Community Health Choice: || Assignment

Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH
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INTRODUCTION
The diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, the hypertension, coronary
artery disease, cerebrovascular accidents have affected the public health of Australia in a very
critical manner and even with the advent of new biomedical technologies and ,medical and
clinical service delivery transformational changes – there is still a lack in the policy making
addressing the actual needs of the population to the wrong and inappropriate way of clinical
and social service delivery to the clients or the general public as a who in the public health
scenario (Middleton, Moxham & Parrish, 2018). It is highly important and also very critical
to understand that the indigenous community living in the locals of Australia has been
affected more so by these diseases that are mentioned above than the urban populations and
these gaps in the epidemiological parameters can be attributed to the factors which are also
widely known as the social determinants of health (Keel et al., 2017). It is highly vital that
the various factors that are involved in the increasing of prevalence of clinical and social
conditions of aboriginal and the Torres strait islander people living in the community areas of
Australia – are addressed properly by the policies and the clinical as well as the health care
plus the social care delivery teams in a very imperative manner (Lo et al., 2018). The social
determinants of health are lack of employability and the lack of financial income, low
socioeconomic status, low level of education and sociopolitical stability of these indigenous
communities in Australia, low level of knowledge and awareness about the quality of health
and the quality of life as well as about the prevention and management of mental and physical
diseases, poor quality of life, poor living condition, lack of nutrition make them more prone
to the public health diseases as well as to the diseases such as depression and psychosocial
disorders as well (Paul et al., 2017). About 79.2 per cent of aboriginal people have at least
some involvement with diabetes mellitus as compared to non-Aboriginal who has 39.2%
involvement (Hussain et al., 2018). Only 38 per cent of the community members showed a

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readiness to the treatment (Macniven et al., 2018). The policies have to be formulated
correctly in accordance with needs of the aboriginal community and the staffs have to be
trained properly in order to deliver a proper community care. Community participation is a
very important aspect of the care process. In this essay, diabetes mellitus has been taken as
the disease to be studied in the aboriginal community framework of Australia (Ball et al.,
2016).
THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY BASED INTERACTION
Diabetes mellitus is a common problem in the aboriginal community of Australia and
over the years, the causation rates and the prevalence rates of diabetes has been increasing
very much and there is a strong relation of the Australian population with diabetes mellitus
and it is highly important that lack of nutrition, poor quality of life and increased level of
psychosocial addictions leading to the causations of diabetes mellitus amongst the indigenous
Australians has been increasing and it is highly vital that the policies pertaining to health and
also to social strengthening of the aboriginal culture is developed properly by the health care
team including the public health practioners in order to deliver a more community centered
care and client centered care as well (Schmidt, Campbell & McDermott, 2016). Informing,
consulting, participating and finally by empowering the community population are the four
different stages in the community involvement for a community based interaction pertaining
to health and social management. Before beginning the management and the community
interaction process, it is highly important that the needs assessment of the aboriginal
community is done and performed properly in order to understand what are the proper areas
and the proper gaps that are to be addressed by the government level policy makers, the
health and the social workers working towards the management and prevention of diabetes
mellitus amongst the men, women, children and young, middle and old aged people in the
aboriginal community framework (Khan, Uddin & Srinivasan, 2018). It is highly vital that