Impact of Poor Diet on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This report discusses the impact of poor diet on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. It covers topics such as current statistics, the history of colonization, social determinants of health, and cultural implications. The report highlights the need for improved nutrition education and access to healthy food for these communities.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Describe your chosen topic and how it affects one’s health and the health of the Community?3
2. Use current statistics (less than 5 years old) to illustrate the burden of this topic / issue for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander..........................................................................................4
Peoples compared with non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People................................4
3. Describe how the history of colonisation has impacted on the development of this topic /
issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait.........................................................................................4
Islander Peoples..........................................................................................................................4
4. Identify and discuss the impact of TWO (2) social determinants of health on the
development and progression of this topic / issue......................................................................4
5. Discuss the cultural implications and obstacles to addressing this topic / issue for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples............................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individual are seen suffering from worst diet related
issues. These are groups present within Australia and poor nutrition is the issue faced by these
people and this contributes to malnutrition, overweight, obesity, cardiovascular disease, tooth
decay and diabetes. The following report discusses about various risk factors for these people
and how they are affecting livelihood of these people.
Describe your chosen topic and how it affects one’s health and the health of the Community?
The chosen topic for this research is diet of aboriginal and Torres people of Australia.
Aboriginal individuals of Australia are indigenous people of Austalian mainland. According to
the statistics, it is concluded that Australians and Torres people are much less healthy than other
Australians. There is complex cause for poor dietary intake within Torres and Aboriginal
individuals. It is concluded that systematic review for managing dietary intake of these people is
limited to the effectiveness of nutrition education program (Treloar. and et.al., 2016). Poor
nutrition is known as a major factor which contributes to obesity and overweight among
individuals. These also cause high blood pressure, cholesterol problem, less vegetable and fruit
intake, etc.
There are several factors that affect poor diet and nutrition. There are several economic, socio-
economic and environmental factors which leads to poor diet and nutrition. It is analysed that 6%
of individuals within aboriginal and Torres communities have the functioning of hardware which
requires preparation, storage and cooking of food. There are few contributions for these people in
order to enhance their lives. Some of these are mentioned below -
 Water is provided to them for drinking, washing, safe sewage, etc.
 Proper disposal of garbage is also provided
 Nutritional programs are given in order to make them understand the need of balanced
diet.
It is analysed from some statistics that two third Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander live in
remote areas. These face minimised variety and quality of nutrition food. There are few factors
which contribute to high cost of foods in rural and remote areas. These include increased freight
costs, higher store overheads, greater wastage of food stock store management practices and the
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reduced economies of scale for purchasing and retailing in small remote communities. There are
several initiatives taken by government for providing support to these people.
2. Use current statistics (less than 5 years old) to illustrate the burden of this topic / issue for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Indigenous people of Australia facing problem of unexpectable health disparities and food
insecurity. These people are often facing chronic diseases and obesity. There are several policy
level actions prepared for eliminating malnutrition within Different Form. there are no effective
evidence of food and nutrition policies for indigenous people and they are facing a lot of
problems related to health. Aboriginal and Taurus Strait Islander people of Australia have not
achieved food security. According to the statistics, it is concluded that aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people have to depend upon on knowledge of local plants and animals. When
there are European settlers, various problems arise because of insufficient diet and nutritional
problems. There are several ways for these people to manage phone security by goodnight level
of educational attainment, housing costs, house ownership and degree of food security. There are
various factors which have contributed 4 high food prices which includes freight charges, store
management practices, lower level of income and percentage of income spent on food is
increased. In remote areas of Australia, variety and quality of nutritious food are worse and
people living in these areas do not have sufficient knowledge about importance of nutritional
food. Normal people of Australia living in urban areas have more access to awareness about
importance of eating healthy diet and nutritional food.
3. Describe how the history of colonisation has impacted on the development of this topic / issue
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Aboriginal people of Australia were known as pre agriculturist Hunters who had been
adapting extraordinarily life within variety of habitats. There were negative effects of
colonization an app or regional society. The first effect of this is that aborigines are known as
unhealthiest subgroup of Australian Society. Australian AB origin steak contemporary diets
which are rich in energy and contains high amount of salt, carbohydrates, fats. But they are poor
in fiber and some nutrients. This increases the rate of various cardiovascular diseases and major
impact is upon adolescence and children. Health promotions and disease prevention programs
are organized for this people for making them health sensitive and secure. According to the
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Australian statistics, it is concluded that there were more than 25 lack app originals in Australia
before European colonization. These people have well adapted for living in various tropical
forests, coastal areas and riverine areas. It is tool appreciate these before European contact.
