Health Challenges Faced by Rural and Remote Australians

Essay

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Rural and Remote Australia's......................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The term rural and remote is refer to those area which are outside from the Australia's
major cities. As these are classified into three region such as inner regional, outer regional as
well as very remote regional. Approximately 28% population of Australia's are live in rural and
remote areas. These Australian population face lot of challenge for living because of their
geographical region. Even they often face poorer health outcomes in comparison to metropolitan
areas. The health condition of the remote Australian is worse in comparison of both city and
rural population in almost each condition. Hence, one of the most prevailing disease condition of
Australian population are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As about more than half of the
Australian population death is caused due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Therefore,
the essay report is focused on the remote and rural Australian population and also discussed the
detail condition of their health problem which they are facing as well as discussed about their
living lifestyle.
MAIN BODY
Rural and Remote Australia's
The remote area of Australia's is characterised as a small, isolated communities which are
having highest rates of health illness. Therefore, they need highest numbers of heath professional
for their care but they have lowest number of health professional. This cause higher number of
population hospitalisation and earlier death (Beccaria & et.al., (2021)). Whereas the individual
behaviours are one of the main contextual factors which can affect the persons health. For
example, as how much the education an individual have, where they live, they have job or not,
what kind of work they do. As these contextual factors are come under the social, economical as
well as environmental domains. The amount of people live in the rural and remote areas in
Australia's are less healthy as well as less people to look after. The whole range of health status
as well as efficacy of health services may cause the excess mortality rate in Australia's. The
social determinant play a certain major role of mortality (Woolley, Sen Gupta & Larkins.,
(2018)).
The lower level of education, lower income, unemployment as well as poorer access to
health services are comes under the social determinant to poor health for people who live in rural
or remote areas of Australia's. They also are in higher risk for common health problems due to
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