What are health help, safety, and emergency?
The assistance given to one for their physical or mental wellbeing by an individual or any partner, association is known as health help. The assistance helps to improve, promote or restore the original wellbeing of an individual.
Safety refers to the welfare of an individual. It means the state of being preserved from any kind of risk or danger. In this case, safety means the security of one’s health that might be the physical state or mental wellbeing.
Emergency refers to a crisis or an unexpected situation that immediately requires a precaution or a treatment to avoid further damage. Health help provides safety to an individual during the time of emergencies. It helps an individual to recover their state and come back to fitness.
Why do we require health help and safety?
Safety is something that needs to be guaranteed wherever and whenever we go because you cannot predict an emergency. The major reasons to have a safety and essentials of health help are as follows:
promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing the disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans
- Achieve health equity
- To avoid premature or immediate death
- To stay far from the uncertainties and unnecessary disabilities for lifelong
- To maintain sound health condition
- To reduce insecurities
- To circumvent the traumatic situations and risks
Health help in Australia
There is a total number of 695 hospitals in Australia with around 62000 of hospital beds. In 2016-2017, the total expenditure made was $67 billion in the sector of public hospital service excluding the depreciated values, wages, allowance, and salaries. The total number of nurses was 151000 out of 365000 staff who were employed in the public hospital service in the given year as stated by the hospital resource 2016-2017, an Australian hospital statistics. Public hospitals offer free health services in Australia with the availability of land ambulance and air ambulance in most of the states.
The working mechanism of healthcare in Australia
Public hospitals
In case of emergencies, public health hospitals are the first ones to go as they provide emergency services. The cost is comparatively low with adequate access to the medicare or funded by the tax.
As a public patient, you have to wait for a longer time with no choice among the doctors as you will be sacred by the doctor on call according to your health issue or medical condition with a shared room until you recover. But the service would not be neglected but you will be privileged with a budgetary expense.
Private hospitals
The private hospitals are licensed and the regulations are made by the government. The major advantage of visiting a private hospital is that you can make a choice among the doctors available and plan surgery or take an appointment in favor of your time. You can have a private room if necessary. You can also go as a private patient in public hospitals by choosing your doctor where the normal and private cost would differ.
Health care system
Medicare
The scheme provided by the Australian government to reach the status of public health care by bearing the cost with the taxes paid by the particular individual is known as medicare. The cost related to the treatment you receive as a public patient in a public hospital is conveyed by the government. If you are a private patient, 75% of the total fee is bear by the government. The specialist fee or the tests and examinations are compensated by them. This reduces the economic burden on you during the time of emergencies and you will also be benefited with the reduced fee on the prescriptive medications in case you are on a government list called Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Private Health Insurance
The four major sectors that are covered by private health insurance are as follows:
- Hospital treatment: The admitted cost that is payable to the hospital for your stay until the recovery is conveyed by them.
- General Treatment: The cost related to your general visit to a doctor, which might include a dentist, opticians, physiotherapists or so on will also be contributed by the insurance agent.
- Ambulance: The emergency will get coverage and even the non-emergency transport would be paid partially with the subscription provided during treatment.
As a whole, a visit to the website of the visitor’s guide for the Australian health system can guide you better with the appropriate location as well as a precaution in various areas.