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Summary
1. providing training to some groups of people (volunteers) about the delivery system to the house, for example, packing of the raw food and cooked food, and delivering food in safe covid manner.
2. Collecting monetary donations and food donations (food bank)
3. Collaborating with other local and governmental organizations
4. Providing education to family about food benefits programs, temporary relief of food, a school offering food programs
5. Involving family members and well as children in decision making.

1. Goals of strategy
a. To help families and children in need within 2 weeks.
b. To address food insecurity among children in the community within 2 weeks.
2. Would your proposed interventions work?
Yes, if provided enough resources to achieve the goal.
3. who else needs to engage?
Volunteers, families, local and government organizations
4. Evaluation
a.Creating web pages on social media allowing affected families and children to provide reviews about the program.
b. Follow up phone calls to the affected families of children.
c. Distributing pamphlets to every house
5. Resources
Manpower, food donations, monetary aids.

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Summary:

During the lockdown, we are providing nutritious meals to families in need through a community-centered collaboration approach.

What are the goals of your strategy?

To provide families in need with daily nutritious meals and nutrition education by empowering the community through education and engagement strategies.

Would your proposed intervention from last week work? why or why not? Provide evidence to support this.

Why?
- Longevity and sustainability in empowering the community to play an active role in the achievement of the goal.
- Addresses the community as a whole, with no discrimination
- Across Australia, approximately nearly 6 million people volunteer through an organisation annually.
- If we covid test people before they volunteer, we can continue our operation
- Many school kids use the schools lunch programs for food and during the lockdown they arent able to access that program

Why not?
- Volunteering rates dropped by 11.8% due to lockdown restrictions
- Social distancing and limitations to access to technology
- Positive Covid-19 cases, shut down of the operation

Who else do you need to engage with for your strategy to work?
- nutritionists
- dietitian
- chefs
- volunteers
- government
- facilities
- vehicles

How would you evaluate your strategy?
- community review
- community engagement by survey

What resources do you need to make your intervention sustainable?
- groceries
- volunteers
- designated drivers
- Covid-19 tesing kits

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Summary:

Make care packages for each child, and deliver them throughout the neighbourhood via, car, van etc. Care packages includes activities to keep them active and connected throughout the week, as well as easy meals to prepare as well as healthy snacks. We also thought of a "pick up" table where the children's families can come and pick up foods, snacks, etc that will be available in the area.

What are the goals of your strategy?

SMART goal

To improve/maintain nutritional intake throughout the two week lockdown

Measurable through food diary

Would your proposed intervention from last week work? why or why not? Provide evidence to support this

It is highly likely to be successful if we have the people and resources to do so

Who else do you need to engage with for your strategy to work?

School

Local council

Community - donations

Organisations to donate extra resources

Families

How would you evaluate your strategy?

Survey

Food diary maintenance

What resources do you need to make your intervention sustainable?

Money

Food

People

Transport

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Collection point for food / grab and go food

1. Goals of the strategy

Provide a balanced meal

Promote exercise

Providing food for children without parental help throughout the lockdown

2. Barriers:

Need many collection points

Children might need supervision

Harder for children that live further

Required proper storage to prevent spoiling

3. Local councils, school staff - help with funding, aid in delivery to far areas

4. Evaluation - level of participation, food leftover, get the children's view

5. Interventions:

Set up more collection point

Alternatively food delivery

Involve parents in collecting food

Long-live food

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summary of healthy food service:
- delivery of healthy food in baskets with the inclusion of physical activity resources (eg. skipping ropes)
- inclusion of diagrams such as healthy food pyramid and Australian guide to healthy eating
- inclusion of recipes to help the children learn to cook
- inclusion of seeds (to help grow fruit and veges)

what are the goals of your strategy:
- to educate children about healthy eating habits to facilitate health literacy and develop good habits at a young age.

would your proposed intervention from last week work:
- our intervention would work for this community because they are of school age
- having a healthy diet would also help children flourish, while being educated

who else needs to engage:
- school principle and teachers
- volunteers to deliver the food
- parents of children
- local sport facilitates could help lend out equipment

how would you evaluate your strategy:
- engage with the children via surveys, zoom presentations, interactive activities (can tick off the food they have tried on the healthy eating pyramid)

how to make this sustainable:
- have a rotating roster of volunteers to avoid fatigue
- food that doesn't expire easily

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A drive through or pick up service compiled of healthy snacks e.g., apples, sandwiches and whatnot for students of the school during lockdown.

