Medicare
What does SAFE stand for?
Sustainability, access, funding and equity
What does reorient health services mean?
Focus moves from diagnosing, treating, curing illness to preventing it occurring in the first place.
Health professionals are used to educate people of preventative strategies to promote health and wellbeing.
Identify 3 disadvantages of Private health insurance
- Premiums are costly
- Sometimes have a "gap" payment
- Qualifying periods or waiting periods apply for certain things
What is the purpose of the PBS?
The purpose of the PBS is to provide essential medicines to people who need them (at a subsidised cost), regardless of their ability to pay.
1)Be an Aus citizen (or hold a permanent visa or protected special category visa)
2) Live in AUs where the NDIS is available
What are the 5 action areas of the ottawa charter for health promotion?
Build healthy public policy
Create supportive environments
Strengthen community action
Develop personal skills
Reorient health services
Identify the amount of money a single and a family would need to be earning in order to be charged the Medicare Levy Surcharge.
$90,000 singles $180,000 families
How many brands of prescription medications are on the PBS list?
Approx 5,000
1) You have a condition or impairment that is likely to be permanent
2) your impairment substantially reduces your ability to participate in activities unless you have assistance (from others/ from technology/ or still cant without assistance from either of these)
3) Your impairment affects your capacity for social and economic participation
4) you are likely to require support under NDIS for a lifetime
Three strategies for health promotion are...
Advocate, enable and mediate
What are 3 disadvantages of medicare
no choice of Doctor for in-hospital treatment
waiting lists for many treatments
does not cover alternative therapies
often does not cover the full amount of visiting a Doctor.
Identify 5 advantages of Private Health Insurance
enables access to private hospital care/ choice of doctor in public or private hospital/ shorter waiting periods for some surgery/ some extras may be covered depending on level of cover (dentistry, physio etc)/ helps to keep the cost of running medicare low/ high income earners avoid paying the medicare levy surcharge/ government rebate for eligible policy holders/ lifetime healthcover incentive/ reduces burden on Australia's Health care system
Available medications are reviewed how many times a year?
3 times a year.
The first step once accepted into the NDIS is to create an individualised plan. Through this individualised plan, the NDIS assists participants to do 4 main things. Identify 2 examples of these 4 things.
1) Access mainstream services and supports
2) Access community services and supports
3) Maintain informal support arrangements
4) Receive reasonable and necessary funded supports
Welfare payments are an example of which principle of the social model?
Reduce social inequities