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Specific Health Care Needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders

   

Added on  2021-04-21

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Running head: Specific Health care needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islandersSpecific Health care needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islandersName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1Specific Health care needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islandersIntroduction:As of 2016 City of Sydney community profile, a total of 2417 indigenous Australianslive in Sydney as of 2016. The figure below shows the total population of IndigenousAustralians in Sydney. It also, shows the number of individuals from Aboriginal. TorresStrait and Mixed Heritages and the kinds of dwellings they live in (Profile.id.com.au, 2016).Figure 1: Indigenous populations in Sydney (source: Profile.id.com.au, 2016)According to usstats.abs.gov.au, 10,040 people (or 42% of the Australian populationof Sydney reported one or more long term conditions. The common long term conditionswere Asthma (3810), Hearing problems (2820), Chest problem (2250), Skin problem (2020),and Cardiac problem (1600), Hypertension (1310). This shows that Asthma is the biggestmorbidity faced by the indigenous populations in Sydney (Ausstats.abs.gov.au, 2018).

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