Reproductive and Sexual Health for Aboriginal People - Assignment

This assignment addresses reproductive and sexual health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It begins by identifying and describing crucial factors for planning and managing these services, emphasizing cultural capability, leadership and partnership, and equity and equality. The solution then outlines three key strategies to support positive reproductive and sexual health outcomes within this population. These strategies include improving community awareness, information, and prevention through health promotion, enhancing the service system to ensure accessibility and collaboration, and developing community-led and culturally appropriate family planning methods. Each strategy is explained with supporting evidence from relevant literature, focusing on preventing sexual diseases and unplanned pregnancies, which are significant health concerns for Aboriginal communities. The solution emphasizes the importance of culturally sensitive approaches to improve health outcomes.

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Q1. Describe some of the factors that must be considered to appropriately plan and
manage reproductive and sexual health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people.
One of the factors that must be considered for an appropriate plan and management of
reproductive and sexual health services among the native people is cultural capability. Native
cultures vary significantly across Australia. Learning about the cultural perspectives, attitudes,
and behavior of native people is important as it will prevent any inaccurate assumptions or
judgment and ensure effective communication (Australian government, 2013).
The other factor that should be considered is leadership and partnership. The aboriginal
people and their organization should be actively be involved in the decision making about the
planning and management of reproductive and sexual health services that can meet the needs of
everyone in the community and their families.
The third factor that should be considered is equity and equality. The child and family
health services should be planned and delivered in effective ways that eliminate the background,
location, or inequalities of the aboriginal people. With consideration to the factor, everyone will
be able to access quality reproductive and sexual services such as family planning services, thus
preventing the spread of sexual diseases and unplanned pregnancy (Ward et al., 2014).
Q2. List three strategies that health services can use to support good reproductive and
sexual health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Explain why each
strategy is useful and appropriate for this cultural group, using references to support your
answers.
Good sexual and reproductive health is vital to everyone’s overall health and wellbeing.
One of the strategies that can be used to support good reproductive and sexual health outcomes
among the native people is the improvement of community awareness, information, and

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prevention. The health care institutions need to ensure everyone in the community has access to
information about sexual and reproductive health. This can be done through the use of health
promotion messages that display or show safe sexual practices. The messages can be displayed
via the use of posters, magazines, television, and during the campaign. Some of the information
that can be displayed on safe practices is the use of protective measures such as condoms and
abstinence as such practices are effective in preventing the spread of sexual disorders like
HIV/AIDs, gonorrhea, and syphilis (AIHW, 2019).
The other strategy is improving the service system. The health care organization needs to
put measures that can ensure sexual and reproductive health services are collaborative, available,
and accessible to everyone in the community. Improving access to screening, testing, and
treatment of sexual diseases can play a critical role in preventing the spread of sexual diseases,
which is considered as one of the health issues facing the native people in Australia (Australian
government, 2013).
The third strategy is strategizing on the best way to respond to the needs of the aboriginal
community. This can involve developing the community-led and community-based culturally
appropriate family planning methods that can intensify health literacy, thus preventing the spread
of sexual diseases and unplanned pregnancy, which remains one of the health issues among the
aboriginal people (McCalman et al., 2014).

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References
Australian government (2013). National Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander health plan 2013-
2023. Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia.
AIHW.(2019). Cervical screening in Australia 2019. Canberra: Australia institute of health and
welfare.
McCalman, J., Tsey, K., Bainbridge, R., Rowley, K., Percival, N., O’Donoghue, L., Brands, J.,
Whiteside, M. and Judd, J., 2014. The characteristics, implementation and effects of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander health promotion tools: a systematic literature search. BMC Public
Health, 14(1), p.712.
Ward, J., Goller, J., Ali, H., Bowring, A., Couzos, S., Saunders, M., Yau, P., Kaldor, J.M.,
Hellard, M., Guy, R.J. and Donovan, B., 2014. Chlamydia among Australian Aboriginal and/or
Torres Strait Islander people attending sexual health services, general practices and Aboriginal
community controlled health services. BMC health services research, 14(1), p.285.