3 Dimensions Of Power In Health And Social Care

Criteria 4 - Power:
Three dimensions of power:
First is equivalent to pluralism where the voice of the problems is not compressed by the power but instead heard. The second dimension is where the problems are supressed by the use of power which suppresses conflicts problems are kept out of political or decision making process by removing them thus it quiets the whole community (Belcher 2014). The third dimension is where the people who being shaped without them even knowing. Lukes maintains that peoples expressed preferences and interests are shaped by socialisation, education and the media, thereby creating a system of dominant values and belief’s: ideology. Conflict is usually dormant until provoked, because most people are oblivious to the
Community discussions were performed to make sure they had the say in how the policy which was made for them should be planned, designed and implemented making the health plan more ethical for the community. Developed partnership with Disability care Australia and designed ‘National Disability Insurance Scheme’ to make the policy accessible to the disabled in the community as well. Ethical clinical practices were ensured by fusion of western and traditional clinical practices for remedies in future and by giving the patient a right to make their choice. Although the policy does not mention if the policy was translated to the local languages to make is easier for the illiterate people to
The policy over all is improving skills of every individual by enhancing their knowledge of their health and all the determinants of health by offering choices, free supports and basic rights to live a healthy life.

Reorienting health services: This requires changes in the attitude and organisation of health services and changes to professional education, training and research. This is exactly what the policy did , before this policy , nobody cared about bringing changes to these areas around health but this policy came up with a whole set of revised and few new changes to all these areas in health for the mostly neglected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. (Victorian Government Department of Human Services 2008).

Framework for Health Promotion Action Keleher and Murphy 2004 : Policy has used this framework as well, where on upstream level the state government, federal government and local government is involved with policy making, then it also works on midstream level where all the health organisations, and other organisations like education and food industries are involved, it is more like community based approach and also, downstream approach where every person is personally gets affected as well in terms of personal choices that they can make (Keleher