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Running head: DETERMINANTS OF INDEGENOUS HEALTHDETERMINANTS OF INDEGENOUS HEALTHName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
1DETERMINANTS OF INDEGENOUS HEALTHIntroductionThere exists a disparity in health among the Indigenous non-Indigenous Australianswhich has been under constant highlight by the Australian media. The mass media campaignspreviously were majorly focused on the raising awareness among the people while overlookingthe negative social determinants of health. However, recent findings show that there are severalsocial determinants that have lead to the generation of health inequality among the Australianaboriginals like of proper hygiene, racism, discrimination and abundance of infectious diseases.Indigenous health outcomes are influenced by a broad range of social determinants includinghousing, employment, incarceration, racism, education and discrimination, and can be attributedto the impact of colonization (Taylor & Guerin, 2014). This report will analyze four significantmedia articles that are focused on housing and living conditions in remote Indigenouscommunities of Australia. The report will also try to evaluate how these factors are proving to bean important social determinant among the indigenous people. The report sheds light over racism, lack of proper sanitation, overcrowding and spreadingof contagious disease and prevalence of high smoking rates and their negative effects on theliving condition of the indigenous people in Australia and thus generating health inequalities. Media: Article OneA new policy statement on racism in the health systemhas been released by the AustralianIndigenous Doctors Association (Australia, 2016)https://ajp.com.au/news/racism-impacts-health-care/
2DETERMINANTS OF INDEGENOUS HEALTHKey IssuesThis news article focuses over the new policy that has been frame by the AustralianIndigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) upon the impact of racism in health care system on theAustralian aboriginals. As per the statement of the AIDA, racism is still prevalent in the healthframework of the Australian subcontinent which is creating a steep inequality in the Australianhealth care system. However, they have agreed that progress has been undertaken in order tocurb the racism impact on health but still their lies certain indifference in the behavior and theattitude of the people. There is a firm existence of systemic racism among the Australian socio-economic domain and this lead to increase in stress level followed by poor mental and physicalhealth outcome. Past history of racism has generated a taboo among the Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islander people in Australia. Continuous encounter of racism has hit hard their selfesteemed and now they fear of visiting the health care sectors even during emergency. Thearticle also clearly states that racism is the principal social determinant in the sector of health.The policy drafted by the AIDA uplifts an urgent need to identification of racism as a strongbarrier against culturally safe health care system. They also stated that the must exist a zerotolerance in the grounds of racism across all the health care sectors in Australia. They alsoproposed the active preaching of culturally safe health care system for providing promisinghealth backup to the Australian aboriginal via eliminating racism and promotion of universalhealth care access to all the indigenous people in Australia. Links of Models and approachesThe article here highlights a broad range of health inequality among the Australianaboriginal that are arising out of racism. In the Australian subcontinent, the root cause behind theextreme health disadvantage and socio-economic imbalance among the Australian aboriginal is
3DETERMINANTS OF INDEGENOUS HEALTHracism. However, in the majority of the cases, poor health has been considered as an outcome ofthe locational disadvantage, lack of proper financial backup and lack of proper health schemes orinvestment in health care plan and other cultural differences. However, racism in the health caresectors has results in poor mental yet physical health condition, bed-delays, and increases inhypertension, blood pressure and smoking (Larson, Gillies, Howard & Coffin, 2007). Improvedhealth care model and initiatives in eliminating the inequalities in healthcare sectors are notenough to curb the affect of racism in health as this will not change the behaviour of the non-aboriginal people towards the aboriginal people. Uprooting racism from the grass root level isthe only away out to overcome this situation. Contribution to current debateThis article raises some interesting points over impact of racism on the health ofindigenous people in Australia and how the AIDA is responding to overcome this scenario.However, the article does not take a critical stance and provides no concrete evidence regardinghow the Australian government is reacting to this racism impact on the aboriginal people. Theauthor could have also elaborated characteristic of racism which is generating health inequalitieslike discrimination in physical appearance, hair colour, skin colour, build or voice. Author alsofailed to highlight other impact of racism apart from mental health like according to the Wheel ofDiscrimination, as described by McConnochie et al., in the year of 1988, institutional racismresults in poor level of child birth, neonatal deformity and imbalance in the health of the mother(Hampton & Maree, 2013). Personal reflectionAs per my understanding, this article is a is significant in the grounds of racism andhealth inequalities in Australia. It gives a detailed insight about the steps or the policies that are
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