Rationale Health Inequality

Running Head: HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH1
Introduction and rationale
Health inequality is described as the differences in the health outcomes and
experience between different population groups in accordance with geographic location,
socio-economic status, age, gender, disability or ethnicity (Bartley, 2016). Conversely, health
inequity is stated to the difference in the health outcome between population groups that had
resulted due to the distribution of resources, inequitable access and lack of access to the
health determinants. Health equity audit is a self-assessment tool that examines the provision
of allocation of resources in a fair manner in relation to the need of varied groups. It involves
a systematic review of the health inequalities and access to different types of services by a
particular group in a defined geographic area (Kallfa et al., 2019). The population health
indicators are analysed and evidence-based practice is applied to establish a relationship
between them. This will help in understanding the area lacking with respect to health status
and the areas that require focusing in order to improve the health status and outcome of the
specific location. The aim of this report is to conduct a health inequality audit for a specific
geographic region in Victoria, which is chosen to be Stormsland. Various aspects such as age,
indigenous status, birthplace, education, early child development, family, housing, transport
and disease-related data would be assessed.
Data analysis/application of the audit tool
With the help of the Social Health Atlas of Australia that involves data related to
different area and subzone of 2016, the National Audit was conducted. The factors that had
been taken into consideration include age distribution of male and age distribution of females
that helped in gaining an understanding of the population of the area, Stormsland as well as
the community in 15 different sub-zones of the area. The indigenous status of each zone was
assessed that is an important factor in the health audit assessment. According to the study
conducted by Shepherd et al. (2017), it can be stated that the indigenous people in Australia

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are more likely to have less access to healthcare services and thus are often found to have
poor health outcome. The assessment of this factor will help in the evaluation of the reason
because of which the healthcare access and facilities are sufficient or adequate in different
subzones of the area. Moreover, due to discriminatory behaviour and bias in all sectors, the
living standard of the indigenous people are low and non-confirmatory with respect to proper
health and hygiene (e Cruz et al., 2018). Thus, in order to determine the social determinant of
health, the identification of the indigenous status in each of the subzone was made. Another
important factor that affects the health status of the people, education plays an important role.
Schultz et al. (2018) opined that with the power of education, people attain the knowledge of
effective healthcare development and accessibility aspects; thus, this is a vital attribute that
was taken into account. The estimation of chronic diseases among the people of Stormsland
was identified as a critical aspect in the Health Audit Analysis as well as risk factors
involved. The following tables and graphs are the representation of the data in a presentable
form for the audience.
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