faced by the modern health professionals in understanding the complexities of providing culturally competent Aboriginal health, physiotherapy and rehabilitation care within the Australian primary health care system. Non-Indigenous health care professionals cannot truly understand the true complexity of the past impacts of colonialism, the political process and the community’s prejudice effects on the Indigenous health status. This report intends to inspire health care professionals to understand the development of cultural competency standards by health industry bodies and actively engage in cross-cultural interactions to develop a higher level of skills in their community and practice. This report provides…
limited publication had contributed widely to the obscured view of dental health in Iraq. The counting displacement issue within the country has played an important part in the difficulties of reporting the Iraqi’s dental health. Most of the available publication of child dental health limited to the 12 year-olds children in Bagdad province, while other age categories have reported in few occasion 41-43. All of which created the uncompleted picture of Iraq child dental health. There is only one…
For decades, a solution has been searched for to solve the problems of health care in the United States. The most major issue being the constant imbalance of cost, access, and quality. Many countries around the world have been utilizing the system of socialized health care for years, including Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These three international health systems will be analyzed in terms of organization, finances, outcomes in relation to cost, access, and quality, as well as the…
Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society (Heiman, Smith, McKool, Mitchell & Roth Bayer, 2016). It provides the context in and framework in which health care and public health systems operate. Most of the design and operation of the nation’s health care system is intertwined with the national economic and political environment (Williams & Torrens, 2008). An explicit health policy can achieve…
community. On prior research I found it interesting to find that they care for more than 250,000 patients in primarily Adelaide’s western suburbs. I knew before my placement that this would include many different demographic factors such as, age, religion, sex, and culture. This also included patients with mental health problems, this skills and communication having to be adapted to appropriately care for this demographic. When arriving at the hospital, I found to my surprise that they have a…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is part of the executive branch and presides over much of the health care within the country by implementing health policy. Through policy, some of the most significant advances in the 20th century have occurred. The health of the population has been greatly improved by the government’s management of immunizations, motor-vehicle safety, workplace safety, safe and healthy food handling, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, control…
system can be defined as a series of interactions between an individual and a professional care-giver under circumstances involving health (Gilles, 2003). The healthcare system is then often divided into three sectors; primary, secondary, and tertiary care (Bodenheimer and Grumbach, 2009). Primary healthcare involves the treatment and prevention of common health problems in a community based setting. Secondary care focuses on the healthcare problems requiring more specialized treatment, such as…
When considering global health, we cannot overlook the issue of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). While mainly effecting populations in poverty, the diseases infect over a billion people globally in around 150 tropical and subtropical countries (WHO). As a result of prevalent health issues in more developed nations, NTDs are often overlooked and downgraded in the overall health importance scale. Neglected tropical diseases are often neglected due to their lack of relevance and breadth of…
Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) (Canadian Nurses Association, 2010). Most of these nurses were the primary health care providers for the majority of the 23,062 inmates incarcerated in one of the 53 federal penitentiaries in Canada, representing 0.081 percent of the Canadian population (Reitano, 2016). The most prevalent health issue in Canadian federal prisons is drug and alcohol abuse. Reitano (2016) reported that almost 70 percent of federal inmates are diagnosed with a substance abuse…
Primary Healthcare and Global Health is an interesting subject. During the lecture, I found that this subject helps expand my understanding of the principle of Primary Health Care (PHC) as well as its implementation in global health settings. I also obtained in-depth learning through a focused group work and discussion. In a small group, we discussed and shared knowledge as well as experience on a chosen topic. We explored a topic about the importance of community health workers (CHWs) as a…