Reflection on Public Health Principles and Practice

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Assessment 1 Reflection 2: Reflection on public health principles and practice
Reflection 2: Covering Module 5-12
Please reflect on your understanding of the topics covering module5-12.
You are required to write within 200 words per question. Please read the Assessment 1 brief before
developing your assessment.
You are required to support your ideas by providing at least 2 credible references for each topic.
The APA referencing system is required for in-text citation and reference list. Please compile all your
references outside the table.
Reflection of your understanding/perspective on the given topics below
Module 5 - 6
Explain any one challenge for the practice of public health for drug abuse. Proposed a recommendation to
address that challenge.
Ans: Out of some major challenges, common one is addressing and dealing with stress and trauma without using
abusive substances like alcohol and drugs. Many people believe it easy to adopt for alcohol and drugs to deal with the
traumatic and shameful situations in life (Peacock et. al., 2019). While many people get addicted to such substances
even after passing the situation. In rehabilitation centres, people have to deal with all situations without the aid of such
addictive and harmful substances. The situation get very challenging to them as it requires a lot of strength, effort,
strong mindset, time, and bravery to deal and confront such issues head-on and try to address the issue on their own
with full consciousness. When working with therapists and counsellors in rehabilitation centre, people with addiction
get many chances to deal with such situations bravely with their guidance. Professionals always tends to provide their
full support and help people to overcome the situations. They should be recommended to follow the guidance provided
by therapists and counsellors in order to learn to deal with shameful and stressful conditions calmly and try to make a
positive mindset and keep moving forward and promote self growth (Dunlop et. al., 2020).
Module 7- 8
Identify any two health behaviours for Indigenous Australians that cause negative health outcomes among
them. Critically explain two potential factors that may influence those behaviours
Ans: Biomedical risks and dietary behaviours are two health behaviours that cause negative health outcomes to
Indigenous Australians. Two factors that influence this negative health outcomes are: Smoking and alcohol
consumption & Health inactivity. Indigenous population marked to be significantly higher in habit of smoking and
drinking alcohol (Taylor & Guerin, 2019). Indigenous population already lack on accessing good and nutritional diet
which reported to be badly influence their health, including coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes. A survey has
showed that children's population of 85% in indigenous group aged between 2-14 and 97% of indigenous adults are
unable to access daily fruit or vegetable intake. Henceforth; they have no access to effective medical facilities also pose
specific and direct risks to their health. A survey report from 2012-2013 revealed the prevalence of high blood pressure
and obesity among indigenous people. Physical inactivity is a factor that cannot be ignored while discussing risk factors
and associated bad behaviours that influence negative health outcome among people. Indigenous Australians reported to
be physically inactive.
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