Health Inequality Among Different Population Groups

Running head: HEALTH INEQUALITY AMONG DIFFERENT POPULATION GROUPS
HEALTH INEQUALITY AMONG DIFFERENT POPULATION GROUPS
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1HEALTH INEQUALITY AMONG DIFFERENT POPULATION GROUPS
Why do some Australian population groups have poorer health outcomes?
Socio economic factors such as income, social hierarchy and education and health are
intertwined factors and relationship between them has been investigated by the academics for
many centuries (Newman et al., 2015). Presently, significant amount of literature is available
in support of the fact that the socio economic factors play major role in the inequalities of
health among different population groups (Marmot, 2017). Health of a particular community
influenced heavily by various social structures such as income, employment, and education.
These social structures are widely known as social determinants of health (Newman et al.,
2015).
Recent studies have shown that the inequality is present among the different group of
Australian population. It has been well published and well evident fact is the aboriginal
individuals in Australia have poorer health and have higher rate of risk and illness in
comparison with the non- aboriginal individuals in Australia (Markwick et al., 2014). It has
also been reported that aboriginal Australians are far more likely to experience disease like
chronic kidney disease, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disease, mental health problems,
and diabetes in comparison with the non- aboriginal Australians (Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare, 2019). In addition to that, the occurrence rate for rheumatic heart disease
is also higher among the aboriginal Australian. As mentioned above, various determinants of
health are responsible for this inequality of health among the aboriginal Australian and they
are income, education, life style behaviour, and prevalence of chronic disease (Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019.
It is a well- established fact that the education plays an important role in the quality of
health conditions in any particular group. Community with lower education level tends to
have poorer health quality. In 2014 – 2015, only 62 per cent of indigenous students finished