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Health Care Dynamics in Australia

QUESTION:

Discuss the major factors that determine health status and analyse the extent to which the focus of the current health care system addresses these factors.

Australia’s approach towards health is gradually moving away from the traditional biomedical model promoted by the medical profession to the adoption of new perspectives. Although the biomedical model of care remains dominant, new aspects towards health care such as the “New Health Movement” and “Public Policy” are becoming widely accepted. These directives encompass the societal determinants of health such as socio-economic status and environmental factors that contribute to inequalities throughout an individual’s lifespan. Governments and health organizations have therefore identified with the necessity for a collaborative inter-sectoral approach from all public domains to gain effective and essential improvements in health care nationally.

The ideology of medicine has had a major influence on...

Posted by: Angelia Holliday

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