Culturally Competent Care for Indigenous Communities: A Case Study of Matt

Running head: ASSIGNMENT ON TOPIC 1
ASSIGNMENT ON TOPIC 1
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ASSIGNMENT ON TOPIC 1
Introduction:
The health gap existing between the indigenous people and the non-indigenous people
is indeed a concerning topic of concern and government is trying its best to mitigate the gap.
Different campaigns had been initiated like the Close the Gap and Closing the Gap that had
yet not able to overcome the gap (Scott, 2015). Culturally competent care is extremely
important to make indigenous communities seek for support and receive the care that they
expect and require for better health (Cashman et al. 2016). This assignment would discuss
different aspects of the case study of Matt who had received culturally competent care.
However, some nurses still think that they have achieved more preference because of their
cultural orientation. All such factors would be analysed in the assignment.
Discussion:
Close the Gap and Closing the Gap are two similarly named programs but have
different approaches. Close the Gap is actually a public awareness campaign mainly focusing
on closing the health gap present between the indigenous people and the non-indigenous
people of the nation. This campaign is mainly run by numerous NGOs as well as different
human rights organisations, indigenous health bodies and including the Australian Human
Rights Commission (AHRC). This campaign had mainly been launched in the year 2007 after
Dr Tom Calma (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner) released
the social justice report (Brown et al., 2015). This campaign had been found to gain support
from that of the state as well as the federal governments when COAG Council of Australian
Governments had set two important health aims and six important targets in the year 2008.
This program mainly aimed in achievement of health equality within a generation and also
focusing on having the hap in rate is mortality for children under that of five years. Following
this, the then prime minister namely Kevin Rudd along with the opposition leader namely,