Inequity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in Health

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HEALTH AND SOCIETY 2
Discuss two different reasons for inequity between Indigenous Australians and non-
Indigenous Australians concerning your identified health issue.
1ntroduction
There is an identified issue that is the inequality between the indigenous and non-
indigenous Australians. This can be particularly viewed to chronic health issues. An example is
childhood obesity. The Australian government has tried high and low on how to address the
issue, but eventually, their effort has borne no bids. In addressing the problem, there are also
incremental funds in addressing the childhood obesity issue. But all these the government is
proceeding with their detailed strategies and national frameworks to address the issue of
childhood obesity. To solve the problem, they have formulated the engagement of these two
different groups and also express various means to acknowledge their interaction issues. Despite
trying these methods, there have been slow improvements in some areas of health in addressing
this issue. There some gains which have been achieved but they are too few (Armstrong et
al.,2017 p, 2140). These gains do not qualify to the magnitude experienced by the non-
indigenous population. The benefit which have been achieved, have brought a minimal impact
on the inequality gap between the indigenous and the non-indigenous Australians. The
contributing factors to the inequality of these two groups in addressing the childhood obesity are
the failure of the government to resolve the issue and the right to health is not well understood
(Azzopardi et al.,2018, p, 763).
One of the factors is that the government have not achieved their set framework in
resolving the issue. In these, they have left the issue of addressing childhood obesity to the
specified future time. This means on this account all the Australian government has failed to be

HEALTH AND SOCIETY 3
accountable in achieving the health equality on these two groups. Secondly, the government has
not matched their most of the commitments by providing the healthy sectors in funds which
supports the treatment of childhood obesity in the two different groups. Moreover, they have
failed to engineer the health programs which are set to impact the broad policy that looks at the
health issue of obesity (Renzaho et al.,2016, p. 9). According to the report provided by the
justice system, it shows that there is a gap between these two groups of people and this means
that the government is not taking serious measures hence eliminating the concept of human
rights in the country.
The other factor is that the right to health services, and also the infrastructure is not well
taken care of. These means that the gap will always be evident if the concerned services are not
providing opportunities where these groups of people can be healthy. The relevant stakeholders
should ensure that the primary health care is accessible to the indigenous and the non-indigenous
people in Australia. When this is achieved the resources will be equitably distributed between
this population groups (Woolcock, 2018 p, 15).
Conclusion
In conclusion, when all these factors which causes the gap are well considered the gap
existing between the indigenous and non-indigenous Australians cannot exist any longer.
Moreover, these people with the health issue of childhood obesity should be provided with better
housing, good water and sanitation, and enough food supplies which meets their required health
standards. To ensure that it is right to health, equitable distribution of the primary health care
should not be measured to the two distinguished groups.