Australian Healthcare System Research

Australia health care system is very complex which comprises of public and private hospitals together with various insurance companies to fund the cost .In other words Australia is amongst the top developed countries in the world where the health care system is state of the art. Each year around 10.8% of the total Australian National budget is allocated for the health Sector. That is the reason Australia has a high level of life expectancy which is around 81% (World Health Organization, 2008). In 2007 Australia had 642 Public hospitals and 265 Private hospitals. This turned into 2.6 public and 1.2 private hospital beds for every 1000 people (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2008).Not all the patients receive medication and treatment in hospitals but many a great receive at home through nurses etc.Australian Healthcare System Research

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Clients Age above 65 years

The clients in this category are old and need special treatment. To improve the client safety of this group, I have found some factors and then designed my strategy to counter that issue. The first thing to note is that most of the client in this category is living alone. Thus they face many problems like Safety problem, depression issues, medication issue, and respect problem and the patients’ likeness and un-likeness to certain things.