Nutritious Status of Aboriginals

Running head: NUTRITIOUS STATUS OF ABORIGINALS
NUTRITIOUS STATUS OF ABORIGINALS
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................2
Key measure of the media article...............................................................................................2
Health issues.................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of quality of media.....................................................................................................4
Impact of evaluation on the reader.............................................................................................5
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................5
Reference.........................................................................................................................................7
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The main of the essay is to critically evaluate the media item based on nutritious
status of aboriginals and Torres Strait islander with the aim to explore current health
issues affecting the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians by examining media
items and identifying how media is used to report Australian Indigenous peoples’ health
issues. The essay has talked about the its key measures, the health issues and
assessed the quality of media item based on Stoneham, Goodman and
Daube(2014)p.3.
Key measure of the media article
From the article 1 of Australian indigenous the nutrition status of the indigenous
people has been demonstrated. The article stated that their nutritious status is
influenced by the social, environmental and economic factors. The article has explained
that the reason for the high prevalence of disease is due to their poor nutrition diet. The
aboriginal peoples are suffering from several disease like mental health, respiratory
disease and cardiovascular disease. The key measure identified from the article 1 poor
diet is the major cause of lethal disease in aboriginal peoples like obesity, diabetes,
mental sickness, malnutrition and hypertension. From the research it is evident that out
of 70 % patients suffering from diabetes, 65.9% of peoples are facing the issue due to
poor diet which is rich is sugar and carbohydrates. There were 11% case of mental
health that belonged to aboriginal peoples (El Hayek Fares & Weiler, 2016) The suicide
rate for the indigenous people is two time higher than the non-indigenous people.
According to Helson et al. ( 2017) the major reason for such issues is their low nutrition
diet which is making them mentally retarded.
In the article number 2 which is a review report highlights that aboriginals and
Torres Strait islander nutritious is alarmingly poor. The review outline that the nutrition
diet of the aboriginals and Torres Strait islander are low in protein and vitamin which is
directly and indirectly is the reason for the five out of seven leading risk factors related
to health. Further, it is said that social disadvantage is the contributing factor for poor
nutritious diet of aboriginal peoples. The key measure identified in the article is that poor