Assignment on Health priority
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Assignment on Health priority
Added on 2021-04-16
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Running head: ASSESSMENT TASK 1NATIONAL HEALTH PRIORITYName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
ASSESSMENT TASK 11Health priority is a collective effort of the global and national healthcare facilities toprovide equal, adequate and best quality care to the people around them (Kohl et al., 2012).Ensuring this wide health coverage irrespective of other facts helps to achieve the healthobjectives decided by the World Health Organization as the sustainable development goals.Today’s world is interconnected and therefore, public health emergency in one country spreadsto another rapidly (Hastings, 2012). Hence, these healthcare emergencies are designated ashealth priority because when the countrymen are healthy and free from disease, the countrybenefits (Anderson et al., 2012). Autism is one of the health priorities in Australia and theAustralian government is taking important steps to provide necessary care to those affectedpeople so that collective improvement can be achieved. According to data from AustralianInstitute of Health and Welfare (2017), Autism spectrum disorder is one of the health priorityarea as 1 in every 150 Australian children is affected with autism. Further, it also provides theinformation that more than 85% of autism affected people are under low socio-economic status(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2017). Therefore, in this assignment, Autism will bediscussed as the health priority and will discuss the health determinants and risk factors of thisdisorder. Further, healthcare promotion strategies for the improved health outcomes willdiscussed in the context of Australian society. Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological disorder that affects the communication andsocial interaction skills as well as restricts the individual with repetitive pattern of actions andactivities (Castañeda et al., 2015). There are several social determinants of autism spectrumdisorder including parent’s socio-economic status, their education level and to some extent raceor ethnicity that affects the improvement of the autistic condition of health (Rivard et al., 2014).Further as discussed in previous section, people in low and middle income countries people do
ASSESSMENT TASK 12not believe that autism spectrum disease can be treated with pharmacological treatments andtherefore they apply mental healthcare interventions which are ineffective in this situation. Therisk factor of autism includes genetic and environmental factors (Russell et al., 2012). Further,attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fragile X-syndrome, learning disability, down syndrome,tuberous sclerosis, emotional dysregulation are few of the risk factors associated with thisdisease. Further, this disorders affects the five elements of wellbeing, which are career, social,emotional, physical and community wellbeing (Veenstra-VanderWeele et al., 2012). Withinthese, emotional wellbeing holds major importance, as due to autistic condition, individual withautism become anxious, conscious and confused as their language disability, learning disability,social understanding of relationships, sensory development and imagination is affected due tothis disorder. Therefore, they are not being able to clearly express their emotions and comfort ordiscomfort affecting their social as well as physical wellbeing (Rivard et al., 2014). Furthermore,due to autism spectrum, affected individuals are unable to make decision regarding their personalhygiene, sexuality, physical changes moreover females affected with autism are not being able tomaintain their female health needs. Therefore, their physical, mental and social wellbeing isaffected (Veenstra-VanderWeele et al., 2012). According to the governmental data of Australia, in June 2016, there were more than75,000 children aged from 0 to 15 years affected with autism spectrum disorder. Further, themaximum number of affected children were seen in the age group of 5 to 14 years of age.Further, according to Elsabbagh et al., (2012), the boys are at higher risk as compared to girls incase of autism spectrum disease. Researchers Castañeda et al., (2015), described the occurrencesex ratio 4:1 (male: female) by including 52 girls and 273 boys receiving autism care in theirstudy. Further from the conducted study they identified that there are phonotypical difference
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