Permanent European colonization of Australia was done by two centuries. There was no
education, good income, housing and hygiene standards, prevention of diseases ,etc.
4. Identify and discuss the impact of TWO (2) social determinants of health on the development
and progression of this topic / issue
The social determinants of health include personal, social, economic and environmental factors
which affect end of an individual. These consist of government policies, individual behavior,
physical activity, etc. It can also be differentiated on the basis of biological and genetic factors
that is age, inherited conditions, etc (Liberman, 2017). There is need of improving health of
indigenous people within Australia as it is a major challenge for government. There is a huge gap
between indigenous and non indigenous Australians. According to social determinants tillery, it
is concluded that health and equality add determined by various interconnected factors. There are
important determinants of indigenous health inequality within Australia that consists of equal
access to Primary Health care. There are indigenous health policy provided 2 Australian people
and according to this improvement of health status can be enhanced. There is another factor
which is young age and it affects app origonal and Torres Strait Islander population. There is
scope for manageing issues associated children and adolescents. There is increase in absolute
terms of size. They think that youth population requiers significant increase in programs and
services for keeping a proper pace of demand and maintain status. There is need to manage
various approaches of health. These include following
 Emphasize accountability of government: it is very important for social economic
outcomes to manage different sectors of civil society. There are some legal obligations
analyzed for managing human right system.
 Establishment of obligations of government which are needed for respecting, protecting
and fulfilling the right to health. This consists of Managing health policy and program
interventions so that services are accessible, appropriate, available and of sufficient
quality.
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Links between and social economic: indigenous people within Australia are experiencing social
economic disadvantages. According to this statistics of 2001 census there was Rate for
indigenous people and it was 20% higher than the local Australians.
Linkage between perception of control and chronic stress: in context of national app or Regional
Health strategy, health status is associated with control over physical environment. This is not a
factor of doctors provision and absence of disease.
5. Discuss the cultural implications and obstacles to addressing this topic / issue for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
There are health care in equity within aboriginal Australians and Torris Strait Islanders. It is
analyzed from the year 2011 that Australian government is increasing the awareness of proper
nutrition and diet to people so that they can live uh healthy life. There is requirement of strong
and efficient health care so that it is possible to provide support to people. There are some
cultural barriers Which limits and it consists of inappropriate outcomes of health care services
among aboriginal Australians. Language is the most important component of culture. When there
is ineffective communication then it can lead to failure within health care outcome. There is
development of sophisticated healthcare in Australia but there is need to increase the
communication and minimizing the problems of inappropriate interventions and misdiagnosis
(Ferguson and et.al., 2017). It is an important issue for the health care professionals to maintain
cultural stereotypes among about regional Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. There are
some problems like law staff motivation, minimised staff confidence and inefficiency of
analyzing role and responsibility can affect the way to reach Objectives.
Gibbs reflective cycle
According to the Gibbs, reflective cycle, there are several stages of managing own experience
and skill while completing any project. There is need to manage personal and professional
development and growth for attaining success. It is effective management of an individual
personality that how he is able to manage the way of completing any task or activity.
 Description - The project is about problems faced by Australian aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people due to intake of Imbalance diet.
 Feelings - There were several times in this project where there is need of motivating
myself and keep searching for information available about Australian Aboriginal people.
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 Evaluation - It is evaluated from the project that there are several statistics used for
justifying problem of diet among Aboriginal people. These people are facing issues like
racism, colonialism and operation but has resulted in ineffective development and growth
of aboriginal Individuals.
 analysis – There is a plan managed for conducting a proper research on aboriginal
people. There is discussion about health issues and barriers of communication.
 conclusion - After completing the research work, I have evaluated various cultural
factors related to the aboriginal Australians and how they can be overcome in order to
improve the lifestyle and growth of these people.
 Action plan - Project is accomplished and there are several steps followed for completing
the research and knowing more about aboriginal individuals who are facing problem of
nutritional diets.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ferguson, M. and et.al., 2017. Traditional food availability and consumption in remote
Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Australia. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Public Health. 41(3). pp.294-298.
Liberman, K., 2017. Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985):
An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People. Routledge.
Treloar, C. and et.al., 2016. Care and treatment of hepatitis C among Aboriginal people in New
South Wales, Australia: implications for the implementation of new treatments. Ethnicity
& health. 21(1). pp.39-57.
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