1.     What are the goals of your strategy?

To provide healthy, ready prepared meals and snacks for students at the school throughout lockdown by the end of the first week of lockdown.

2.     Would your proposed intervention from last week work? Why or why not? Provide evidence to support this.

Maybe no – not everyone has access to cars or to pick things up.

3.     Who else do you need to engage with for your strategy to work?

Local grocers, services such as meals on wheels.

4.     How would you evaluate your strategy?

Tally the number of people who pick up the groceries. Send out a survey to the families.

5.     What resources do you need to make your intervention suitable?

Money,

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1. major innovations and reforms recently been introduced

2016 -  strategy for an “age-friendly society.”
2022 - including a youth mental health and well-being program, an antibiotic-resistance initiative, and a mental health program aimed at adults.
2018 - The National Health Data Program, launched. aims to make health data available for government agencies, researchers, managers, health professionals, and residents.

2. What is being done to reduce disparities

- A national 2013–2017 strategy, Equality and Equity in Health Care – Good Health for All, targeted social determinants of health.
- The NIPH publishes data on social inequality and health. Information on disparities in outcomes and access to care.

3. Role of the nurse in advancing health.

-  community care
-mental health care
- pt. education

4. comparison to Australia

- In Norway: Aim to transfer societal responsibility of handling minor drug offences from jurisdictional sector to health care sector.

- In Australia: Court lawyers are still responsible for drug offences.

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What major innovations & reforms have recently been introduced?
- coverage of tertiary care for vulnerable populations
- setting up the National Health Authority
- provision of universal sanitation coverage
- launched mission to achieve 90% vaccination coverage for children under 2
- providing clean cooking fuel
and nutritional & social support
- setting uniform standards for medical edu
- creating a health technology assessment body to evaluate all medical technologies.

What is being done to reduce disparities?
- promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women
- Provided financial assistance to patients suffering cancer/ life-threatening diseases/ hospital bills
- provided universal immunization for all children under age 2 and pregnant women

Role of the nurse in advancing health
- deliver a comprehensive care to all patients regardless their social status
- educating patients and families to promote their health outcomes

What surprised you about your findings & how does it compare to your own countries?
Children under 2, pregnant women, low-income people are not treated equally in the healthcare system. It is very similar to our countries- low-income people don't receive the care they need as they are not able to afford the costs and very minimal insurance coverage

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1. What major innovations and reforms have recently been introduced
- Food manufacturers have to make products that align with dietary regulations
- Consistent reporting of pt data to improve continuity of care between community and inpatient care
- Improved dental health care coverage
- Better care for the elderly

2. What is being done to reduce disparities
- Adapting care to make it more accessible to those with a low socioeconomic status. Most prominently, mental health and dental care for children and the elderly have been added to the NHI benefit package.
- Increasing supply of technologically advanced equipment in rural and remote areas
- PROVISION OF CULTURALLY SAFE CARE via the establishment of a national translation call center, and targeted interventions for the Bedouin and other high-risk groups.
- Implementing intersectoral efforts to address the social determinants of health and promote healthy lifestyles.

3. What is the role of the nurse in advancing health in these countries?
- 1/3 of israel's nurses work in community settings
- nurses are the ones providing telehealth services alongside physician guidance
- Nurses have extended scope of practice (treatment of acute/non critical disease, management of chronic illness and health promotion in the community

4. What surprised you about your findings and how does this compare to your own countries?
The discoveries were not very surprising since these innovations are similar to what is being done in Australia

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1. Care coordination is an issue

Health 2020 strategies aims to
-Improve quality of life

-Promoting equal opportunity

-Enhance quality of care

-Create more transparency and better governance

Promoting cross sector (forum for managed care awards reward for , federal office of public health)

Focused sectors are palliative care, dementia, noncommunicable diseases and mental health

2. Aim to facilitate easier access to health care

Strengthen health literacy focusing on migrant population

National priorities on addiction and mental health

Health access variation (by region and socioeconmic characteristics) are measured every 5 years.

