Page1 ASSIGNMENT 2- GUIDED WRITTEN RESPONSE TO CASE STUDY 1)Identifyanddiscusstwo social determinants of health thathelped to determine the need for the project. Provide examples from the video and include at least one scholarly reference foreachsocial determinant. Healthy child development is one of the globally recognised crucial determinant of the future health. Healthy child development is a moral responsibility of the nation and community. Hence families must discuss and undertake the initiatives to abandon the risk factors that adversely affects the childhood development such as substance use, domestic violence, child abuse etc. According to Brettig (2015), the influence of the home environment on social, emotional and spiritual development is probably even more significant. Parents may not be the best educators in some other domains but they have a huge influence on the wellbeing of their children. Likewise, from the video, developed by the Rural Health Channel (RHC,2014) it was evident that to shape healthy children, healthy community is required which determined the need for Gnibi project to develop healthy community. Creating supportive and caring environments for children and implementation of the activities and learning skills in the community ensuring optimum growth of children giving them equal chance to shape themselves into a responsible citizen in the community. The video also indicates the problem of social isolation which is a key factor in the development of children as there is no access to the childcare and other early childhood learning centres where children can find their strongest representative teachers as role models, learn, explore, play and cherish their childhood which builds the foundation stone of successful and heathy life. The
Page2 message conveyed in the video shows the importance of nurture and nature which means nurturing children’s skills and abilities and teaching children to respect the natural land in which they live and educate holistically. Education and health literacy is also considered as a fundamental human right and a path to the promising future but indigenous communities do not have the opportunity to complete or enter school. The video highlights one of the significant and serious problem of poverty in the community which stops them from going to school and leaves them without numeracy and literacy skills. A ladder to come out of the poverty is education. Education enables people to develop personally, eradicate poverty by achieving highly paid jobs, high standard of living and boost socio-economic development in the community. Educating the aboriginal children based on their cultural values, their relationships, language and connection to the aboriginal land is required to develop more interest in education and schools. “Indigenous peoples continue to face challenges in accessing the education that fully recognises the diversity of the Indigenous languages and cultures,” said The Australian Human Rights Commission President, Gillian Triggs. Lack of health literacy and education is determined in the video which indicates the need for this project as it increases mortality rates, morbidity and diseases in the aboriginal communities. Health literacy improves the ability of individual to live a healthy life by making appropriate health decisions. Health literacy enhances the knowledge of the food security, reduces malnutrition, maintain health and wellness, improves self-awareness of the diseases and chronic conditions and plays a key role in accessing additional health resources resulting in greater efficiency to the health system. Hence promotion of the health literacy and education reduces suicides and deaths,
Page3 promote gender equality and peace and it is one of the fine investment people can make in one’s community. 2)Identifyandexplainhow two primary health care principlesguided the projectin the video. Provide examples from the video and include at least one scholarly reference foreachprinciple. Health Promotion is one of the significant primary health care principle which directed this project. Aboriginal community presented in the video have been through anger, trauma, sexual abuse, grief and pain and have come together to make their community a better place to rejoice. Professor Judy in the project is trying to support people by holistically bringing together a shattered community where they make decisions, discuss the issues and find solutions to promote health and wellness. McPhail-Bell, Bond, Brough and Fredericks (2015) defined health promotion as a process of “enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Health promotion is both a practice and normative ideal regarding a particular vision of a good society”. Addressing the issues such as smoking, alcohol consumption, substance use and discussing the risk to exposure, listening to others, creating awareness and finding solutions to these problems by engaging seniors, youth, mums and kids. Some of the information sighted in the video motivate youth to indulge themselves in various self- development activities like Ian from the community did to develop his learning skills and likewise also creating new activities for the children which is a good example of establishing a healthy individual environment. Health promotion that is culturally responsive, facilitates empowerment of the community, boost confidence to control the issues and strengthen individual capabilities.
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