Diabetes Health Issue in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

DIABETES HEALTH ISSUE
IN ABORIGINAL AND
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER
AUSTRALIANS

Table of contents
■ Introduction
■ Role of health professional in addressing diabetes health issue with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Australians
■ One barrier to health care access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
affected by Diabetes
■ Current strategies addressing Diabetes issue
■ New strategies that can address health issue within Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Australians population
■ Conclusion
■ References

Introduction
■ Diabetes is one of the fastest growing disease in Australian.
■ Most of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer from this disease
(Campbell & et.al. 2018).
■ This presentation will lay emphasis on role of health professions in addressing
diabetes issue, one barrier to health care access for Aboriginal people, Current
strategies for addressing Diabetes issue and new strategy that can be used to
address this issue.

Role of health professional in addressing
diabetes health issue with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Australians
■ Health professionals play a vital role in addressing diabetes within Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people.
■ Health professionals such as nurses and doctors need to initiate and sustain contact with
Aboriginal people within in their locality or at workplace (Hill & et.al. 2017).
■ This will help the health care professionals to understand their needs, barriers faced by
them and will also help them to significantly address all the social and health care issues
faced by them. It will also help the indigenous people to understand the health care issues
that can be faced by them, ways they can cure their diabetes and different ways in which
they can access health care services (West & et.al. 2017).
■ Healthcare professionals can help these people to understand various strategies made by
government for them through which they can handle and cure their diabetes and the can
also get to know different measures that they should follow so that they can control their
diabetes either by bringing changes within their lifestyle or eating habits etc.
■ So it can be said that healthcare professionals such as nurses and doctors can provide
health care interventions related to diabetes to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Australians in a beet manner.