How's Your Sugar? - Promoting Wellness and Education for Aboriginal Community

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Introduction
The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the decade of the actions
regarding the nutrition in the recognition for the requirement for the eradication all the forms of
malnutrition and over nutrition throughout the world. Diabetes has been one of the rapidly
growing chronic illness or disease which has reached towards the global academic proportion
posing a threating challenge for the public everywhere (Dabelea et al., 2014). The aboriginal and
Torres Strait islander people residing in Australia tends to experience a disproportionately higher
level of diabetes. According to Anderson et al. (2015) the aboriginal community of people are
more likely to get affected by type 2 diabetes in the comparison with non-indigenous
Australians. In the context of the initiation of the improvement of the condition, the web page
named, “How’s your sugar?” uses narrative information regarding health as one of the vital skills
for the provision of a holistic care for the aboriginal community people in Australia. “How’s
your sugar” employs a strength based, informal based model including a peer to peer narrative
approach that aims to enhance the ability for the provision of culturally safe data to the
aboriginals through education and the promotion of wellness.

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Mind Map
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Targeted Issues
Diabetes commonly named after the scientific name of diabetes mellitus is basically
the disease that is marked by the higher level of the glucose in blood. Diabetes is resulted due to
the body’s inability towards the production of the insulin on an effective way. This complex and
chronic condition leads to the disability, morbidity, the reduced life quality and premature death.
The targeted issue that is being discussed in this assignment is the increased level of the type 2
diabetes among the Aboriginal and Torres straits islander people that has been leading to high
mortality rates among the community in Australia (Dart et al., 2014). The webpage. “How’s your
sugar” deals with the practicalities of the complications of the disease related to large blood
Aboriginal and
Torres Strait
Islander
History -
Discrimination
Lack of the
access to health
care facilities
High mortality
rate
Malnutrition -
Disease
Excess
consumtion of
sugar
Type 2 diabetes
Campaign
-"Hows Your
Sugar?"
Knowledge and
eduction
Improvement of
health care
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
BLEM

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vessels, kidney disease, nerve and eye disease among the most common type 2 diabetes that is
impacting the aboriginal population in Australia.
History of the community
From the origins, the aboriginal community of people had been subject to
discrimination in terms of racialism and colonialism from the no aboriginals residing in
Australia. With the context of discrimination, the government of the country though have
developed certain legislative standards and policies for the community, the serotypes and the
discriminatory approaches till exist. Lack of proper access to health care facilities following up
with poverty and the lack of education has resulted in high level of mortality among the
aboriginals (Adegbija, Hoy & Wang, 2015). The aboriginal community in Australia experiences
abruptly high level of type 2 diabetes. With consuming un healthy processed food and
disproportionate amount of fat and sugar, there has been rising level of obesity and type 2
diabetes among the individuals in the aboriginal community ranging among the age from child to
old age.
Causes of the disease
Behavioral and biomedical factors of risk are known for increasing the development
risk of the diabetes specifically, the type 2 diabetes including factors such as the high level of
cholesterol, blood pressure , smocking of tobacco, low level of physical activities, consumption
of poor diet and condition of obese and overweight. The conventional risk factors among the
health risk factors for diabetes among the aboriginals include age and history of family and the
biomedical factors like the lifestyle and the use medical interventions (Eskicioglu et al., 2014).
Increased tendency of smoking of tobacco, poor nutrition and low rate of physical activity