Aboriginal Mental and Physical Well-being Assignment
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Running head: ABORIGINAL MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEINGABORIGINAL MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEINGName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
1ABORIGINAL MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEINGIntroductionThis essay aims to address the statement given in The Constitution for theNational AboriginalCommunity Controlled HealthOrganization(NACCHO, 2011, p. 55). The essay will centerround the different strategies to ensure culturally safe and spiritual wellbeing in the patient. Insupport of this statement I have provide with strategies that can cover the gap between theindigenous and the westernized health care. I have also made sure that my strategies do nothamper the cultural safety of the aboriginals. The later part of the discussion addresses theimportance of the collaborative care approach for the aboriginals.In order to analyze the statement in The Constitution for theNational AboriginalCommunity Controlled HealthOrganization(NACCHO, 2011, p. 55), it is important tounderstand social barriers that prevent the indigenous people to get a proper health care.The aboriginal people have a varied range of cultural beliefs that does not align with theWesternized concept of the non indigenous Australian population. The Indigenous people have abelief that health is related to maintenance of the life balances (Taylor & Guerin, 2010, p.123).They are deeply connected to their tradition and culture and believe in the traditional methods oftreatment. Different researches say that the aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders experience avery low standard of health compared to that of the non aboriginals. The reason behind this ismultifactorial. The factors contributing to this inequality of health services are the racism, socioeconomic status, poverty, disempowerment, discrimination and dispossession (Wepa 2015,p.22).
2ABORIGINAL MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEINGThe health care services provided by the government often do not meet the health carerequirements of the aboriginals. The aboriginal community health services have developed inorder to reach out to the aboriginals. This organization is managed by the local indigenouscommunity, by an elected board of directors. As state governments have refused to provide anyfinancial support, arguing that the aboriginals have access to the mainstream care, The ACCHhas been thriving entirely upon the donations. ACCHS (Aboriginal community controlledhealth service) is a health care service provided to the aboriginal Australians. The ACCHSaimed at providing primary care to the aboriginals. Currently over a hundred community existsin Australia providing physical as well as spiritual support to the aboriginal people (Swan &Raphael, 2006). In order to address spiritual well being in the aboriginals The Prime minister hastaken “Close the gap” policy framework.This framework had 6 specific goals which include thelife expectancy gap in a generation, accessing education to all the aboriginal children, reducingthe gapin reading, writing and numeracy accomplishment for children and reducing the gap forIndigenous students in Year 12 attainment or equivalent attainment rates by 2020; and lessen thegap in service outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in a decade.The National aboriginal Torres Strait islanders plan has been established by theAustralian government in order to fill the gaps in the health outcome with the aboriginal people.This plan has been established in 2008, for tackling the health parities faced by the indigenouspeople (Best, 2009 p.25).The visions of this plan are to make the Australian system free of racism and inequalityand such that all the Torres strait Islanders get high quality, effective and affordable services.
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