Community Health Care Assignment

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Title : Group 1 : A regional town in Western Australia with a focus on the young adult
age range 12 to 18 years
Introduction
Australia is not only unique for its geographic remoteness, but the diverse ethnicities
of Australia. Apart from the various ethnic minorities residing in Australia, the Aboriginal
and the Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of Australia. An estimated of about
798,365 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reside in Australia. These indigenous
group of people are susceptible to higher rates of deaths due to the burden of chronic
diseases, like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, asthma and mental health disorders.
They also face issues related to equal access to health care facilities and racism and
discrimination in every aspects of life.
This paper will provide a community assessment of the regional town Wyndham, that
houses a community of several aboriginals. The report will provided an epidemiological base
of the target population along with its social determinants of health that will affect the chosen
community.
Chosen town: Wyndham, which the most oldest and northern most town of Kimberley
region present in Western Australia.
Chosen target group: aboriginal young adults within the age range 12-18 years.
Demographics
The city of Wyndham is located on the northern most town of the Kimberly region
situated in Western Australia. The area covers 542 square kilometres having a population
density of about 4.21 person per hectare. The traditional owners of the Wyndham region are
the Aboriginals who lived there for about 40,000 years (Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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2016). The three main aboriginal communities that lived in this area included Marpeang
bulluk, Kurung jang balluk, Yalukit William. In 2016, the Wyndham region had the
largest Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander community region with a total young
population of about 1789, which consisted of 53.7% of the total population in Wyndham
(ABS, 2016). There are 52.4% male and 47.6 % female. The growth in the number of the
young Aboriginal people in the Wyndham region is about 1.5 times faster in comparison to
the other States. In the 2016, census, it has been stated that there were 49.9 % male and
50.1% of female population. The median age of the people residing in the Wyndham region
is about 22 years. The Wyndham Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander community has the
largest proportion of individuals under the age of 15 and smaller proportion of people above
the age of 60 years (Wyndham City.gov, 2018). About 5.5% of the population are between
the age ranges 15-19 years. Less than half of the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander
population in Wyndham have Christian faith (ABS, 2016). There are about 785 aboriginal
households in Wyndham. However, it has been found that majority of the aboriginal people
residing in this region have secular beliefs, some spiritual beliefs, but no religion. A larger
proportion of the Aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders are single parent family
households. In terms of the attainment of education, the rate of 12 standards completion vary
starkly among the aboriginals within the age range 12-18 (ABS, 2018). In the year 2016,
about the 34 % of the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander people over 15 years of age
have completed their education. About 46.6% have attended the educational institution, of
which 33.3 % attending primary school and 22.1 % attending a secondary school (ABS,
2016). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Wyndham within this age range have
experienced lower educational attainment than the Aboriginals residing in the Victorian
region and the greater area of Melbourne. According to the Census data of 2011, most of the
Wyndham Aboriginal residents are the Clerical and the workers for administrative work

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(15%) and the Technicians the Trade Workers (12.8%) have been found to be the largest
occupational type among the aboriginal people (Wyndham City.gov, 2018). The median
weekly personal income for the ATSI people was $509 and the median weekly household
income had been $1,483 (ABS, 2016). The percentage of homelessness among the
aboriginals within the age range 12-18 have risen so far. A lower proportion of the
aboriginals stays their own home in comparison to the non-aboriginal residents. About 10 %
of the aboriginal population had their owned outright at Wyndham.
Wyndham population 12 to 25 year olds, 2016
Source: (ABS,2016)
Health issues
The environment and the amenity plays an important role in the well-being of the
community. The demographic factors of social isolation and the socio-economic
disadvantage is another main cause for the disease of the disease burden among the
Aboriginal population. The overall good physiological condition and wellbeing is critical to
evade a number of diseases that are preventable. The current physical health and the activity
data have shown that the adolescents (12-18) years are not spending enough time on doing
physical activities. The rates of obesity and the diabetes among the young people are much