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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Assignment

   

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Running Head; Learning influence on Health culture of Indigenous personsUNIVERSITY:STUDENT DETAILSNAMEIDCOURSE UNITTASKLearning influence on Torres Strainght Islander and Aboriginal health state
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Reflection on indigenous Australian population health statusIntroduction Australians enjoy general good health; however there are some few disparities which hamper good health across the board. The health difference of the diverse populations of Australian has incorporated disparities in terms of occurrence of death and disease, the expectancy of life and the overall health of the population towards , health care services, (ABS, 2014). Healthy inequity as described by WHO refers to attributable health variations on health outcome of the people. Thus health inequity refers to the general difference in health attributable environment conditions outside control of individuals, (AIHW, 2013). The Aboriginal National Healthy Strategy has defined health equity among the indigenous population of Australian as not only the physical well being of individuals but also the social , emotional and cultural well being of the whole community as a whole. In Australia, health inequity between the aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders and the non indigenous people in the overall population has been shown to be highest according to WHO.Thus the need to focus on the cultural identify and equity among the Australian population. Cultural context of the Indigenous population of Australia (Aboriginal and Torres Islander)The queen Island aboriginal people have been seen to enjoy diverse living cultures. The community set ups vary in terms of geographical, the socio demographic and economic distributions which incorporates cultural norms, (Gee et al., 2011).Torres Strait Islanders have often been called their islands the Torres’s Strait Home. The natural culture of aboriginal people has seen the islanders benefiting from their diversity with their own culture by being oppressed and disadvantaged, (ABS, 2016). The colonization of Australian nation led to emergence of unjust and misguided polices against Aboriginal and Torres’s Strait Islander people. This has been manifested in the treatment of the people and discrimination coupled with cultural diversification. This has led to the fact the indigenous Australians are experiencing substantial worse health and variedsocial outcomes compared to other Australians, (Zubrick et al., 2014).With view of these studies highlighting the health inequities of the torres and islander people, it has brought difficult aspect as to the focus of health attention. However focus now has shifted on identifying reliable traditional population statistics which will assist in planning health care access services. Health accessHealth equity concerns everyone in the community, thus for ensuring that they have 3
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