3. Aid in increasing health literacy

Help patient manage their existing disease

Patient advocation

Introduce patients to health care service that can cater to their individual needs

4. Primary (and specialist) care tends to be physician-centered, with nurses and other health professionals playing a relatively small role.
- Vaccine can be selected

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What major innovations and reforms have recently been introduced?

Since June 2016, the NHIA has stepped up efforts aimed at strengthening primary care through delivery system integration and the establishment of a referral system. The six components of this new strategy are:

Enhancing the capacity of primary care

Incentivizing the public to use the referral system through adjustments to the copayment system

Raising payments to hospitals for critical care to incentivize hospitals to reduce services related to treating minor illnesses

Strengthening cooperation between hospitals and clinics to provide continuous care

Strengthening the public's capabilities in self-care

Strengthening the governance of hospitals.

What is being done to reduce disparities?

More than 3 million economically disadvantaged Taiwanese (12.8% of the population) have full access to NHI services

In the last year the government has lowered income threshold to allow more people to become eligible for the premium subsidies.

programs to integrate health and social care services (in progress)

the hospital patient centred integrated care programs

What is the role of the nurse in advancing health in these countries?

nurses provide preventive care and educated to lower the number of people needing to access healthcare

bridge the gap - nurses shift focus on low priority patients whilst doctors can attend to high priority patients.

What surprised you about your findings and how does this compare to your countries?

Percentage of people that have full access to healthcare is significantly lower then Australia

13.6 million (Australia) on PHI compared to 3 million (Taiwan)

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1.    What major innovations and reforms have recently been introduced?

-       Minimum staffing requirements for nurses in hospitals. Maximum patients per nurse has been defined

-       Aiming to reduce mandatory contributions that individuals contribute monthly

-       Health insurance is mandatory

2.    What is being done to reduce disparities?

-       National initiative of not-for-profit contributions to sickness funds to allow those who cannot contribute themselves to be allowed to access healthcare. Sickness funds support 22,000 health-related programs in nurseries, schools, and other settings.

3.    What is the role of the nurse in advancing health in these countries?

-       More autonomous and can advocate for patients and express disagreements about treatments with doctors

-       Advocate for better requirements for nursing ratios

-       Focused and defined ratio for ICU, geriatric, cardiac and trauma surgery

4.    What surprised you about your findings and how does this compare to your own countries?

-       More autonomy

-       Mandatory health insurance

-       Sickness funds

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1. what major innovations and reforms have recently been introduced:
Two policies have recently been introduced in New Zealand, with five specific themes:
- improving patient literacy and empowerment
- emphasising prevention, early intervention and community care
- improving system performance
- delivery integrated and collaborative healthcare delivery
- pressing technological innovation

2. what is being done to reduce disparities:
- NZ have made reducing disparity a policy priority
- Maori and Indigenous NZ population are reported to have a decreased life expectancy compared to rest of population
- Whanau Ora: policy designed to integrate health and social services

3. what is the role of the nurse in advancing health in these countries
- 10.2 nurses per 1000 people in the population
- nurses advocate for their patients,
- promoting quality and patient safety
- culture of openness and transparency
- various chronic disease management programs
- nurses must be certified annually to maintain their professional standards

4. what surprised you about your finding and how does this compare to your own countries
- larger population of public health services compared to Australia, however relatively similar

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1. what major innovations and reforms have recently been introduced?

2016 – introduced long-term fiscal austerity policies, followed by rationing measures.

2017 – approx. 1,200 ministerial directives that regulate transfers of federal resources were unified under a unique consolidation ordinance. In addition, the federal government has promoted the unification of SUS financing for primary care, complex health services, pharmaceutical care, and health surveillance and management.

2019 – new Brazilian government implemented other social, educational, and environmental policies that may threaten health.

Creation of a new secretary dedicated to primary care.

2. What is being done to reduce disparities?

-Ensure human rights and universal access for vulnerable groups
-Health policies

-Creation of the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health

-Development of local primary care services; mobile clinics for the homeless, floating health units in river communities, and indigenous health teams