Health and Education of Aboriginal Community

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Health and Education of Aboriginal
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Part 1
Shared responsibility for the common good is not being realized
This particular essay wants to critically appraise and examine the common good of the health
care condition of the indigenous people in the community. Till now for a long time period, the
healthcare condition among the groups of social community and the indigenous communities are
not the same and there is a trend of enlarging the disparity (Clifford, McCalman, Bainbridge &
Tsey, 2015). In Australia, the Indigenous Australians have highly experienced the healthcare
gap. The essay will critically examine the common good of the Indigenous people that have not
been realized. After that, it will provide four paragraphs that will address the possible solutions
in order to realize the common good of the Indigenous community. Also, it will end by providing
a brief conclusion related to the issue.
For the health professionals, culturally competent care is considered to be the necessary and
inherent element that comprises of cultural respect, cultural safety, and cultural awareness
(Ferguson et al., 2016). The culturally competent care provided by the healthcare professionals
are not only significant to all the Indigenous communities but also to the health students.
Meanwhile to provide with culturally competent care realizing the common good deals with
various challenges that need to be reformed and improved. The wide gap of health status among
the Indigenous and the non-indigenous people is not only found in Australia but also to the other

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developed countries like Canada and the US. Also in these countries migrant health care
professionals those who are employed are increasing day-by-day based on the issue of shortage
of nursing (Day, Nakata, Nakata & Martin, 2015). This, in turn, presents new solutions in order
to solve the issues in today’s generation. The culturally competent healthcare provisions is a vital
tool that makes it simple for the social, economic and political disadvantages of the Indigenous
communities and supposes to clear the gap that enlarges the disparity of the health among the
wide range of the population.
Part 2
Propose ways to address the challenge
The first priority for healthcare professionals is to undergo sufficient training based on culturally
competent care. Across the world, there is a number of territory institution with different
faculties and courses that provide with the training of culturally competent care. It can be seen
that Catholic Social Teaching (CST), covers all the elements of life such as the spiritual,
personal, political and economic (Briskman, 2016). In the principles of CST human dignity is at
the center that tends of holistic development. Each and every person must have the sufficient
knowledge of the resources and goods of the community that should be balanced with the needs
of disposed and disadvantages. By strengthening the government programs of the Indigenous
people the challenges could be reduced. Cultural barriers play a vital role in addressing the health