Determinants of Health and Wellbeing in the Lives of People with Disabilities

Running Head: DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING 0
Determinants of health and Wellbeing in the lives of people with Disabilities
9/13/2018

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Contents
Introduction.........................................................................................................1
Disabilities in people...........................................................................................2
Women with Disabilities Australia......................................................................3
Impact of disabilities on Health and Wellbeing of Women.................................4
Health issues and Issues at Micro, Meso, and macro level..................................5
Addressing health inequalities.............................................................................7
Conclusion...........................................................................................................7
References...........................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The report brings about the discussion on the assessment of the health and wellbeing of the
individuals or the population as a whole in a region. The analysis of the health related aspects
taken into account with context of the country Australia. There is a comprehensive overview
and detailed analysis of the experiences and inequalities of the health and wellbeing of a
group. The group for the analysis of the disability at three levels, i.e. micro, meso, and macro
levels are the women in Australia. At each different levels of the society, a number of health
issues need to redressed to improve the overall effectiveness of the society and the health and
wellbeing of people. The report thus focuses, on the development or establishment of the
ecological theory or model in context to the population group of the nation. The approach of
the model focuses on both population-level and individual-level determinants of health, and
their interventions. Thus, the report concentrates on analysing the health aspects and the
effect of health issues on the people (women), and their lives (Areán et al., 2015).
Disabilities in people
A disability is the impairment or the deterioration of an individual’s state of wellbeing. The
impairment can be in terms of the cognitive, mental, physical, developmental, memory or
sensory problems in the human body. Considering the meaning and significance of the
developmental disabilities in a person, these are the impairments of the diverse nature
constituting a group of chronic conditions. These conditions caused due to the physical and
mental impairments in an individual usually before adulthood. Developmental disabilities
tend to affect the individual largely (Kail, and Cavanaugh, 2018). Consequently, it affects the
person’s life activities in the longer term from birth or during the later phase of life.
Disabilities in individuals treated as a different concept with the nature of communities, and
the surroundings. The concept of disability includes some terms such as blind, physically
impaired and the handicapped people, it differs according to the culture of the society.
Discussing the terms such as blind or visually impaired explains about the condition of no
vision at all, or limited vision of a person (Kugelmass, 2017).
In modern era of the society, disability in the people has become the major human rights
issue. It is the major issues because people disabled by their society larger than just by their
bodies. There are number of negatives or influences over the person, which leads to

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dissatisfaction in the people towards their lives. People with these disabilities are
disadvantageous as they have poorer health outcomes; also, they have lower educational
achievements. The person with the disabilities tends to have lesser participation in the
economic activities and thus, these people face the situation of poverty than others. Thus,
analysing the negative role of the disabilities in the lives of people, it can be understood that
such people must not be segregated from the society, and must be given due importance
(Mitra et al., 2015).
Ecological theory
An ecological theory or model of health describes about both population as well as individual
level determinants of health in any country. Issues affecting the state of health of individuals
such as affordable housing, access to nutritious food, public safety and the environment are
the social determinants of health. Disabled people are those who are vulnerable to the social
determinants of health, such as social, economic, cultural, ethnic/psychological, and
behavioural factors, influencing health, and risks associated.
Social determinant according to World Health Organisations is defined as the systems in
which people age, grow, live and work along-with the systems put in place to deal with
illness.
The factors or social determinants of health of women in Australia include the social
determinant of sex differences, at micro level of the society. In addition, education,
employment, and the access to healthcare services, at meso levels of the society is one of the
major determinants. At the macro level, social determinant is the economic stability of the
Australia affects women health and improves their disability (Miller and Rasmussen, 2017).
Women with Disabilities Australia
Over a billion people live under poverty disabled in a number of different ways. According to
the estimation, almost 15% of the population found with various kinds of disabilities. Rates
of disabilities are increasing due to the population ageing and it leads to the increased
possibilities of chronic conditions. People have limited access to the healthcare services,
which often results in the unmet healthcare needs of the person. To discuss about the
disabilities in a broader sense, and their impact a section of the society has been analysed.
Women with disabilities in regions of Australia taken under consideration to assess them at