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Running head: SIGNIFICANT INEQUALITIES IN HEALTHCARE 1Significant Inequalities in HealthcareStudent’s nameProfessor’s nameInstitutional AffiliationDate
SIGNIFICANT INEQUALITIES IN HEALTHCARE 2Why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders still experience significant inequalities in health? Inequalities in the healthcare between the indigenous Australian people and theircounterpart non-indigenous individuals is remarked as one of the most massive act by worldhealth organisation (WHO). It was approximated that in the year 2010 to 2012 the lifeexpectancy of the Aboriginal and the Torres Islander people was 10.6 years for men and 9.5years for women compared to that non-Aboriginal (Jongen, McCalman, Bainbridge &Tsey,2014). The research done showed that non-communicable infections were responsible forabout 70%, the Cardiovascular epidemic was 23%, diabetes 12 %, mental diseases was 12 %,and the chronic diseases had the least percentage of 9 (Durey & Thompson, 2012). This paperwill address some of the health inequalities experiences faced by the Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander people. Three types of strategies used in the past fifty years in improving the healthstatus of the Indigenous Australian people will as well be discussed. The cultural practices of the Aboriginal people of the Australian are intricate and morediverse. The aboriginal people of Australia are one of the oldest embraced culture dated back50000 years ago. The leading cause of their existence is the capability to cope with anyenvironmental conditions. These people have tried to maintain their cultural heritage for a longtime. The continued culture was achieved through the exchange of the knowledge, rituals, artsfrom the current generation to the next generation. The essential part that has facilitated thewellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait people is their environment, land and the cultureoverwhelmed by the spiritual prosperity. The first Australian practised hunting and the gatheringas their primary source of nutrition. The food nutrients were made of wild savages and
SIGNIFICANT INEQUALITIES IN HEALTHCARE 3uncultivated plants. Such tradition food contains a high level of proteins, carbohydrates and lowlevel of sugars and fats (Priest, Mackean, Davis, Briggs & Waters,2012). The world health organisation defined the health determinant as a fundamental form ofsocial organisation that determine the structure through which people live, grow and work. Theradical way of the organisation for the indigenous Australians is setting them with theemployment, housing, health and the education services. This kind of the organisation will allowthem to live a more fit life. The clinical attention of the health intervention on the people'sbehaviour based on the diet, exercises and use of disease preventive measures like use ofcondoms to prevent STDS. Despite these structural problems, poverty has not been addressed.Debt represents the Aboriginal individuals as most lower social economic (Markwick, Ansari,Sullivan, Parsons & McNeil,2014). The education is a primary need that can be availed to the Aboriginal, and the TorresStrait Islander though has not yet met all their requirements. There is still low number of peoplethat have been enrolled in schools increasing the vulnerability of child labour. Education is veryvital for the Indigenous Australian individuals as it equips them with knowledge and makes thepeople valuable. However, the training should incorporate land enactment form of the livelihoodthat usually involves their lands. Thus, enabling them to apprehend the competence in theirtradition (Prout,2012). There is insufficient investment in healthcare within the regions of Aboriginal due totheir remote nature contributes to health inequality among the native communities. Theindigenous people have a number of the cultural practices that prevent them from accessing goodhealthcare. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander have difficult languages which make it a
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