HSBH1009 Lecture 1: HSBH1009-Health-Care-Resources-and-Systems-NOTES
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Challenges for health care resources and systems in australia: The voluntary health insurance arrangements introduced in 1953 by a conservative government were based, in part, on similar systems that had become the dominant method of paying for health care in the us. The canadian model of universal, taxation-funded health insurance formed the core of the medibank scheme that commenced in 1975, and after its early demise in the late. Sociological: the distinction between health needs and wants, the inverse care law asserts: the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for the population served. Epidemiological: the study of the distribution of disease, morbidity and disability. The ultimate objective of providing health services should be the maintenance and improvement of the health status of the population (palmer and short, 2010) Increased incidence of hiv-aids among young heterosexual women and men.
