Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths are significantly more likely to die in their native Australians than their non-indigenous counterparts

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Diabetes
Previous research conducted by Howard, Ingram & Liu (2016) indicate that
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience significantly greater morbidity and
mortality compared to the non-indigenous Australians. Averagely, indigenous Australians are
expected to live 12 years less than their non-indigenous Australians counterparts.
Additionally, research also indicate that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are at
increased rate of suffering from chronic, cardiovascular as well as metabolic diseases.
Diabetes as developed by Titmuss et al (2019) is among the leading current health issues
responsible for most of the gap when it comes to life expectancy among Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people today. Titmuss and his colleges created a link between diabetes
and increased rates of hospitalization as well as increased rates of mortality. For example, in
2013 the number of indigenous patients hospitalized as a result of diabetes increased 2.5
times where a large proportion is likely to die compared to the non-indigenous Australians.
Additionally, Titmuss et al (2019) outlined that patients from the indigenous community
suffering from type 2 diabetes are over ten times likely to be hospitalised than patients from
the non-indigenous community. Acknowledging that increased rates of hospitalisations are a
poor indicators of the true occurrence of diabetes‐related impediments within the community,
Titmuss et al (2019) suggested that the encumbrance of disease associated with a diagnosis of
diabetes is greater among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. This paper
aims at exploring diabetes as the current issue today among Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people.
Burden of diabetes among the indigenous Australians
The encumbrance of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is
taking place in the setting of, and is likely due in large part to, the moderately greater

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intensities of societal hindrance (Department of Health, 2015). Additionally it is evident that
burden of diabetes among indigenous people is currently making the greatest contribution to
their mortality rate. For instance, Endocrine disorder which includes diabetes, is responsible
for up to 5% fatal burden among indigenous communities affecting both men and women
from the age of 45 years (Titmuss et al, 2019). According to research conducted by Zimmet
et al (2014), Endocrine disorders also played a role when it comes to contributing to the gap.
Therefore, it is recommended by the ABDS that in order to reduce deaths among indigenous
communities related to Endocrine disorders, it is important to make efforts towards closing
the in regards to fatal burden between indigenous and non-indigenous communities (Zimmet
et al, 2014).
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2014) mentioned that socioeconomic as well as
educational disparities persevere as an inheritance of the past centuries of discrimination state
and domestic guidelines and legislations and continuous structural and institutional
marginalisation of Aboriginal cultural practices and knowledge structures. Factors within
Australia such as forced deprivation of philological, cultural conducts that are based on land
as well as structural forms of indigenous families that has led to intergenerational trauma
which has been occurring in the last centuries and has continued to have adverse impacts on
the current generations as it simultaneously intensify societal risk dynamics among the
indigenous families and populations (Howard, Ingram & Liu, 2016). National data presented
by previous researches such as Zimmet et al (2014) and the Department of Health (2015)
indicate that there are decreased levels when it comes to attaining better education as well as
increased rates of unemployment among the indigenous families and societies compared to
their non-indigenous counterparts. Additionally, there is an increased rate of social risk
factors such as violence among families as well as problems in regards to use of parental
drugs that may prevent indigenous families to access better health care when it comes to