Closing the Gap: A Campaign for Health Equality

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Introduction
As a nurse based at a hospital in Brisbane, have come across this Matt who is an inpatient
and he is an Aboriginal and Torres man. Currently Matt is waiting for transfer to the discharge
lounge. After he is discharged, Matt will continue with his care at her mother’s home in Kirwan,
Townsville. Now during one of her mother’s visit to the hospital, through the help of Closing the
Gap funding, Matt’s mother was able to travel from Townsville and Brisbane and through that
money, she was able to fund her food and accommodation in a local hotel. This was a special
treatment to her. Now in this paper, we are going to look at what Close the Gap is as well as the
Closing the Gap.
The campaign on Close the Gap is aimed at closing the gap on the healthiness and the
gap on health life expectancy amid the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and the
available non-indigenous Australians that are in the same age group. The campaign building is
based on the proof that shows some considerable improvements in the status of Torres Strait
Islander and Aboriginal health which can be achieved by the year 2030. This is the reason the
Australia’s peak indigenous and non-indigenous bodies of health, the organizations on civil
rights; the NGOs are working jointly with a goal of achieving fairness in wellbeing and life
expectancy in general for the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Dover &
Goodman, 2018).
Discussion
Close the gap is a campaign on social justice that it’s launching took place in 2007
(Duffy, 2018). The main reason for creating this campaign was to serve as a response to social
justice report in the year 2005. The campaigns operation is by the organization of human rights

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and non-governmental organizations, Torres Strait Islander and Australia’s peak Aboriginal and
non-Indigenous health organization coalition. Close the Gap campaign has a committee that runs
it and at times Dr. Jackie Huggins is the chairperson, the co-chair is the National Congress of
Australia’s First Peoples, and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Organization (NACCHO) CEO, Ms. Patricia Turner. The board that steers Close the Gap has a
number of organizations as well as expert advisers. Each and every year, there are events for
individuals and organizations across Australia hosted on Close the Gap National Day. The
signing of pledges by people requesting for Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal health equality
within a generation also happens on this day (Gisonda, O’Neill, Roskam, Begg, Goldsworthy,
Threat, & Steward, 2018).
Closing the Gap
Closing the Gap, in contrast, refers to a plan used by the administration that looks to
minimize the drawback amid Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal people with respect to access
of early childhood education, life expectancy, and death of children, education achievement, and
outcomes of payment. Closing the Gap is an official obligation made by all the governments of
Australia in order to attain the health equality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander within a
period of twenty-five years. Closing the growth of the Gap was in reaction to the report on social
justice call in 2005 as well as the campaign on social justice by Close the Gap. An agreement
between Torres Strait Islander and the Australian Governments was achieved in the year 2008
with the aim of working together in order to realize fairness in wellbeing standing and life
expectation amid Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal people and non-indigenous Australians