National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization (NACCHO) Pilot Program

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Section 1 - Professional standpoint from the cultural competencies
From my professional standpoint as the project officer for the pilot program for the NACCHO
includes the awareness towards the increasing gap in the health outcomes and the health care
among the aboriginal and the non-aboriginal population in Australia. It is my duty towards the
understanding of the requirement of the closing the gap in the life expectancy among the
aboriginal and the non aboriginal people towards the access to the basic and the primary health
care services. It is my job and the duty as the project officer of the organization to target tea e or
the remote region in the country and appoint the health care service workers or the social
workers so that they can work for the disadvantaged group of people. My job furthermore
includes the impart of the knowledge and arrangement of the training for the needs of the health
needs and enabling the aboriginal community towards their knowledge for their right of the
effective and safe health needs and requirements. From my professional standpoint it is
furthermore my responsibility to communicate with the aboriginal community people and get to
know their challenges and their issues they are facing and whether they are getting help and
support from the health camps and the government agencies who are assigned for helping the
basic health needs of the aboriginal people. It is furthermore my duty to take a note of the rate
and the type of the chronic disease that affects the aboriginal population causing increasing rate
of mortality .
Section 2 - Social, Institutional, and Historical factors relevant to the
project. Ethical issues of the project

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The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization (NACCHO) is the
aboriginal body with the national peak that represents the controlled health services of the
aboriginal community in the country of Australia.
In the context of the social services, this particular organization aims towards the provision of the
social services like the propagation of the health care services to the aboriginal community. The
social structure of the NACCHO includes the initiation of the primary health care services that is
being operated by the local community of the aboriginals for the delivering of the holistic and the
comprehensive health care facilities towards the community who have been discriminated for
long. The organization is one of the enduring example of the community that controlled and
initiated the responses towards the issues with the relation towards the social and the health
related needs.
In the context of the institutional factors, the organization was established in the year 1971 due
to the lack of the adequate dealing of the mainstream services towards the health care needs of
the aboriginal people in Australia. The ACCHO’S operate its institutional framework for the
social service in the regional, remote and the urban areas of Australia. The institutional services
range from the employment of 100 professionals in the field of health care and medicine for the
provision of the range of services in the regional and the urban centers. The organization
furthermore targets over the factors such as the preventative care, the health related education to
the community people, focus over the development in the early childhood settings and the
management of the chronic diseases. The network formed by the ACCHO includes the
independent and the autonomous aboriginal people targeting the services within the keeping with
the philosophy regarding the control of the aboriginal community and the view of the aboriginal
health statistics.