Cultural and Social Diversity in Health Care

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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HEALTH CARE
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Case study one
Culture is a lifestyle of a gathering of individuals - the practices, values beliefs and images
that they acknowledge, by and large without pondering them, and are transferred from
generation to generation through imitation and communication.
The present model of human healthcare services has difficulties which are persistent with
social competency, and sex, racial, and ethnic variations. Wellbeing is controlled by
numerous components outside the setting of traditional health care. These social determinants
of wellbeing incorporate, yet are not restricted to, access to healthy foods, education and
housing quality. It has been recommended that ethnic and racial minorities have negative
social determinants of health that adds to their absence of access to medicinal services.
The social determinants of wellbeing are the conditions where individuals are conceived,
develop, live, age and work. These conditions are molded by the circulation of cash,
resources, money at local, national and international levels. The avoidable and unfair
imbalances in status of health( health inequalities) seen within the Irish Australians mostly
come about due to social determinants of health.
Irish Australians is comprised of an ethnic gathering of Australian natives of Irish decent,
which incorporate migrants from and relatives whose family line begins from Ireland Island
(Sullivan & Sullivan 2016). They arrived in Australia from the late eighteenth century as
culprits however most were war detainees, chiefly the individuals who battled in the 1798
Irish independence rebellion and pioneers who couldn't discover a real existence during the
Irish starvation and the cruel years in Ireland a short time later (James 2017).

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Educational settings represent one of the key Irish Australians’ social determinants of
health. Over the most recent twenty years, a scope of projects has been created in the
educational settings, especially elementary schools and preschool (Sharma 2016). They are
conceivably quite effective in tending to health disparities since they are able to reach a huge
population, yet just in the event that they address social determinants. The primary basic
procedures include; giving general free food, changing educational plans to incorporate
sustenance and advancement of health and setting up clear referral pathways for network
based help administrations. Health equity in learning institutions has especially been tended
to by nutrition programmes. Meal programmes and school breakfast have been effective for
children from indigenous foundations and low-financial backgrounds in improving physical
and psychological wellness (Bastable 2016).
Social exclusion- an individual's incorporation in the public arena and power over their
destiny are each significant for wellbeing and social improvement. Having the opportunity to
take part in social, economic, cultural and political connections has been of intrinsic value to
the Irish Australians (Madanipour 2015). However, social exclusion has also resulted from
joblessness, stigmatisation and separation. Neediness and social avoidance has likewise led to
increment of the dangers of separation and disease. Individuals who have as of late left or still
live in institutions, for example, penitentiaries and mental homes are especially vulnerable.
The more time individuals get to spend in distraught conditions, the more certain they are to
experience the ill effects of a scope of medical issues.
Lifestyle factors e.g. addiction, stress and food- way of life issues that can lead to
deterioration in heath, for example, type of food, tobacco and liquor use are frequently
considered to be, and reacted to, as individual factors that ought to be tended to through
change of individual behaviour. A decent diet is key to wellbeing and prosperity (Conlon &

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Bird 2015). Economic and social conditions bring about a social slope in eating routine
quality that adds to wellbeing imbalances. Nourishment instability isn't commonly viewed as
an issue for the Irish Australians, anyway levels of sustenance frailty have been found to
affect between five to ten percent of the population. Excess consumption adds to
cardiovascular sickness, malignant growth, diabetes, degenerative eye ailments, dental caries
and obesity. The principle distinction between social classes is the wellspring of the
supplements, with poor socioeconomics tending to substitute less expensive prepared
nourishment for fresh food. Individuals on low wages, for example, youthful families, the
older and jobless are unable to eat good food therefore most in danger (Roman et al 2015).
The Irish Australians have been victims to some health related risk factors. These risk
factors include;
Poor nutrition- poor nourishment has hindered the day to day wellbeing and prosperity of
some individuals in this ethnic group and decreased their capacity to lead an active and
enjoyable life. For the time being, poor nourishment has add to tiredness and stress and has
also added to the danger of building up certain diseases and other medical issues.
Tobacco smoking- Smoking results to lung illness by little air sacs and airways damage.
Lung ailments brought about by smoking incorporate COPD, which incorporates chronic
bronchitis and emphysema. Smoking cigarettes causes most instances of lung malignancy.
Excess alcohol consumption- over drinking puts you in danger for certain malignancies,
for example, disease of the mouth, throat, oesophagus, bosom and liver. It can influence the
immune system to become more vulnerable by increasing susceptibility.
Recommendations and strategies put in place to counter the above discussed health risk
factors are;