analysis of best practices. Accountability in research, 24(4), 225-242.