Case Study on Health in Australia
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Case Study on Health in Australia
Added on 2020-05-08
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Running head: HEALTH1HEALTH IN AUSTRALIAName:Institution:
HEALTH2Health in AustraliaThe health of individual or community is affected by environment, politics, occupation, culture and many other factors. Using Gibbs’s reflection cycle, I will discuss the different determinants of health and the impacts among Australia's Pacific Islander (Samoan). Some of thecommon health issues (HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer and poor pregnancy outcomes) are related topoor dietary habits among in this community. An individual from Samoan is seven times highly likely to be hospitalized for diabetes-related complications compared to the rest of the population. In addition, a Samoan is highly likely to die of preventable conditions including heart and kidney conditions. All these conditions are deeply rooted in unsupportive dietary habits. Most of the people affected by malnutrition are the people living in the urban areas. Because of urbanization, people have changed their living style, and they eat unhealthy foods. Unhealthy eating leads to rapid weight gain and related conditions. By working in the community in a program aimed mitigating on HIV/AIDS, I have learned a great deal about this community. I have noticed that they hardly trust outsiders in matters of health. It took months for me to learn a few local phrases and to interact with them on a daily basis to earn their trust. The central purpose of the nutrition education program(NEP) is to help individuals and families with PLWHA with limited resources make healthier food choices and adopt physically active lifestyles by mastering the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior changes vital to better their health and life in general. NEP is accessible to all youths living and women with HIV/AIDS at no cost. Some of the possible strategies are community andschool gardens, healthy food pantries and community sporting activities for women and youths
HEALTH3living HIV/IDS. In collaboration with community partnerships, NEP works towards improving the health of the Samoans. According to Gibbs’ action plan stage, more can be done. The program coverage has not been felt in every part of the community. Given another chance Centers will be established in a 10-kilometer radius from each other to enhance access. Each center will have five personnel eachtrained different aspects if HIV/AIDS nutrition management: nurse, nutritionist, doctor, sports scientists and an agriculturist. All programs activities will be conducted from centers establishedin Samoan during the first three weeks of program initiation. Afterward, some activities including community and school gardening program will be scaled up to individuals’, community’s or schools’ gardens (Whitehead et al., 2014). This is important in ensuring that the participants can practice what they learn at the centers. Cancer is also another common illness in Australia. The common cancers experienced by the Australia people are lung, liver, and stomach. It has been proven that most men from this community smoke and drink alcohol which predisposes them to liver and lung cancers. Moreover, there is an increase in water pollution in Australia because of increase in population, discharge of untreated industrial products and agricultural runoff with fertilizers and pesticides torivers, lakes, and ocean (Siegel et al., 2017). Therefore, the drinking water has chemical such as microsystems which cannot be removed by heating or disinfecting the water. Contaminated water causes liver cancer which has been witnessed in china. In addition the water has a high arsenic concentration which causes skin cancer and malignant neoplasms. However, there is a paucity of data to show the devastating the effects of cancer among Samoans and other native Australians (Moore et al., 2010). I have observed that Samoans are secretive individuals. They
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