Comprehensive Report: Health Assessment of Winton Community, Australia

This report presents a community health assessment of Winton, Queensland, focusing on the health challenges faced by its residents. The report identifies three primary factors threatening the community's health: social and economic factors (poverty, unemployment), environmental factors (poor workplace conditions, pollution), and lack of health services. Key health problems identified include high rates of type 2 diabetes, bacterial skin infections, and mental illness, particularly among the elderly. The report highlights the impact of these issues, emphasizing the need for government assistance to address them and improve the community's overall health outcomes. The assessment examines the interplay between lifestyle, environmental factors, and access to healthcare, providing a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions for the Winton community. The study also references various research papers to support the findings and recommendations.

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Answer number 1.
a) Winton community is situated in the heart of the Queensland community, which holds
about 1500 people out of which 900 people are in the township. Total 11.4% of the
people comprises of aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander (Phelps & Kelly, 2019). The
community is rich in culture with belief in the traditional health care system. The
community have 26.4% of the people who are attending educational institution (Fletcher,
Moss & Salisbury, 2018). From the report, many people lack proper education, which is
mainly because of the low income and low living status. The culture and language
diversity is tremendous in the Winton community where 35.8% have Australian
ancestors, 29.6 English ancestors, 3.2 % German ancestor, 7.0% Scottish ancestor and
10.7% have Irish ancestor (Estrada, 2017). The majority of people follows Christianity
and speak English. Only 0.3% of people communicate in German and Italian (Mason &
Damjanovic, 2018).
b) The three factors that threaten the health of the Winton community are:
 Social and Economic factors- From the study of Lovell Gray & Boucher (2017),
it was reviewed that Winton community people are poor as many of them are not
employed. Additionally, the working population have a low income. Due to such
reason, they are not able to assess the health care service and result in poor health
outcome. The people identified were not confident about the treatment and
medication they take, which is the primary reason for the poor health. About 39%
of the people lack proper education, due to which they are not aware of the
modern health care system. They are not able to self-manage their health, and it
leads to poor quality of lifestyle (Estrada, 2017).

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 Environmental factors- The Winton community have good physical
environment but lack in many of the essentials elements like the healthy
workplace, clean air, safe water and safe house. All such elements identified in
the community is the primary reason for the emergence of different health issues
like diabetes, jaundice, asthma and skin infection. The working condition of the
population is not as healthy as they make use of old technology, which causes
huge pollution (Estrada et al., 2018). It affects the environment of the community
and even the people working in such a place.
 Lack of health service- The Winton community being a rural area still lacks in
having assessed to modern and developed health service. The community are
depended on the service, which is not effective in improving the health of the
people. Several new research has been conducted in the field of medical and
developed treatment and diagnosis plan for a disease like diabetes, skin infection,
mental illness. Winton community is not able to access the service, which is
mainly because of lack of awareness and concern about good health (Winters et
al., 2019).
Answer number 2.
The critical health problems that have been identified by the three factors in the Winton
community are as follow
1. Social and economic factors- The health issue noticed due to social and economic
factors is the high rate of type 2 diabetes (Murray et al., 2018).
2. Environmental factors- Due to environmental factor lead to developed of bacterial skin
infections in the Winton community people (Morris et al., 2016).

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3. Lack of health service- The major health issue noticed in the high rate of mental illness.
a) The population which are majorly affected by the health problem related to type 2
diabetes, skin infection and mental illness are an elderly group of peoples who are above
the age of the 70 years. From the analysis of the community, it came to know that older
people are not able to assess the health service and the type of medication taken by them
fails to improve the health condition of the elderly people.
The skin infection was mainly concerned to the adult male peoples because they
are involved in an unhealthy working place where there is an emission of enormous air
pollution and hazardous chemicals.
However, it was noted that type 2 diabetes was the common health problem that
prevails in the all age group of the people irrespective of gender.
b) The health problem identified in the Winton community is mainly related to the poor
lifestyle of the people and their traditional belief regarding treatment and therapy. As it is
observed in the community, Mental illness is primarily concentrated on elderly patient,
which is mainly because of poor access to health service (Hyun et al., 2016). The hospital
available in the community lack in skilled nurses, the proper health care system and
effective treatment plan, and those that are available is not bear by the people because of
low income and lack of financial assistance.
The type 2 diabetes potentially affects the community because; it was noted that
people of the community do not take properly balanced diet. The food they consume is
rich in sugar and cholesterol. Further, people are ignorant about physical activity. Such
unhealthy living is common among the people of the Winton community. Additionally, it
was noted that many of the people who are having type 2 diabetes are not diagnosed

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because of lack of proper health service. People are not able to take sufficient medication
and adopt an appropriate plan of treatment due to factors, as mentioned earlier.
The skin disease is widespread in the Winton community people because the
workplace does not have any standard and healthy protocol to lower the air and chemical
pollution. People are still working in such condition for the sake of money (Dykens,
2016). Thus, it can be said that the Winton community need governmental assistance, to
improve the health issue that is identified and evaluate for any more issue that could be a
threat to their health.

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