Aboriginal Healthcare: Importance of Effective Healthcare Services to Torres Strait Islanders

ABORIGINAL HEALTHCARE

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference list.................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
It is important to spread adequate healthcare services irrespective of their gender, caste and
cultural diversity. The effectiveness of the health care services irrespective of socio-cultural
background can be demonstrated as an ethical practice of an indiscriminate healthcare setting.
However, the aboriginals of the Torres Strait Islanders are deprived of the adequate healthcare
facility. The existence of discrimination in the healthcare practices can be identified as the key
reason for the unethical deprivation of the aboriginals of the Torres Strait Islanders. Reportedly,
it is found that the aboriginals of the Torres Strait islanders suffer from cardiovascular disease,
lungs problem and type 2 diabetes has remained unnoticed by the healthcare professional for a
long time. This is the reason for the short life expectancy of the aboriginals of Torres Strait
Islanders. As per the report of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS)
Report Card 2016, the aboriginals contribute 3% of the overall Australian population. However,
the mortality rate increased by 15% in the last twenty years due to the lack of adequate
healthcare facilities. These studies will unfold the importance of spreading effective healthcare
facilities to the aboriginals of the Torres Strait islanders respecting their socio-cultural values.
The effectiveness of health services and the required outcome will be briefly discussed in the
study. Additionally, the birthing model in the healthcare determinants will be analyzed based on
the healthcare needs of the aboriginals of Torres Strait Islanders. The social determinants of the
healthcare services for the aboriginals of Torres Strait islands will be analyzed based on the
related examples and healthcare documents. The concluding part of the study will summarize the
whole discussion and will focus on an overall recommendation for effective healthcare services
to the aboriginals of the Torres Strait Islanders.
Analysis
Healthcare services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders do not have sufficient access to the healthcare facility
in Australia due to the discrimination in the healthcare setting. No proper government or non-
government aid reaches them on time (Silverstein, 2017). Moreover, they cannot avail treatment
while changing cities due to their financial insufficiency. 64% of the aboriginals and Torres
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Strait Islanders suffer from several chronic diseases. However, they cannot get proper treatment
that can reduce their mortality rate (Taylor & McDermott, 2016). However, presently, the
Australian government and OSR organizations have taken initiatives to provide adequate
healthcare facility to the aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders' people (Campbell, Hunt,
Scrimgeour, Davey & Jones, 2018). The OSR organizations have taken an initiative where
around 68% of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait island people would come under primary
healthcare services.
The number of healthcare consumers of ACCHS services is increasing presently. This can be
identified as an ethical initiative to develop an indiscriminate healthcare setting in Australia.
Equality in healthcare services must be provided with high priority (Stoneman, Atkinson, Davey
& Marley, 2014). The increase rate in ACCHS’s OSR consumers is 9% every year. In the year
2012, the aboriginal clients under this scheme were 252,038 which are 274,848 in 2014-15.
Hence, it is also notable that the gap of the effective healthcare facilities between aboriginals and
non-aboriginals is still 39% which is needed to mitigate immediate basis.
Figure: clients by indigenous status
Source: Healthy Futures pdf (Aboriginal community controlled health services report card 2016)
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