Community Health Nursing Australia Case Study 2022

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Question 1:
According to Hu et al., (2019), equity and access to health care is demarcated as the
accessibility of the health care services to each and every individual of the populations. Access to
the healthcare services whenever required by the individual. However, in the case of Australian
indigenous populations, they do not have appropriate access to the healthcare whenever required,
whenever required either due to poor economic background or due to unavailability of the
general practitioner in the healthcare setting. Equity to the healthcare care services means proper
distribution of the medical care facilities among the populations, but the access of medical care
facilities is far lower than that of the other populations.
Australian Indigenous people have higher mortality and morbidity rate as compared to
the non-indigenous population. According to Hu et al., (2019), the indigenous populations of the
Australia is said to live 12 years less than that of the other populations of Australia and along
with that also suffers from severe and pernicious disease at higher rates. One of the main cause
of the increased death rate is due to the lack of access to the healthcare services. Cardiovascular
disease is considered as one of the leading cause of death among the aboriginals. Apart from that
diabetes and chronic kidney disease also contributes for the death of the aboriginal populations.
According to Hu et al., (2019), the poor health outcomes of the aboriginal populations is
due to the reduced access of the health care practice. The Australian indigenous population have
far lower access of the healthcare as compared to the non-aboriginal populations. Aboriginal
population are more vulnerable to any physical or mental illness as compared to other individual.
It is due to their life style, cultural background and socio-economic factors. The poor health

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outcomes of the indigenous populations can be enhanced by providing proper healthcare
facilities, but is not accessible to them easily.
The Australian indigenous populations usually resides in the remote areas, where
availability of the medical condition is less. Hence, in order to get proper medical service they
have to travel to distant areas. However, due to lower socio-economic state they are not able to
afford expensive treatment and the disease remain untreated leads to death. Apart from the
indigenous individuals who live in rural areas, the indigenous populations of the urban areas also
disadvantaged due to the lack of appropriate medical services. According to the a survey
conducted by Davy et al., (2016), only 30% of the total aboriginal populations resides in the
urban areas and those individuals also do not get appropriate medical services either due to low
socioeconomic background or due to inequality.
The primary medical care facilities are only easily accessible to the non-aboriginal
populations due to which they have high life-expectancy rate and lower death rate.
According to Davy et al., (2016), there are several barriers identified that limits the
access of healthcare among the indigenous populations. Certain barriers identified that hinders
the equity and access to the health care facilities includes, discrimination, racism, cultural
background, language difference, and poor economic background. Low economic background is
one of the leading cause due to which they are not able to access medical care facilities. Illiteracy
and unemployment is the main cause behind their low socio economic background.
These barrier limits the access of the healthcare facilities among the aboriginal
populations, which results to low life expectancy rate and higher death rate among the
individuals and leads to disparity on the equity and the access to the healthcare services.