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Social Determinants of Mental Health

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Social Determinants of Mental Health

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TABLE OF CONTENTSTASK...............................................................................................................................................1Examining the chosen social need “Mental health” in Australia.....................................................1Definition of Social Needs and Mental Health: ....................................................................1Group affected by mental health in Australia: .....................................................................1Social determinants and needs of Coal-miners:.....................................................................1Analysis of relevant historical community response:.............................................................2Analysis of Current community response:.............................................................................2Loopholes in government policies:........................................................................................3Recommendations:.................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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TASKExamining the chosen social need “Mental health” in Australia.Definition of Social Needs and Mental Health:Social needs refers to demand of individual person to have relationship with others andestablish a network through which they can contact to each other. It constitutes as most importantrequirement of an individual irrespective of their age/ gender. This includes love, affection,recognition and belongingness with each other. Mental health refers to individual behavioural,cognitive and emotional well-being. It affects the way a person thinks, feel and act further, itshows how we handle stress and other related issues (Bowers and et.al, 2018). The need of socialattachment is maximum in mentally challenged and ill person as they are been separated fromsociety. Group affected by mental health in Australia: According to recent survey by government agency in Australia it was analysed that out ofevery five people one is suffering from issues of mental health and has shown symptoms ofpsychiatric illness like, anxiety, depression, psychological disorder and social isolation. Currentstudies shows that highest number of mentally ill people are reported in mining industry. Largenumber of employees has reported that they have taken leave from work due to mental sickness. Coal-mining contributes crucially to chosen country economy and employs 2% ofnational workforce and they are characterised in following ways; male workers 85% and femaleworkers are 15%. They all are aged between 25 and 45 years with relatively high income ofthose who are employed in fly-in-fly-out. There is link between work and mental health betterworking environment promotes productivity of individual. In Australia, coal mining industry,metal health was reported at risk and study highlighted that self-reported psychological distressof coal-miners is higher in comparison to any other employees (Considine and et.al., 2017). Social determinants and needs of Coal-miners: Social determinants which are affecting on health of miners are workplace factors andattitudes, socio-demographic characteristics, poor organisational justice, low role clarity, highworkload situations, etc. Social needs of mining people are love and affection of their familymembers, proper working hours and work-friendly environment. Different surveys and articlesrevealed that increasing reason of mental issues in miners are due to remote location of miningindustries and no accessibility of mental health treatment in those places (Stanton, Reaburn and1
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