Case Study: Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Health

The following report will focus on the health plan Koolin Balit: Victorian Government strategic directions for Aboriginal health 2012-2022 (Koolin Balit). This report will firstly provide an overview of Koolin Balit and will discuss the selected health plan Key Priority Area Two: Healthy Childhood. The at-risks groups pre-school and primary school aged Aboriginal children affected by the priority area will then be discussed. There are three Determinants of Health (DOH) that will be focused on throughout the report, these being education, food (access to and distribution) and access to care and health services (Keleher & MacDougall, 2016). Evidence will be used throughout the report to support the DOH and discuss the relevance of the DOH to Key Priority Area Two: Healthy Childhood.

One of the six key priorities for targeted work by PHNs is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream health services and national health data sets is a fundamental barrier to achieving health equality for all Australians. The Indigenous population in Australia have historically had, and continue to have significantly worse health outcomes than the general Australian population.

Compare the health of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders against the general population. According to 2011 Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates that in 2016, 744,956 Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal live in Australia. NSW had the largest number of Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal. NT had the highest proportion of Torres Strait Islanders Aboriginal in the population.

This case study focuses on the health status of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. There are different factors that impact their health for example social factors and health problems, in the community some of the people fail to seek medical attention due to difference in beliefs and culture. This has made majority of the people to live undiagnosed illness. In this case after the review of systems of Uncle Jim, he has many problems concerning his health which calls for immediate medical attention but this has been disabled due to poverty and ignorance especially concerning nutrition and effects of smoking which has resulted in many other severe medical problems.

The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, (NACCHO) is an existing representation of the hope of Aboriginal communities and their fight for self-rule. NACCHO is the nationwide climax organization representative. It controls over 150 Aboriginal Community Health Services (ACCHSs) across the country on Aboriginal health and issues.

As health professionals, we must look beyond individual attributes of Indigenous Australians to gain a greater understanding and a possible explanation of why there are such high rates of ill health issues such as alcoholism, depression, abuse, shorter life expectancy and higher prevalence of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and obesity in our indigenous population. Looking at just the individual aspects and the biomedical health model, we don’t get the context of Aboriginal health. This is why we need to explore in further detail what events could have created such inequities in Aboriginal health. Other details that we should consider are the historical and cultural factors such as, ‘terra nullius’, dispossession and social

PART B As a young nation settled by colonisation very little attention was paid to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, and the impact that colonisation had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Due to government policies that governed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people either living in reserves or within regional cities, access to health services was limited for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Also, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people residing in reserves were often denied the right to practice cultural medicine practices and unable to obtain traditional medicines due to being isolated from their nation (Best, O. Fredericks, B., 2017). These circumstances led to a decline in health for

These groups are different to other indigenous groups around the world. Among Aboriginal peoples, there are a numerous amount of similar historical and contemporary social determinants that have shaped the health and well being of individuals, families, communities and nations. However, distinctions in the origin show and give impact on social determinants and impact on health interventions to make sure they are successful.

Aboriginal Health and Health Care The article is about aboriginal health and health disparities or gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal. The significant key points in the article includes aboriginal are the poorest people in Canada. Aboriginals suffer from higher rates of chronic diseases, have high infant mortality rate, shorter lifespans, and also experience higher rates of domestic violence as well as sexual assault than non-aboriginal people.

The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, (NACCHO) is an existing representation of the hope of Aboriginal communities and their fight for self-rule. NACCHO is the nationwide climax organization representative. It controls over 150 Aboriginal Community Health Services (ACCHSs) across the country on Aboriginal health and issues.

This paper will examine the healthcare of Indigenous Australian peoples compared to non-indigenous Australians. The life expectancy gaps between the two are a cause for alarm when statistics show Indigenous Australian peoples die on average 17 years earlier than non-indigenous Australians (Dick 2017). This paper will examine the social determinants of health to explore these factors and what interventions are in place to improve health status and life expectancy gaps for equality. The Federal Government has seen the implementation of the Northern Territory Intervention and the Closing the Gap Initiative. This essay will examine these two strategies and discuss the effectiveness of both policies. It will explain the differences, similarities and look at the success so far to

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For aboriginal IMR has dropped from 25·0 in 1980—84 to 16·1 in 1998—2001. And for other population IMR dropped from 8·4 in 1980—84 to 3·7 in 1998—2001. (The Lancet, 2014) There is significant difference between this two data. Lack of access to primary health care facility and requirement of immediate access leads to this huge number IMR in aboriginal.

Indigenous populations in Australia are considered to have poor health conditions when compared to non-Indigenous population. Their burden of chronic disease is 2.3 times than the non-Indigenous peoples. Consequently, the life expectancy of Indigenous peoples is ten years lesser than the non-Indigenous Australians. Poor health condition of Indigenous people has been significantly influenced by social inequalities such as colonisation and subsequent policies, poor education, low income, lack of employment, inadequate housing and lack of access to health services (Delbridge et al., 2018). In this task it will be discussed about how primary health care services (PHC) provide education, support, and health promotion in order to improve

Colonialism in Australia places a detrimental threat to the health of Indigenous Australians. Inherent in colonialism were scientific racisms, institutional racism and structural violence. These factors continues to persist in the fabric of Australian society today and limits the life chances of Indigenous Australians. This essay illuminates colonialism as a major contributor to the social marginalisation and low socioeconomic status experienced by indigenous Australian. An analysis of Aboriginal infant mortality rate, a health indicator highlights the difference between biomedical and sociological approach and the embedded negative impact of social marginalisation and low socioeconomic status on the health of Indigenous Australians. The