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HEALTH ISSUES AMONGST INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND REST OF AUSTRALIA
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe reason behind presenting this report is to identify health issues in diverse communities. In this particular discussion, we have taken Indigenous Australia as the diverse community group and mental issues, depression and smoking as the health indicators affecting these communities. We further discuss the reasons for health inequality amongstthe Indigenous community and the rest dominant non Indigenous Australians. The report discusses who Indigenous Australians are, their cultural diversity, unemployment rates, and gender composition. It also provides an insight on the definition of good health, factors affecting the general health of individuals such as socio economic factors, health indicators and the causes of health disparity such as unemployment, poverty, lack of education, poor housing and health care infrastructure and non awareness of the impact of bad habits. It also provides withthe statistics of how Indigenous Australians are lacking in various fields than other communities which in turn are adversely affecting their health.2
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................4DISCUSSION...........................................................................................................................................4 PROFILE OF THE COMMUNITY...............................................................................................................5 DISCUSSION OF THE KEY ISSUE..............................................................................................................6 HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY-DEFINITION....................................................................................6 HEALTH INDICATORS.........................................................................................................................7CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................................103
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INTRODUCTIONBefore European colonisation, there were individuals who moved out from the groups of individuals who lived in Australia and the neighbouring islands; they are commonly known as Indigenous Australians. However, they are not a single group but large number of people with diverse culture, opinion and values. Torres Strait Islanders who originated from Torres Strait Island, part of Queensland and Aboriginal people who originated from almost all of the rest parts of Australia are the two separate groups who are referred as Indigenous Australians.Some of over 700 languages spoken by Australian at the time of colonization are even now spoken by these groups. Owing to recurring climatic changes indigenous people lived a nomadic life before the advent of Europeans and did not stay at a particular place for a long time. In order to have regular supply of food, they administered frail surroundings cautiously. In today’s scenario most of aboriginals resides in towns, cities and suburbs in vulnerable circumstances. Due to pilfering of their land, lot of indigenous people are employed in livestock ranches. However, several of them continue to hunt and reside on their terrain. Following incursion by the Britishers, most of their land was taken over (Survival. 2016) which adversely affected them physically and mentally and caused several diseases which in turn reduced their population.In this discussion, we will take mental health issues, depression and smoking into consideration and how they adversely affect Indigenous Australians more than non-Indigenous people. DISCUSSION1)PROFILE OF THE COMMUNITYPresently, Indigenous community accounts for around 3 percent of total Australian inhabitants (Discover Stories. 2015). They not only reside in suburbs but also in main towns and cities; almost 208,500 indigenous people are in New South Wales making it the largest state with such people and maximum ratio which is 30 percent in North Territory. However, 744,956 of these inhabitants are projected to be residing in Australia as per data collected from 2011 consensus. The Indigenous population comprises more of young people than old ones as compared to non-indigenous people. It is anticipated that in the year 2006, age of partial non –Indigenous inhabitants were 37 years or fewer which was 21years or fewer in case of indigenous inhabitants(Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2010). Also, in the year 2011, 4
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