Characteristics Of The Australian Healthcare System

P.4). Responsibilities like funding, delivery & regulation is shared by the national & state government of Australia makes the Australian Health Care system universally accessible within the people (AIHW, 2000). Public hospitals & community care funding is joined effort of common wealth (i.e. federal government), states & territories where common wealth use its taxation revenue to fund most of hospital medical service & health research (Common wealth Department of Health & age care, 2000). Since 1990’s National & State health Minister worked with many stakeholders to develop a certain National framework to assessing the Australian health system (NHPC, 2000).

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To achieve these goals, the functions to be executed include the generation of more resources, delivery of health services, and good leadership/management. This paper explores the Australian health care system, particularly its challenges, strengths, weaknesses, and the proposed reforms. The Australian Health Care System The Australian health care system comprises both the public and the private health sub-sectors. The health care system concerns itself with the financing, formulation, implementation, evaluation, and reforming of health services. The main sources of f... ... middle of paper ... ...For Public Health?

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The Organisation & Focus of the Health System in NZ, UK& US Health care systems around the world are diverse in the organisation and focus of their health systems. In this essay, the organisation and focus of New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States will be compared. Considered will be their different levels of care, the way patients move through these levels and the successfulness of each system at being a quality health care system for their population. Health systems consist of three main health care levels; primary, secondary and tertiary. Each corresponds to levels of care for patients.

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The access to healthcare is comprehensive since French national health insurance grants direct access to providers. Roughly two-thirds of practicing health professionals are independent self-employed fee-for-service providers (Chevreul et al. 112). In addition the fee-for-service providers, healthcare is delivered through private, private-for-profit-hospitals, private-non-profit-hospitals, public hospitals and acute care hospitals that are financed through a Disease Related Group (DRG) payment system.