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Assessment type Critical review
Word limit / length 1,500 Words +/- 10%
Weighting 30%
Due date Sunday, Week 4 15 Sep 2018, , 5 pm Overview From your knowledge of the healthcare system, and your experiences of a workplace you have worked in or are familiar with, work on the strategic issue identified in Assessment 1, and critically analyse the issue. This assessment is built on the first assessment, as it aims to help you ground the theory of strategic health management in a workplace scenario that you are familiar with. In undertaking this assessment, you are developing the ideas and resources that will help inform Assessment 3. Learning objectives This assessment task is aligned to the following learning objectives:
Objective 1 - critically evaluate the concept of strategic management and the use of a strategic management model. Objective 3 - critically analyse and evaluate a range of skills and attributes relevant to being an effective health service manager. Objective 4 - identify strategic issues in health care and formulate and implement strategic management plans in relation to them. Objective 6 - incorporate the principles of justice and equity into planning and management of health services. Assessment details Your assignment should include the following: Describing the strategic issue and its strategic nature - A description of one problematic, or potentially problematic healthcare issue you have observed in a workplace organisation you have worked in or are familiar with. Please continue your work on the issue mentioned in Assessment 1. If necessary, you can seek permission use a different issue than the one from Assessment 1, however it is recommended that you build Assessment 2 on the original issue, to save time and be consistent throughout the assignments. - A description of looking at the issue, strategically or justification for the strategic nature of the issue from an ecological framework (e.g. how the issue is related to organisational, local, state and national levels).
MNG91220: Strategic Health Management
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Justification/critical argument around the strategic issue (its drivers and consequences) - A critical rationale/argument around the key causes/drivers of the issue considering different attributes of a health services manager; why the issue has not been systematically addressed at different levels. Drivers of the strategic issue can be considered from a holistic point of view (e.g. different factors at different levels - issues related to population health, cost-efficiency, effectiveness of the services, such as consumers/staff satisfaction, managerial/organizational issues, etc.). - A critical argument about health care, justice and inequity consequences, if the issue stays unresolved (e.g. impacting on disparities and population health, budget/costefficiency, productivity/performance, etc.).
- Please incorporate different theories in discussing your review of the issue. - Please be advised that this assignment is mainly about theoretical points/argument about the issue, its drivers and consequences. There is no need to provide a remedial framework/plan for resolving the issue (this stage will be addressed in Assessment 3). - Please be advised that you are able to use some parts of Assessment 1, if relevant, however, information needs to be rephrased. Structure of assignment
Although there can be variations in preparing your discussion around assignment one, below outline can be considered in your writing. - A specific title for strategic issue - Strategic issue and its nature (e.g. including the justification/rationale that why the issue is strategic) – up to 3 paragraphs, 600 words - Drivers of strategic issue and its consequences if stays unresolved – up to 4 paragraphs, 900 words - References Using information from workplace: The assignments are designed to provide an opportunity to work with real workplace events to enhance the maximum relevance and possibility of translation of the work to practice. However, if there is no possibility of relating the assignments to the workplace, please describe the work in general terms and/or consider the case hypothetically. If using any real information from your workplace, it needs to be secondary (e.g. online report) not primary (e.g. conducting interview) as this would require ethical application. Use the information provided anonymously, and seek permission from your workplace, before the usage of the information for the purpose of the assignment. Writing a report – Please be advised that you can consider this report as an “evaluative report” (see link below). However, you can also just use the guidance provided above.
For additional assistance on writing a research report, visit: https://learn.scu.edu.au/bbcswebdav/orgs/SERT-SCU/... Submission format This essay should be submitted in Word or PDF through Turnitin in Blackboard.
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High Rates of Chronic Diseases in Rural and Remote Australia – Outline
Thesis Statement: An evaluation of these chronic conditions would highlight their strategic
importance to planning and implementation of the processes for the public health systems and
provide information on their impacts, as well as measures for dealing with them.
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Introduction
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The High Rates of Chronic Diseases in Rural and Remote Australia
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Justification for the Critical Review of High Chronic Disease Rates
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Conclusion
Running head: CHRONIC DISEASES RATES IN RURAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIA
High Rates of Chronic Diseases in Rural and Remote Australia
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CHRONIC DISEASES RATES IN RURAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIA
High Rates of Chronic Diseases in Rural and Remote Australia
Introduction
Communities in rural and remote Australia belong to the parts of the world that prevent a
myriad of challenges to residents regarding access to high quality healthcare services that
contribute to their wellbeing. Aside from the issues surrounding the unequal distribution of the
health workforce of the country and limited resources, Type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases,
and lung cancer are considered the leading risk-factors that play major roles in the high mortality
and morbidity rates in these areas. Therefore, an evaluation of these chronic conditions would
highlight their strategic importance to planning and implementation of the processes for the
public health systems and provide information on their impacts, as well as measures for dealing
with them.
The High Rates of Chronic Diseases in Rural and Remote Australia
While chronic diseases refer to a wide range of severe health conditions with the various
clinical presentations, the focus of this paper would be on Type-2 diabetes, lung cancer, and
cardiovascular diseases due to the existence of their interrelated risk-factors in the communities
in rural and remote parts of Australia. Also, they are representative of the general issues that
should inform health care planning for the residents. According to NHRA (2017), the prevalence
and incident rates for these three chronic diseases are higher in the rural and remote communities
because of their diet and lifestyle than in the major cities and inner regions where residents have
access to the variety of healthcare and wellness options. However, the most crucial aspect of the
high rate of diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and lung cancer in these areas in the
epidemiological information that they provide for a variety of health and social problems that
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CHRONIC DISEASES RATES IN RURAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIA
exist in these areas. For example, the disparity in the access to healthcare facilities for ischemic
heart disease showed that the effective preventative measures that increase the potential for
positive outcomes after treatment for this chronic are unavailable to rural patients. In the case of
diabetes and lung cancer, the potential of the targeted interventions to reduce the risk factors for
the conditions is low because of the socioeconomic and environmental issues that prevent
patients from observing some of the precautions and modifications that would contribute to
positive outcomes.
Justification for the Critical Review of High Chronic Disease Rates
Meanwhile, the essence of the examination of the high prevalence and incidence rates of
chronic diseases in rural and remote parts of Australia is a strategic one because of the cost of its
management. Also, the epidemiological data of these conditions in the areas are reflecting on the
overall socioeconomic status of the country and present unique challenges for policymakers and
other healthcare stakeholders to overcome. AIHW (2015) stated that the mortality rate for female
diabetic patients in rural and remote areas are 2.3 times higher than their counterparts in major
cities and 1.6times higher than males. They further noted that the death rate from diabetes among
Indigenous Australians is 4times higher than the non-indigenous population with the female gaps
as high as 6times the male population. The implications of this statistical data on the negative
consequences of the high prevalence and incidence rates of these chronic diseases on the quality
of life of the people are adequate justifications for the examination of the drivers of these
conditions in this paper. Also, the information that is derived from this analytical rate of the risk
factors for the health disparities in these areas would result in the modification of current
strategic goals and the development of new indicators that can be used to reflect the h...