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HIM 200 - Mental Health Care and Context in Australia

   

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Running head: MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND CONTEXT Mental health care and contextName of the studentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND CONTEXTTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Background information about the problem...................................................................................2Description of the problem..............................................................................................................3Overview of the solutions to be outlined.........................................................................................4Paragraph 1......................................................................................................................................5Research feminism in Australian mental health..............................................................................5Paragraph 2......................................................................................................................................6Post modernism in Australian mental health...................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7Reference.........................................................................................................................................8
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2MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND CONTEXTIntroduction This report states that the aboriginal women are subject to certain risks that are related topoor health conditions. Aboriginal women are experiencing significantly weaker healthconditions. Various indigenous women are suffering from health problems because of thesituation of their lives, having major influences being associated with dispossession, forcedremovals from families, marginalization, racism as well as getting exposed to violent behaviours.For ensuring improved outcomes related to health, strategies should be including knowledge aswell as awareness related with the historical aspects, experience, cultural aspects as well as therights of indigenous women. Background information about the problem From the research that has been conducted on the Aboriginal people, it was found out thatdisorders of the mind are the second biggest reason regarding ‘burden of illness’. The AustralianBureau of Statistics is defining burden of illness to be the health loss regarding the Australiansbecause of premature mortality, disability as well as other events that are considered being non-fatal. The major kind of mental health or disorders regarding the behaviour due to which thehospitalization of Aboriginal people takes place was because of psychoactive materials (38%),followed by schizophrenia, as well as disorders that are delusional (26%), as well as disorders ofthe mood (15%) (O’Reilly 2017). There has been the identification of depression to be one of thesix most frequent challenges that the GPs manage in respect of the Aboriginal patients. It wasfound out by the ‘Human Rights of People having Mental Illness’ that unsociable as well as self-destructive behavioural aspects, frequently the outcome of mental as well as social anguish that
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