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Health Equity in Aboriginal and Strait Islander Young Males

   

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Health Equity in Aboriginal and StraitIslander Young Males
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TABLE OF CONTENTS1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................12. Brief description of the group.............................................................................................13. Structural determinants in provision of Public Health Services.........................................14. Influence of Culture and beliefs in accessing the public health services...........................25. Evaluating the influence of acceptance and accessibility in public health and services....36. Practical ways in which the public health services could be improved.............................4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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1. INTRODUCTIONAboriginal and Torres Islander people are the first citizen in Australian region. Thetraditional definitions of these people were based on the colour which have been replaced withmodern definition which emphasis on the ancestry and identification. They constitute diverseAboriginal nation which have their own language and tradition (Tsey and et. al., 2011). Theyreside on the offshore islands of Australia and Tasmania. Whereas the Torres Strait people residein the islands of Torres Strait, Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Health equity is a disciplinewhich focuses on studying the causes in the quality of healthcare among diversified population(Adams and et. al., 2012). This report focuses on understanding the health equity in aboriginaland strait islander young males and find out the best strategies to overcome the inequities.2. Brief description of the groupThe Aboriginal and Torres Islander are both described as indigenous. This term identifieshave evolved under law which identifies the relation of aboriginal people will the particularterritory. These people are treated to be the descendants of the country. These people have adiverse social, economic and political characteristics. According to the 2001 census there were548,370 inhabitants. 33% of these people are residing in capital city areas where as 73% of thepopulation lives outside the capital city areas. A whopping 60% of the male population are underthe age of 25. The major areas of residence of Indigenous Australians are New South Wales,Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania (Atkinson, 2016). They believe in passing theircultural heritage from one generation to another. In form of knowledge, arts and rituals. Therecent research conducted proved that 11% of these people use their cultural language at home.3. Structural determinants in provision of Public Health ServicesThe structural determinants are the determinants which takes into account the age, familystructure, education, income and social support. There are some public health services which arespecially designed to provide the public health facilities to the indigenous people which canfurther carried out keeping in mind the structural determinants (Australia’s frightening health-wealth gap, 2017). There can be seen a rise of 15% in the government expenses for theindigenous people. In this case the people under the age group of 25% is the highest. The level ofeducation of these people is 25% in capital cities and 8% in outside area compare to 46% and35% in non- indigenous population. These young males face an unemployment rate of over 20%1
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