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Australia's next health system : Comments

By Julia Gillard, published 1/9/2006

Meet next century's health system - the reforms that are needed.

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Fair-go Australia. Convey enabled focus to the accord of the Millennium Development Goals through Health.

Affirm the World Health Organisation’s call for a "global emergency" on Mental Health.

Align Australia’s Mental Health goals through the accords of the World Health Organisation.

Director, Dr Benedetto Saraceno, has now officially declared a "global emergency" in human rights on the mental health system worldwide.

Dr Benedetto Saraceno is the WHO Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ms Julia Gillard, this is extremely important.

To consider just one reason why, please see problematic areas in Australia’s legislation. The link-below highlights the burden for just one consumer, here in Cape York, where all requests for assistant have not been recurrent, progressive; but malevolent.

http://www.miacat.com/Media_Pan_One/WorldSystemsOfHealing/Health_Rights/The_Problem.html

Dr Benedetto Saraceno, Director for the World Health Organisation (WHO), has asked the United Nations to declare a "global emergency" on Mental Health, during UN meetings on the 23 August 2006, last week.

"I insist on the word global", said Mr Dr Benedetto Saraceno, "as people believe that these kinds of violations always occur everywhere else."

Dr Benedetto Saraceno said, "A human rights violation is not just a matter of denied access to treatment but also and often consists in treatment itself which is inhuman or simply of very bad quality".

I declare Ms Gillard, Australia has a “national emergency” in Human Right examples including;

1) Undue influence of the pharmaceutical industry: Australia unlike NZ, Canada and some parts of Europe has an increasingly narrow "medical model" of mental health. This is squeezing out non-drug socially engaging alternatives. While drug companies continue to dominate the future of the mental health field, the humane non drug options are seldom made available.

2) The rise of involuntary and "direct" electroshock in Australia is an outrage.

WHO demands an immediate ban on forced electroshock.

The power of the "medical model" is growing, but drugs are expensive and electricity cheap and, most often given against the expressed wishes of the subject.

I believe this is “shameful” in a country as knowledgeable and economically advanced as Australia.

www.miacat.com
Posted by miacat, Sunday, 3 September 2006 8:15:16 PM
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MIACAT

I purchased some text books used in our medical degrees from a Uni book store. I opened the first page and found this:

"The organism......" and that was it... not the 'person' but 'organism'.... perhaps in the absence of God in the medical understanding of humans, we are left with ONLY the 'medical model' ?

ALCHEMIST... and your 'source'(s) for all that interesting information is ?

Mental health has not been 'born again' it was aborted by the Left and the foetus discarded into 'half way houses' and into the families of those ill-equipped to cope.

That was the classic 'Political Opportunism' and I watched it all.
"rant against instututions and how unjust and dehumanizing they are.. we can score BIG political points by doing so" yesssss.. and all this proved is we reap what we sow.
Posted by BOAZ_David, Monday, 4 September 2006 6:02:53 AM
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We talk about the crisis in healthcare without ever really teasing out the causes of the crisis.

I regard the underlying cause as the demand for healthcare.

An analysis will show that the demand for healthcare is strongly influenced by:

the impositions of nature;
the decision to smoke and drink or both;
other lifestyle choices;
old age.

Are we as a society going to fund a healthcare system equally for all these causes.

In effect how are we going to manage demand for the healthcare system.

A fully privatised system will just depend (ignoring charity) on the ability to pay.

A publically funded system will have to have some form of rationing (currently the waiting list).
Posted by 58, Monday, 4 September 2006 10:46:12 AM
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Bd, thought that may give some real sense to the veracity of the “honourable persons” (horrible politicians), pumping their righteousness, whilst denying the causes of ill health. Those statistics where supposedly derived from parliament houses statistics office. It may not be 100% accurate, but considering the veracity of what they say relating to health and all portfolios and the number of times you see them with their snouts in someone else's trough, bet its not far from wrong.

I received it via email with some other stuff, from a pretty reliable religious source. They were trying to support the moral veracity shown by religious politicians by saying, see more than 350 are followers of god and look at all the good work they are doing. They Just forgot to delete the other statistics that came with it, typical monotheist, can't see the truth through their veil of deceit.

Nothing new's been brought up on this thread, except Julia's just like the rest, incompetent and lacking any ability or intention of really addressing the health problems. The first thing needing to be done, is address the growing mental illness raging through society. It seems their pushing it under the carpet, or should I say being drugged under the carpet.

Could this mental breakdown have something to do with the make up of our diet and foods, causing chemical changes and imbalances within the brain. We may never know, with mentally ill politics running the country. We may be doomed to social insanity for awhile, as the chemical imbalance within the brain, combines with the enslaving evolutionary gene deficiencies of the religious. The mind boggles, well at least a good “Dr who” show.
Posted by The alchemist, Monday, 4 September 2006 10:50:38 AM
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58 I think your analysis of factors causing increase in demand for healthcare ignores the fact that our expectations of the healthcare system are far greater than they were 50 years ago,

The improvements in medicine and health care have lowered the mortality rates for child birth, heart attacks, TB, pneumonia, serious car accidents etc. We are definitely more aware of the risks associated with smoking, poor diet, not enough exercise and pollutants in our environment. Overall I think Australians are living healthy productive active lives for longer, so that people can continue to work in their 50s and 60s because they are not crippled by occupational injury and diseases like arthritis are better managed than they were in the past. Only half of the projected increase in health care costs is expected to come from provision of aged care.

The fact that posters are discussing the wisdom of closing the large mental health asylums that used to incarcerate inmates for years, is only possible because there are many powerful and effective psychotropic drugs that can be used to manage psychiatric conditions allowing sufferers to control their condition and return to the community. Miacat expects that the health authorities support these people more adequately than they do currently.

I cant see the relevance of discussions religion, political dirt files and return to patriarchal society to a debate on health care expectations in 2044
Posted by billie, Monday, 4 September 2006 11:46:06 AM
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Dear Julia,

How disappointing! The lack of any sort of serious thought or analysis in your piece is most concerning. Stripped of the criticisms of the Howard government's efforts (and your comments here are hardly insightful) there are but two central thoughts: partnerships with the private sector and a single funder. What might these partnerships entail? You seem to have no idea. Single funder? Must be examined properly... benefits must outweigh costs...

Oh dear! Why bother to write this blah? It is an insult to all of those who work in the health service and who care about the future of our health service.

Oh and to cap it off, not a word about Aboriginal health.

Citizens' juries on health in WA, with ordinary, randomly selected citizens, have made a much better fist of analysing the health service than this. They have also wanted to give priority to the health of Aboriginal people.

How about just listening to the informed voice of the public Julia? They have a much better idea of how to improve our health service.

Gavin Mooney
Posted by guy, Monday, 4 September 2006 12:20:07 PM
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