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Impact of Factors Affecting The Health And Wellbeing Of Aboriginal Or Torres Strait Islander Background

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Determinants Of Health Factors Affecting The Health And Well being Of A Person Of Aboriginal Or Torres Strait Islander Background TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Impact of racism and discrimination on the health and well being of people 1 Impact of health behaviours and lifestyle on the health and well being of people2 Impact of education on the health and well being of people 3 Impact of employment and income status on the health and well being of people4 CONCLUSION 5 REFERENCES 6 INTRODUCTION Health factors are considered

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Impact of racism and discrimination on the health and well being of people........................1Impact of health behaviours and lifestyle on the health and well being of people................2Impact of education on the health and well being of people..................................................3Impact of employment and income status on the health and well being of people................4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTIONHealth factors are considered as those factors that has an impact on the health measures.On an overall basis, health factors can be classified in four sub types and these include clinical,social, health and economical. Determinants of health factors can be classified as the systems andstructures that can be termed responsible for any inequity associated with health. The report isabout discussing some determinants of health factors and its influence on an individual's healthwho belongs to aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background(Anthony, Weston and Vallen,2018). The report will be include the analysis and understanding of four determinants of healthfactors that are healthy behaviour, racism, education and employment. Impact of racism and discrimination on the health and well being of peopleFor the people having aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background, there have beensome factors that some have impact on their lifestyle as well as health. There are three types ofracial discrimination that has an impact on the individual's physical and mental behaviour. Theseincludes race based, direct and the indirect (Waters, 2017). In aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanderbackground area, it has been observed that more people and children are becoming the victim ofdirect racism because the people in these areas are having an unequal distribution of all the roles,power etc. People from other areas do not respect these people and do not involve them in anymajor responsibilities or tasks. This has affected majority of the people in aboriginal or TorresStrait Islander background. It has been observed that the people from aboriginal or Torres StraitIslander background have to face racism by some communities because of which their mentalcondition has been affected as well(Badland, Foster and Giles-Corti, 2017). Specially, in case ofchildren, it has affected their mental stability to a huge extent. It has further resulted ininfluencing their physical and emotional behaviour as well to a huge extent. Although there havebeen various government policies and legislations that focuses on excluding the racism anddiscrimination from these areas. As per the Equal opportunity Act 2010, it is being considered that there should be no sortof discrimination or racism with anyone, whether it is on the basis of colour, race, gender etc. Itis not allowed at all and the guilty ones may have to pay huge penalties and the punishment mayalso lead to the imprisonment of the person (Perales, 2014). It is because it focuses onmaintaining equality among all. It should be stopped because it affects the mental health of thepeople living in aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background and that can further cause1
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