Health Challenges and Kidney Disease in Aboriginal Population

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Nature of the health problem...........................................................................................................2
Population affected..........................................................................................................................2
Magnitude of the health problem.....................................................................................................3
Proximal and distal determinants of the health problem.................................................................6
Additional features of the targeted population................................................................................7
Requirement of the public health intervention strategy...................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The failure and the dysfunction of the kidneys are one of the many health challenges
faced by the aboriginal population in Australia. Factors such as diabetes, lack of proper level of
nutrition, lack of exercises, obesity and smoking are among the major causes that contributes to
the kidney failures and the disease. This report aims to focus over the kidney challenges and
disease and the health hazards within the aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people in Australia
and focuses attention towards the urgent requirement for the preventive approaches by the
government of the country for addressing this particular critical health issue of the community
people.
Nature of the health problem
According to Hoy (2016) in the year 2012-2013 almost one in five among the aboriginal
and the Torres strait islander people belonging among the age of 18 had the indicator of chronic
kidney related disease. The nature of the health hazard, the kidney failure is also termed as
nephropathy. The nephritis is the tendency of the inflammation of the nephrons and the
functional units of the kidney. Associated majorly with the poverty, the nature of this health
hazard ranges from chronic kidney disease and end stage disease where the patient either needs
transplant or dialysis for survival. This renal failure is specifically higher in the remote and the
rural areas of Australia.
Population affected
The issues and the context of the kidney disease came in sharp focus in the northern
territory as more number of the aboriginal people were diagnosed with kidney failure. The