Examining Cultural Needs in Healthcare for Indigenous Australians

This essay delves into the unique cultural and healthcare needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, focusing on communication, equality, and healthcare education. It highlights the differences between traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander beliefs and the Australia...Read More

The unique cultural needs of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
Communication need.........................................................................................................................3
Equality need.....................................................................................................................................5
Health care education need................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Cultural, health care needs are denoted as the needs and requirements associated with
the culture and health care of the society. In this project precise information will be projected
in respect to the cultural, health care requirements. Henceforth, report will emphasis over
three different cultural and health care requirements of Australia. Furthermore, in this project
three different components associated with those specified cultural;, health care needs of the
country. Precise information in respect to such needs of country will be given in this project.
Why such needs and essential in context to the country will also analyse in this project.
MAIN BODY
Communication need
Communication is about to interact in respect to medical emergency. This is a primary
step taken whenever any health care or medical emergency entertained. Communication is
done with doctors and medical staff that can cure the respective disease (Qureshi, 2020).
Communication involves the proper interaction in between medical professionals and patient
or the respective family members of such patient. This is an important process associated
with the medical treatment practice in which the patient communicate with the hospital or
other health care professionals like doctor or nurses about the health care emergency that
person is suffering. All health care professionals can proceed further once the patient and its
associated family members communicate about the disease. If the patient requires medical
emergency than family members of patient can communicate over phone calls or they can go
directly to the hospital and interact with the doctors. These are the standard ways to
communicate about the disease or the medical emergency patient is needed.
Cultural health care needs of aboriginal and Torres straits islander people are being
identified with various needs such as needs of not communicating what disease they are
facing which leads to increased death ratio amongst there society as they feel it against there
culture, values, belief and norms and not accounts to take proper care of there health and to
treat at the moment when disease is being identified,. Instead they account to various
traditional method of treating and preventing disease which they are facing and believes in
the same where disease eventually increase which is being not known by them and when it is
very high and spreads it is out of control of various professional to account to their survival
where it includes losing of their lives. They need identified here is late communication which

when communicated by islander people effectively will lead to their survival and wellbeing.
One of the major flaws which is also associated with it it leads to spread of disease and virus
to other individuals of society, which as a result will decreases their immunity level of several
individuals and leads to increased death among the society (Caffery,2017). If these needs of
communication among members will not be communicated than as a result it will also leads
to misfunctioning of various other parts and will lead to more problems where slight day by
day there health keep on declining. It is required on part of same to communicate it on time
where they will receive treatment with full care and which helps in diagnosing the need at
initial phases.
Cultural health care needs different from Australian health care model
Australian government has given a huge emphasis over developing the best level of
system in the Australia that can match the international standards associated with the health
care services. Australian model is very progressive in nature. Government in Australia has
invested potential amount of resources to achieve the best standards in respect to the health
care sector. Progressive model for health care has always guided the government in Australia
to make the advanced health care system (Daly, McDonald and Willis, 2020). This would
also support the health care tourism in Australia as it would motivate the people all across the
globe to visit Australia to improve their health care. In current time all efforts of government
has provided right as all such efforts allowed the government to achieve the best quality
standards in Australia in context to the health care. Progressive mindset of Australian
government has supported in advancing all the medical equipments and excellence of the
medical cure process. Progressive mindset also drives the government to spread awareness in
respect to various diseases and its related communication. Government has always been
engaged in spreading awareness in the people of Australia to make them capable of getting
the best level of medical assurance at the time disease happened to them.
Aboriginal and Torres community is the backward and tribal community based in
Australia. They are very backward due to not having the education or even the mindset they
carry is very old. This mindset and attitude of these people do not allow them to
communicate about the diseases they suffer. Whenever any disease happen they do not
communicate with the nearby doctors or any medical staff to cure such a disease (Garrison Jr
and et.al., 2018). This backward mindset of these people could make them suffer in long run.

