Aboriginals and their healthcare

This presentation discusses the healthcare disparities faced by Aboriginals and Torres Islander people in Australia due to historical events and discrimination. It emphasizes the importance of culturally competent healthcare services and evidence-based strategies. The presentation also covers the sharing of health information and the need for cultural safety in healthcare services.

Aboriginals and their healthcare

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Introduction:
• Aboriginals and Torres islander people living in the nation of Australia for a
large number of centuries
• In spite of being native to the land, they had faced humiliations and
exploitation in the hands of the European settlers
• Huge gap is present between their health and that of the non-indigenous
people
• Culturally competent healthcare services and proper evidence based
strategies are important

Personal identity
• I am from Nepal
• My community was close-knit community where all the individuals
worked and helped with each other in any crisis period
• I am from Hindu religion
• We welcome people from any other religion or castes and try to help
them in every ways possible

My Understanding of the aboriginals and Torres islander people:
• Aboriginals and Torres islander people are mainly the first inhabitants of
the nation of Australia
• Clear disparities have been found between the Indigenous as well as the
non-Indigenous Australians
• experience lower standards of health and even education, housing,
employment and others
• suffer from higher death rates, infant mortality, hospitalization, poor
education and unhygienic lifestyles

The identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people:
• native people of the nation of Australia were the oldest
surviving culture in the world
• established maintaining their land as well as their society that
were sustainable and ensured good health.
• occupied the nation about 60000 years

Historical events:
• significant trading that went on within the diverse cultures of the people
who inhabited the continent
• no exchange took place between the native and that of the other parts in
the world
• people from the present nation of Indonesia developed trade relations
with people of the north
• negative outcomes also surfaced especially the introduction of negative
habits and advancement of new diseases in case of European settlers

Impact of European settlement:
• In the year 1770, the English explorer named James cook was seen to
claim about the eastern part of the Australian continent under the name
of the king called the King George III
• Despite having knowledge about the existence of this people, the British
were seen to consider the nation of Australia to be a “terra nullius”
• This is actually a Latin term that in Latin means the land belonging to no
one

Health and diseases:
• Europeans had resistance against various kinds of disorders such as that of
bronchitis, scarlet fever, measles, common cold, as well as chicken pox but
affected native people
• Changes to diet also led to many cases of ill health among the native
people
• cases of starvation and for other this leads others to the adoption of
European style of foods
• worst quality food and cheapest grains and meat that did not nourish
them well
• Alcohol was also introduced

Racism, discrimination and power relations:
• capitalist economic system mainly concentrated on the ownership of
productive resources like that of land and equipments
• Discrimination based on the power reached to such an extent where the
inhabitants were driven away from their land or was murdered
• production of sugar, rice, tobacco, flaco and others. This was done for the
profitable sale in the advanced capitalist countries

Law and kinship:
• The white Australia policy was introduced which stopped the non-white
people from migrating in the land of the nation.
• assimilation policy. This made the native people to force them in ways by
which they become assimilated to a part of thee white society forcing
them to live in some ways like the Europeans.
• Another policy was introduced in the early 1900s where it was seen that
the Aboriginal Australian children were removed from their family giving it
as an activity of the stature of the genocide

How health information is shared;
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013–2023 has
been developed by the Australian government under the initiative of
closing the Gap.
• vision to make every healthcare system free from racism as well as
inequality
• Aboriginal health unit had developed South Western Sydney Local Health
District Aboriginal Health Plan, which had put fords the statistical data
collected about the health of the people, and accordingly goals had been
set for overcoming the barriers.
• Collaborations, openness, respect as well as empowerment were made
the main foundations of these policies.

Cultural safety in the healthcare services:
• one of the most important parts for the healthcare professionals to
develop cultural awareness and knowledge about what the native people
follows in their culture, their diet, their inhibitions, their lifestyles, their
language, their family system and others
• overcome any form of cultural biasness
• Non-verbal communication forms one of the most important part in
providing them service that aligns with their culture

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