Health Issues and Social Determinants of Health in International Teenage Students in Australia

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Demographic information......................................................................................................................2
Health issues in Teenage International students....................................................................................6
Mental health issues..........................................................................................................................7
Social determinants of health (SDoH)...................................................................................................8
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The mobility of the student for studies across borders has been increased in recent
years. Australia becomes the most popular destination for the student from all around the
world. The number of global students increasing continuously each year compared to other
nations. The youth mobilize in Australia from other countries like Vietnam, Republic of
Korea, Malaysia, Brazil, Indonesia, Nepal, India, and China to gain a top quality education.
In the 2011 census, the total population of migrants in Australia was 5.3 million and it is
higher than various counties such as New Zealand, USA and UK (Choudaha, & Chang,
2012). Perth has become the important site for migrants in Australia and it is ranked 7th most
liveable city in 2017 (Murdoch Institute of technology, 2017). From 2001 to 2011 the total
number of migrants living particularly in Perth increased by 51 % (Australia Bureau of
statistics, 2014). Teenage students are the one who left their home country for education; they
are basically the school and college students who take admission in universities for graduate
courses or in schools. In this report, the demographic information of the international teenage
student in Perth & Western Australia, the health issues to that population or community,
social determinants of health will be discussed.
Demographic information
In 2016 Australia has the maximum number of student of international education
seekers in the world and they slip down to the third rank after the US and Britain in the year
2017. Nearly 50 million international students from around 200 nations studied in Australia
in the year 2015. In the first seven months of 2017, nearly 685,000 international students
staggered to study in Australia (Studies in Australia, 2018). According to the Australian
Bureau of statistics, the international students pays high fee in Australian colleges. Nearly

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A$16.8 were collected from international student in 2017, this was only A$4.4 billion before
this years but thanks for the changes in the methodology that took interviews of the students
in the airport lounges which helped to capture their spending pattern and visits from various
countries. These data show that Australia is the strong global competitor in education. The
number of the Chinese student in Australia continuously increasing each year, nearly 137000
was reported in 2015. The Chinese student population contributed nearly 27.3 percent of all
the international students in Australia. After China India contribute 10.8 percent of students
(Smith, & Khawaja, 2011).
It has been also found that the international education helped to get $ 20 billion to the
Australia economy in the year 2015. The student enrolments are heavily concentrated in the
big cities of Australia. According to the federal government data in 2015, the Ballard based
federation universities get the highest number of students enrolments, however, nearly all of
them studied in high rise glass colleges in the Melbourne CBD. There are other six
universities with the high number of enrolments more than 25 %. Only 10 percent of the
students went for the regional areas, while cities like Melbourne and Sydney attracted nearly
65 % of all the international education seekers. After the federation university, Australia
Bond College secured the second rank of having the highest number of foreigner students
with 41.3 %; the University of Melbourne secured the third rank with 31.2 % student
enrolments. In the first few months of 2017 committee for Perth published as data report and
stated that Western Australia (WA) was failed to attract students compare to other cities of
Australia and it faced a decline in student's admissions over the past fifteen years. However
the WA has cost and lifestyle advantages compare to other cities in Australia but yet it had
less number of enrolments (Ryan, 2011). The reason for this lack of interest in WA is not
clear. Chines students are specifically not interested in studying in Perth and nearby areas
(He, Lopez, & Leigh, 2012).