Coronary Heart Disease in Indigenous Community in Australia

“Coronary heart disease” in the
indigenous community in
Australia.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Literature review .............................................................................................................................4
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................4
Objective:...............................................................................................................................4
Background:...........................................................................................................................4
Methods:.................................................................................................................................4
Discussion:.............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion: ............................................................................................................................5
Keywords: ..............................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND..............................................................................................5
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
The concept of public health is associated with the discipline of public health and the
nature as well as scope of public health activity (Schneider, (2020). There are challenges like
unhealthy lifestyles, ageing population and others faced by public health within twenty first
century (Engelman, Mataika (2017). It is concluded that principles and practices of public health
are followed for managing the implementation of effective health services (Holland, (2015).
There are few health issues which have changed the focus and activity of public health (Bowen,
and et.al,(2020). There is discussion about several public health and social policies within
Australia developed for indigenous group and community for managing the improvement in
health condition such as Medicare policy and AIHW health safety measures. In this report, there
is discussion about various literature reviews on “Coronary heart disease” in the indigenous
community in Australia (Koppad, Kaulgud, and Arun, (2017).
Main body
Medicare pay policy, in this policy government provide the Medicare membership plan
where they offer the different discount plans on treatment, medication and test of heart disease
(Fullen, Jordan, Sharma (2020). Medical research funding, Australian government make the
higher amount of funding for medical research of disease treatment modification, for
development of more effective medication and intervention (Straker, Mountain, Jacques (2017).
National centre for monitoring chronic conditions, AIHW is managing this centre in order to
monitor the reports of heart stroke and vascular conditions (Lawless, Baum (2018). Heart
foundation partnership with the Stroke Foundation in order to make the effective strategies for
heart disease and stroke treatment and action plan (Jin and et.al., (2019). cardiovascular health
mission is the presently developed plan which has invested the $220 million by funding for
improvement of this health care condition (Alston, L., Allender, S., Peterson (2017). National
strategic action plan for childhood heart disease, is the government health care association for the
child heart disease management (Farmakis and et.al., (2015). Government have developed the
stages of intervention such as upstream intervention which involves the health care policy for
public health safety , midstream intervention which involves the intervention inside the health
care organisation for proper treatments of the problems (González-Chica, Mnisi (2016).
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Downstream intervention is the process of providing health care knowledge for prevention of the
disease.
Literature review
Australian adults' behaviours, knowledge and perceptions of risk factors for heart disease: A
cross-sectional study Erin Hoare,a,⁎ Bill Stavreski,b Bronwyn A. Kingwell,a,1 and Garry L.
Jenningsa
ABSTRACT
Objective:
The main aim of this research is to determine Australian adult's perception for risk factors
of heart disease (Davey, (2020). This report will also focus upon self reported behaviors
associated with modifiable risk factors (Watkins, Beaton, Carapetis (2018).
Background:
The aboriginal people of Australia are having poor health and social indicators (Gwynne,
Jeffries and Lincoln, (2019). The substantial life expectancy gap between Urban Australians and
aboriginal people of Australia is wide in context of premature cardiovascular disparities
(Mukherjee, Sequira, and Vaz, (2018). The main focus is on primary care practitioners which
can contribute in minimising cardiovascular disciplinarians and enhancing the aboriginal health
(Francis, and et.al, (2020). This is a research which focuses upon examining cardiovascular
disparities (Davis, Remenyi, Draper (2018).
Methods:
This study reports on Heart watch survey and data is collected in the year 2015 and
sample size included Australian adults (Bertaina, Rouchon, Huon (2017). The setting of
research was Australian communities which included state and territories that have represented a
final sample. The participants were adults of Australia under the age of 30-59 years (Belguith,
Abdelkafi, El Mhamdi (2017).
Discussion:
Aboriginal people of Australia are facing poorer health and minimised life expectancy as
compared to other Australians (Heraganahally, and et.al, (2019). According to the American
Heart Association, Indigenous Australians are having high burden of cardiovascular disease
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