7311MED-Social Determinants Of Health

Political systems and ideologies

There are different kinds of political systems including democratic, dictatorship, republic, monarchy, and communism. Each of them promotes various approaches to public health, for instance, democracy promotes approaches to health care through the establishment of better health covers for every member of the society (Busoi, 2010). A good example is the Medicare scheme in Australia (Currie, Chiarella, & Bickley, 2017). However, dictatorship kind of ideology destroys the approaches to public health as no one is allowed to conduct research outside the set limits by the government. In addition, the ruling party does not allow any privatization of the healthcare making it extremely difficult to boost the delivery of better care services to the community. A good example is of the recently changed North Korea governance (Tudor & Pearson, 2015). Such a country faced a nightmare in public health care back in the 1990s due to poor economic conditions, increased natural disasters, and lack of enough food and energy. In summary, the promotion of approaches to public health increase with the increase in the freedom of the citizen to acquire care services.

Impacts on public health policy and practice

As indicated earlier on, the better the governance, the better the approaches to public health. However, the involvement of a political system and ideology in the health sector impacts it in several ways including the following. To start with, the public benefits for health are high as they are offered to everyone as well as there being strong labor associations making the working conditions favorable as well. Thirdly, there are lower reported cases of income and socioeconomic inequalities and, finally, better policies for the workers such as the full-time employment and gender equality as well (Borell, Espelt, & Rodriguez-Sanz, 2018).

References

Borell, C., Espelt, A., & Rodriguez-Sanz, M. (2018). Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Retrieved 2018, from NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652986/

Busoi, C. S. (2010). HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE INFLUENCE OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE INFLUENCE OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE INFLUENCE OF. HEALTH SYSTEM, HEALTH POLICY , 4-6.

Currie, J., Chiarella, M., & Bickley, T. (2017). Privately practising nurse practitioners’ provision of care subsidised through the Medicare Benefits Schedule and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in Australia: results from a national survey. Australian Health Review.

Tudor, D., & Pearson, J. (2015). North Korea confidential: private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors. Tuttle Publishing.