Healthcare Challenges for Aboriginal Peoples

This presentation discusses the healthcare challenges faced by Aboriginal peoples in Australia. It covers topics such as access to healthcare in rural communities, inadequate health centers in rural areas, transportation barriers, and the lack of health workforce supply and distribution. The presentation also explores the role of public health care in improving health, strategies for improving the health of the population, demands for healthcare reforms, and bridging the gap in healthcare facilities. Additionally, it addresses issues in the medical research sector, social determinants of health and local government, health insurances adopted by the government, and provides references for further reading.

HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES
FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLES

HEALTH ISSUES FACED BY
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
 The Indigenous population of Australia facing
problems due to various disease patterns
such as mental health issues, diabetes,
chronic kidney, cardiovascular and
respiratory diseases .
 The Australian healthcare system is
overburdened by the growth of chronic
illness among the Indigenous .
 The increasing cost of efficient,
comprehensive and transparent health
technology (Tilahun, 2018).

ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE IN
RURAL COMMUNITIES
 The aboriginal peoples in rural regions did
not get access to healthcare facilities for
their overall mental, physical and social
health development.
 Rural people are facing troubles for
detection, diagnosis, and prevention of
diseases.
 The rural people need access to healthcare
for improving the quality of life and life
expectancy rate (Franckhauser, 2013).

INADEQUATE HEALTH CENTERS IN
RURAL AREAS
 The rural areas do not have sufficient health
care centers for treating ill persons.
 The healthcare centers in the rural areas do
not have adequate health staffs and
therefore the rural flock has to move to
urban health care units in search of better
medical facilities (Doolan, Najman and
Cherney, 2012).
 The shortage of health workforce puts
tremendous pressure on the existing health
workforce.

TRANSPORTATION BARRIER IN
AVAILING THE HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
 The aboriginal people do not get access to
health care facilities due to the lack of
adequate transport facilities.
 The availability of transport need to be
improved between the district hospital and
rural health centers and between the central
hospital and district hospital.
 Affordable transport system should be made
available to deal with the delay in accessing
the health care facility.

LACK OF HEALTH WORKFORCE
SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION
 The health staffs in health care units are
insufficient in number to take care of ailing
patients.
 The nurses working in health care units are
remarkably low to take care of the aging
population of Australia (Juth, 2013).
 Due to lack of workforce in the health sector
the nurses and other health staffs are always
engaged and this, in turn, reduces the quality
of services rendered to the patients by them.

CHALLENGES IN HEALTH CARE
FACILITIES
 Most of the doctors and health care staffs are
non-indigenous and the indigenous people
face language problem in communicating
with them.
 The indigenous people also face a cultural
difference with the non-indigenous health
workforce.
 The indigenous people do not have faith in
the western medical system and medical
techniques applied by white doctors (Juth,
2013).

ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH CARE IN
IMPROVING HEALTH
 The public health care system should
improve access to primary health care
improving the health of aboriginal peoples.
 The public health care system should invest
in primary health care for promoting social
justice and equality.
 The public health care system should
recognize the fact that universal access to
primary health care is a fundamental right
(Dalton-Brown, 2016).

IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE
POPULATION
 Public health and primary care should be
integrated to provide excellent health care to
aboriginal peoples.
 Public health system and health care delivery
system should share the resources, data,
space or personnel.
 Public health system and health care delivery
system should be integrated into the
programmatic level and seamlessly work
together (Ford, 2016).

DEMANDS OF HEALTHCARE REFORMS
FOR THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
 The aboriginal population of Australia is
demanding reforms in the delivery of
healthcare system.
 The health care system should be delivered
to their homes for better treatment of the
aging population (Zinck and Marmion, 2011).
 The aboriginal population needs nurses who
can take care of them throughout the day
and meet their requirements.

BRIDGING THE GAP IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
 More indigenous health workforce has to be
recruited in order to bridge the gap in
healthcare facilities between the indigenous
and non-indigenous people.
 The development of healthcare facilities
need to be done for increasing the access
(Zhang, Oldenburg and Turrell, 2009).
 The transport facilities and increase in the
awareness among the people can also help
to deal with the situation.

PROBLEMS WITH HEALTH WORKFORCE
SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION
 The quality of the healthcare system
depends on the supply of trained health
workforce and infrastructure.
 The rural community generally has
inadequate doctors, nurses, and health care
workforce (Grace et al., 2018).
 The insecurities and stress among healthcare
workforce have increased due to a complex
combination of old and new problems.

INCENTIVES ARE GIVEN TO THE HEALTH
WORKERS FOR RETAINING AND MOTIVATING
 Low health budget, migration and less
number of students entering the professional
course is the main reason for the shortage of
health workers (Bouad Chaar, 2017).
 Low salary, poor working condition and lack
of opportunities for professional development
aggravate this problem.
 The shortage of health workers results in the
development of inappropriate skill and gaps
in the distribution of the health workforce.

PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO ATTRACT C
 Financial and non-financial incentives are
being provided to the nurses to attract them
to render their services in remote areas.
 The incentives so provided vary according to
the geographic origin and the intrinsic
motivation of the nurses (Grice and Meehan,
2016).
 Nurses with higher intrinsic motivation are
willing to work in remote areas.

URBANIZATION AND ITS IMPACT
ON HEALTH
 Unplanned and rapid urban growth leads to
poverty and associated health problems.
 The local and national government has
adopted numerous health policies to deal
with unplanned urbanization (John Crowther
and Theresa Ragusa, 2011).
 Good governance and urban planning will
help in solving critical health problems.

ISSUES IN THE MEDICAL
RESEARCH SECTOR
 The rise of artificial intelligence is the major
trend that will affect the healthcare industry.
 The healthcare organizations should keep the
generators and critical system underground
to ascertain disaster preparedness (Dalton-
brown, 2016).
 The risk of opioid patients can be managed
by using care management programme from
other areas.

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
 The social determinants like public health
and health inequalities had obliged the local
government to broaden its commitment.
 Public health act codifies the public health
role of local government (Brown, 2017).
 The World Health Organisation has
highlighted the role of local government in
ensuring health equity.

HEALTH INSURANCES ADOPTED BY GOVERNMENT
 The healthcare international offers
personalized health insurance for full medical
coverage.
 Healthcare international offers international
healthcare policies that are similar to
domestic policies (Paolucci, paolucci and
Ergas, 2011).
 The policy of healthcare international covers
medical procedures and medical diagnostic
tests.

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