Inequality in Indigenous Health

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1 - Two different reasons for the inequality among the Indigenous and the non indigenous
Australians in relation to the identified issue of health
The identified health issue in this context is the childhood obesity among the Indigenous
population of Australia. According to Di Cesare et al. (2013) the challenges of obesity is a
serious medical condition that hinders the health of the child and the adolescents. The two major
factors which possess as the reason for the inequality among the Indigenous and the non
indigenous Australians in the context of the rising rate of the childhood obesity are the
following.
The racial discrimination – Racial discrimination is one of the main cause for the inequalities of
the health that exist among the indigenous and the non-indigenous Australians. The indigenous
population of the Australia often endures abusive treatments, lack of effective and quality health
facilities and stereotyping due to racism as compared to the non-indigenous ones. The children of
the indigenous community in the health care system often are being demonstrated by poor
mental, physical and the behavioral challenges in subject to the racist treatments leading the
children towards microaggression towards the non aboriginals of Australia. Furthermore racism
in the health care system among the indigenous group of people regarding the implicit biases
results in varied and differential treatments of the clinics that furthermore lead to low quality of
the care for the racialized group of people. According to Mitrou et al. (2014) racism play s a
very essential reason for the discrimination or the inequality among the indigenous and the non
indigenous people in the context of the health and the childhood obesity since they are often
trayed as intruders and given substandard care,.

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Poverty and lack of education - Australia has been largely affected by the increasing rate of the
urbanization, the industrialization and the mechanism with some of the associated changes in the
behavior and the diet. The community of the Indigenous people have increased the consumption
of the energy dense diet food which are high in the fat and comparatively low in unrefined
carbohydrates. According to Bleich et al. (2013) the highest level of the obesity is found in the
population group pf the indigenous and their children who are under great poverty. Lack of
proper education, poverty are the main factors of the reason of the inequality among the
indigenous and the non indigenous population in terms of the childhood obesity and the health
challenges. There has been rising level of the obesity among the children belonging to the
indigenous group since they undergo economic transition that is coexisted with chronic level of
undernutrition (Laws et al. 2014). The insecurity of the food is associated with the lower rate of
the expenditure on food . low rate of the vegetable and the fruit consumption and lower level of
the quality diets. The energy dense food furthermore represents options of lower level of costs.
This high intake of the sugar provides significant energy without specific range of ingredients
that initiates in the weight gain among the children.
2 - Example of primary health care intervention addressing the identified health issue for
the Indigenous Australians for closing the gap. Impact of the intervention on the reduced
inequality
For the target of closing the gap of the inequality among the indigenous and the non indigenous
population of Australia, one of the example of the primary health care intervention for the
targeted issue of health, that is the childhood obesity is as follows.