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Running head: HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 1Health and Social DeterminantsReport on Community Profile of Ballarat CityAuthor’s NameInstitutional Affiliation
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 2Report on Community Profile of Ballarat CityCommunity Profile ReportCity of BallaratNovember, 2017PopulationTotal population: 108,762Gender ratio: 44,879 males48,622 femalesAges ■ 0 – 14 18,164■ 15 – 24 14,301■ 25 – 34 11,652■ 35 – 44 12,096■ 45 – 54 12,298■ 55 – 64 10,852■ 65+ 14,139Transport and Access39.6% own private car/s7.8% use public transportDiversity of PopulationBorn in Australia:498,374 Aboriginal/TI : 2016 Asian: 544 Indian: 972 European: 5656Languages spoken at home: English: 88.5 Chinese: 8.6% Other: 2.9%Religion: Catholic: 29.9% % Muslim: 1.4% % Anglican: 11.7% %(Compared to 57%)SafetyWeekly incomePer household: $ 1,098(Vic average: $1,419/week) Note: Wendouree (3355) and Delacombe (3356) were two of the most disadvantaged postcodes in Victoria.Employment8.8 % population employedPart time 34.8 %Fulltime: 61.6%Unemployment rate: 3.6%Type of Employment:
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 35.7% require disability access7.8% households did not have a car(Vic average: 8.4%)Housing36.1% population own their own home 25.7% population rentingAverage dwelling: 6 bed to 4 bathGaps/Needs:Equity issues:Services required:Vulnerable groups:(Vic average 18.4%)Crime rate: 40/1000 (Vic average: 20.5/1000)Types of Crime Assault: 2.9 Theft: 12.7 Sexual: 11.295.2% residents feel safe in community at night(Vic average: 65.0%)ServicesPrivate/Public:Social/Welfare:Protection:Risk factors: Trade: 15.2% Health: 9.5% Retail: 11.1%Professional: 20.9% Other: 1.8%EducationPrivate Schools: 1,280Public Schools: 8,358Tertiary institutions: 2,069Completed year 12: 20.9%(Vic average: 26.1%)Left high school: 14.2%Tertiary Qualifications: 17.3%Trade Qualifications: 13.6%Nursing implications when practicing in THIS community? There is a community health team in the Ballarat and these group aims at delivering extensive range of initiatives and services. The nursing group offers a variety of assistance which includes
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 4screening, raising awareness and risk factors regarding health activities as well as educating the community on healthy lifestyle behaviors. The community nursing practices in the city plays an essential role by providing education programs, responding to community and clients’ needs across all the age groups (Cowie Scott, Fletcher, & Graffeo, 2013). However, health promotions as well as illness preventions are some of the major factors and determinants which one must put into consideration.Social Determinants There is overpowering confirmation that social elements have significant impacts on wellbeing. Youngsters are especially touchy to social determinants, particularly in the early years. Life course models see wellbeing as a formative procedure, the result of various quality and condition associations. Unfavorable early social exposures move toward becoming modified into natural frameworks, setting off chains of hazard that can bring about perpetual ailment in midlife and past. Positive wellbeing advancing impacts can set in movement a more ethical and wellbeing attesting cycle, prompting more ideal wellbeing directions. Mounting a compelling reaction to social determinants will include both direct social arrangement activities intended to dispense with destitution and disparity, and circuitous methodologies concentrated on upsetting pathways between social dangers and weakness results. To be compelling, these roundabout procedures will require out and out a change of existing tyke wellbeing frameworks. Guardians and experts must cooperate starting from the earliest stage, raising open mindfulness about social determinants of wellbeing and executing cross-area put based activities intended to advance positive wellbeing in adolescence (Fuller, & Thollander, 2013, January ). Health Priority AreasThe City of Ballarat has three main health concerns. These are: health eating, prevention of violence and injuries improving on mental health (Anderson, 2013).As well as addressing other chronic diseases such as :Cancer: 0.5% (1:4%)Heart Disease: 6.4% (Vic average: 8.9%)Osteoporosis: 4.4% (17:5%)
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 5Arthritis: 21.9% (15.1%)Type 2 Diabetes: 5.6% (Vic average: 5.2%)Here you can write WHY this is the case for YOUR Community (max 100 words)Healthy Eating32.9% of population were overweight and 18.8% were classed as Obese. (Vic average: 21.9% Overweight, 19.0% Obese)3.0% population meet daily Australian Guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake. (Vic average: 46.8%)13.4% meet daily water intake. (Vic average: 9.8%)Mental Health17.2% population suffers Mental illnesses. Mental illness is also another key and prompt challenge which faces Ballarat city and this is even higher as compared to the towns. (Vic average: 17.5%)23.6% have been diagnosed with Depression
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 6or Anxiety (Vic average: 26.9%)Tobacco The rate of Tobacco smoking in the city is higher compared to other cities such as Victoria and this is evident with percentage of 15.6% and 13.7% respectively. Moreover, the number of males smoking is higher that of females because of the natural laws and gender politics in the country.15.6% population smoke(Vic average: 13.7%)Males: 24.9% (Vic average: 8.7%)Females: 22.7% (Vic average: 5.0%)4.8% population have chronic respiratory Diseases. (Vic average: 4.5%)32.3% population have high blood pressure (Vic average: 23.7%)ReferencesAdams, M. C. (2015). A documentation standard for the maternal and child health nursein Victoria.Anderson, R. (2013). Moving from the city to the country.Australian Journal of Rural Health,21(1), 55-55.
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