Social Capital as a Department of Health
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Running head: SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A DETERMINANT OF HEALTHSocial capital as a determinant of healthName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
2SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A DETERMINANT OF HEALTHIntroduction: The impact of environmental determinants on health outcomes have been researchedextensively in the past decade, however, there still are significant gaps available in the availabledata regarding the patterns of influence of the health determinants on the outcome. One of themost vital health behaviour that potentially leads to a vast range of different health abnormalitiesis the lack of physical activity. There are a variety of different external and internal factors thatinfluence the lack of awareness regarding physical fitness in a given community. However, themost profound of impacts is imparted by the social capital (Caperchione et al., 2012).Social capital can be defined as any social connection or relationship prevalent in thecommunity that shapes the concepts of health literacy and awareness in the community members,and there are innumerable factors that define the relation of social capital on any particular healthoutcome or particular health behaviour. This assignment will attempt to discover the impact ofsocial capital as a determinant on the lack of physical activity taking the Older Culturally andLinguistically diverse Australians as the chosen population group.Patterns in physical activity for the chosen population: Physical activity can be considered as one of the most impactful health promotionalbehaviour which can help in warding off a wide variety of different health problems like cardiacdisorders, diabetes, renal diseases and obesity. However, considering the population of choice forthis paper, there is a significant lack of physical activity which in turn is reflected as a rapidlyrising rate of cardiovascular and renal disorders in the culturally and linguistically diverse(CALD) older Australians. It has to be understood that Australia comprises if a vastlymulticultural population and the CALD migrants, and according to the recent statistics, Australia
3SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A DETERMINANT OF HEALTHhas witnessed a massive increase in the rate of migration in the last decade (Caperchione et al.,2011). As a result Australia is now home to double the number of migrant residents than adecade ago. Therefore, the cultural and linguistically diversity has also increased rapidly in theAustralian society, and the resettlement into westernized culture of the host country has beendiscovered as a considerable challenge for the diverse ethnic communities. According to therecent consensus, the data indicates at the CALD population being extremely vulnerable to a vastmajority of health risks and co-morbidities. Among the variety of reasons that are prevalent inthe CALD communities and the increasing health risks is the challenging process ofacculturation, adapting to the westernized culture of the host country. Acculturation can be defined as the phenomenon where a community or a particular group ofindividuals belonging to different cultural backgrounds encounter the subsequent changes intheir original cultural patterns of all the different cultural backgrounds coming together. Now, ithas to be understood that despite the alarming risk for non- communicable diseases there is asignificant lack of any considerable physical exercise regime or activity. According o the dataavailable, the culturally and linguistically diverse communities less likely to participate in thehealth promotional and preventative activities, moreover, in the older individuals, proactiveefforts for preventative and promotional health behaviours is completely absent (Kohl et al,2012). On a more elaborative note, the percentage of individuals having a sedentary lifestyle iscrucially high in case of Australia; about 12 million adult Australian residents follow very littleor no physical activity regime on a daily basis. Now considering the elderly population, a totalpercentage of 40.4% individuals belonging to the age group of 64 to 75 have a sedentarylifestyle; and about 57.2% belong to the age group of older than 75 have a sedentary lifestyle.
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