Many people of these community found dead due unavailability of the medical support. This
side of Australia is different from the general model of Australia related to the health care.
Registered nurses can do to provide culturally safe health care
Registered nurses are engaged with the health care sector. They are the nurses who
are registered with the health care sector. Nurses can play a significant role in spreading
awareness in the Aboriginal and Torres community about whenever any disease happened to
them they should go to the hospital for proper medication (Mihalopoulos and et.al., 2020).
Nurses can go to these people to spread the awareness in respect to all types of disease as
they are not educated which makes them more backward in medical terminologies. Nurses
can motivate them in such a way that any time any disease happened to them they must
communicate with the nearby hospitals or doctors in order to cure the disease. This
community is very afraid in respect to take medical surveillance. The awareness in the
community would motivate them to resist this mindset and mentally which further support
them in getting the best level of health care support.
Equality need
In health care sector doctors and other medical staff can belong to any gender. They
can be male or female. In the Australia among the Aboriginal and Torres community this is
the mentality that they are backward in respect to cure from opposite gender professional
(MIHALACHE and et.al., 2019). This mentality allows the spread opposite gender awareness
need in respect to cure the disease. This involve making these people realise that they should
not differentiate between male and female all are equal. An individual must not be ideal sided
based on the gender but rather they should be idolised on the basis of the knowledge and
potentials they carry. This is among the primary need and requirement associated with the
culture health care of the Australia.
This need is very much differ from the Australia health care model. In Australia the
health care model support the equality at work place. Not only in the health care sector but at
any other corporate place equality is an integral part of the society. All professionals and
employees must be treated equally irrespective to the gender, community, religion and any
other social factor (Ateke and Kalu, 2019). Aboriginal and Torres community differentiate
between male and female and many times if the patient is male than that patient resist in
getting treatment from the female doctors or in case of female patient than the circumstances
requires only female doctor to cure the disease. This mentality is potentially different from

the usual health care model implemented in Australia. Government put plenty of efforts to
spread the awareness in respect to equality at work place. Australia is a developed country.
Usually in the country people do not differentiated in between male and female. This is a
tribal community and uneducated which could not develop the mentality and mindset of these
peoples. It is entirely different from the general behaviour entertained in Australia with the
medical professionals.
Registered nurses associated with the health care sector in Australia can play role in
spreading awareness about the equality. They can educate the Aboriginal and Torres
community about the equality and the fundamentals that health care professionals must be
analysed on the basis of the potentials and abilities they posses but not based on the specific
gender they belong. Nurses can also handle the situation where the people from the
Aboriginal and Torres community resist getting treatment from the opposite gender to control
the situation. Equality will bring many positive changes in the health advancement of the
community. If they get the proper awareness about the equality and not entertaining any kind
differentiation than they will get the proper medication on time in order to cure the respective
disease. This step or need will bring the positive change in the health benefits of these
community members.
Health care education need
Health care education need is about to spread the education in respect to different
disease and its cure process. Health care education is among the crucial requirement every
individual must grab so that they can take the necessary steps (Barbiani, Nora and Schaefer,
2016). This is a key requirement associated with the cultural health care requirements in
Australia.
In Australia government support the medical awareness in the normal people of the
country. The Aboriginal and Torres community is very backward and uneducated which do
not make them aware about the disease and the possible actions taken when ay disease
occurred to them. They still belong to the traditional techniques used to cure the patient
(Cornish and et.al., 2020). Aboriginal and Torres community not educated about the medical
emergencies and the steps taken to cure the disease.
Registered nurses can provide the general education over different disease and various
steps needs to be taken to cure the disease. Nurses can play an important role in spreading the
health care education among the Aboriginal and Torres community. They can take sessions

for the children and parents of such children’s of this community so that education can spread
in this community. This is a key role medical nurse can play in order to meet the education
need of this community. Nurses will not only make the people educate of this community and
also they can guide the people about all different necessary steps taken at the time any health
care emergency occurred. This would reduce the death ration of this community also.
CONCLUSION
Health care sector is about to serve the best level of health care services so that proper
medication can be granted to the people of the country. Different needs are associated with
the health care sector in Australia especially in context to cultural health care process. Need
such as communication, equality and health care education need. All these three needs and
requirements are the key needs associated with the health care sector of Australia.
Government can achieve the best level of health care standards through the progression of all
these needs and requirements associated with the health care sector.
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