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Sociological and Psychological Theories of Health

   

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Running head: PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH CAREPSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH CAREName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
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1PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH CARE1st partThe case study reveals the fact that Kevin Johnson belonged to a low middle class familywith an aboriginal background. The health of the aboriginal people is determined by a variety offactors that are considered as the social determinants of health such as the culture and thesocioeconomic status, fooding, infrastructure and social inclusion. The choice of question for thiscase would be the cultural identity (Currie et al. 2014). “How does cultural identity beconsidered as a social determinant of health and how does it impact on diabetes?”It is to be remembered that culture plays a large role while discussing about the health of theaboriginal adolescents like Kevin. Most of their health beliefs and the treatment are related to thebush medicines or concepts of traditional beliefs. According to Olson and Anderson (2013) thechronic care of diabetes underscores the importance of the self management of diabetes. Theaboriginal and the Torres Strait Islanders are four times more likely to have diabetes. It is evidentfrom the case study that Kevin’s come of a lower middle class aboriginal family where theincome is tight and hence it became impossible to get nutritious food due to their lowsocioeconomic status, Kevin probably have to feed on high calorigenic cheap food which canexacerbate his diabetic status . Previously the traditional lifestyle of the aboriginal people weremuch active including the eating of the healthy foods but nowadays the life style have changed(Beatriz, Sherry and Alexandra, 2011). The current food habits of the aboriginals are mainlyglycaemic and attribute to diabetes. Aboriginal children now greatly depend upon the fatty orcalorigenic food (O’Dea and Dibley 2014). Kevin and his mother often visit the food park where
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2PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH CAREthey get exposed to heavy calorigenic food as it always not possible for them to adhere to aproper nutrition regimen owing to the their low economic background. Furthermore access to a proper health care service is also a crucial factor in themanagement of diabetes (Bourke et al. 2012). Kevin stays in South Australia which can pose areal problem while accessing the health care benefits. Although, Kevin and his mother’sperception regarding the westernized health care treatment cannot be understood from this casestudy, yet in general, duty their history of colonization aboriginals has less dependency on thewesternized treatment (Canuto et al. 2011). It can be known from an instance that there was adeep cut with purulent discharge in Kevin’s feet. Wound healing can be difficult in patientssuffering from diabetes and requires immediate care, but people belonging to an aboriginalbackground might not believe in serious pharmacological treatment for just a mere cut andmainly depends on the herbal medicines. This may be due to the lack of cultural competencyamong the health care professionals (Liaw et al. 2011).The lower health literacy among theaboriginal population can be another factor that can cause barrier to the management of diabetes.Hence, it can be said that culture of a person determines the diabetic management. 2nd partThe second part will discuss about the role of the culture as the social determinants ofhealth. For the majority of the history of the modern medical science health was viewedprimarily as the absence of any disease or any defect (Bourke et al. 2012). There are twofundamental values of the aboriginal people that us the balance and the respect and these formthe cornerstone of the world views of a person. It can be seen from the case study that Kevin isan aboriginal boy whose tradition, culture, ethnicity and even the food habits are different from
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