PUBH6000 Report: Gender, Depression, and Health Promotion in Australia

This report examines depression in Australia, highlighting the significant impact of mental health issues on the population. It discusses the prevalence of depression, particularly among specific groups like Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the role of social and economic factors. T...Read More

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Executive summary
The aim of this report is to understand the people of Australia who are having depression.
According to WHO, Australia is one of the depressed countries in the world. People who are
having depression experience continuous negativity, sadness and problem in coping with the
circumstances. The paper discusses about the certain health promotion activities on the
people of Australia and what levels of interventions are modulated in order to cure them. It
can be concluded herby that mental illness or depression is a gradual process and it goes with
the proper implication of therapy and medication.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Mental health in Australia and the depression in the specific group of people.....................3
Gender and human rights.......................................................................................................4
Health promotion to the Aboriginal people...........................................................................5
Positive mental health and socio-ecological model...............................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Depression is a mental disorder in which the affected people feel very low in their
respective environment. The one of the significant issue that Australia is facing is the
problems with depression. It is noted that in Australia 45% of the people suffer the mental
condition or the mental illness in their lifetime. Statistical study reviews that in one year 1
million of the people are having depression and over 2 million of the people are having
anxiety (Ayyoub, 2015). Many of the people in Australia used to consume the antidepressant
medicines in order to cure themselves. The following part of the paper will reflect about the
gender in relation with the depression in the people of Australia. Also, what is the health
promotion is performed with them and the level of interventions that have conducted with
them. The health outcomes and the external factors are affected to the people of Australia.
Discussion
Mental health in Australia and the depression in the specific group of people
Good mental health is the wellbeing of the people in Australia. Mental health
problems or psychological depression like depression is diminishing the value of life and
reduces the productivity of Australia. People with the high level of this illness can cause a
high level of morbidity and the mortality rates in Australia. In the recent years, it is noted that
one of the ten leading causes which affect the health of Australia is the depression and
anxiety. Anxiety disorder like social phobia, panic disorder and traumatic stress disorder
affects nearly all the people in Australia irrespective of the gender. Overuse of alcohol and
drug issue in the people of Australia can lead those to depression (Beesley et al., 2015). The
social factors affect the health of the people. Social elements can undermine or strengthen the
individual’s health. The people from the more impoverished background have a high risk of
poor health, and they do not have any advantages like the rich ones who can avail advantages.

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Their economic and the social conditions coin the health advantages and disadvantages
experienced by the people of Australia. The higher the person has his socioeconomic position
then more elevated is the health condition. Depression can cause a tremendous effect on the
social life of the people in Australia (Wahlbeck, 2015). Most of the people are suffering from
the depression are affected by mental illness due to their consumption of alcohol and
cannabis. Through the report, it is shown that the worst mental health in the recent years was
twofold as likely to live in a poor environment. Behavioural risk factors like the consumption
of alcohol, using the illicit drugs and not getting enough exercises can cause a significant
issue in the depression in Australia. Depression is expressed across various population groups
in Australia. Depression is believed to be highly prevalent in the Aboriginal and the Torres
Strait Islander. The problems which are faced by those population groups are trauma, grief
and sorrow. In the aboriginal group of people are experiencing sexual, domestic violence and
physical abuse. All this led to the tremendous depression in the population groups.
Behavioural risk factors are also linked to the employment status of people of aboriginal
people in Australia (Brown et al., 2013). It changes the socio-economic position of the
country. Aboriginal people witness the pain and bitterness from their old memories. Health
outcomes include whether a mental illness like depression gets worse or better, what is the
total cost of the care and how satisfied are the patients when they get care. Introduction with
the primary care which access to better care that eventually improves the total health
consequences and lowers costs (Trompetter et al., 2017).. Improvement of the patients
experiencing care, decreasing the per capita cost of healthcare and improving the health of
population can improve the health outcomes in Australia.
Gender and human rights
Gender expects the nation to guarantee that wellbeing arrangement, projects,
administrations and conveyance models are receptive to the necessities of ladies, men, young

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ladies and young men in the entirety of their assorted variety. Gender refers to the socially
developed characteristics of men and women, like the principles, roles and connections of
between assemblies of women and men. It shifts from one society to the other soiety. While
the vast majority are considered either female or male, they are educated with suitable
standards and practices which include how they should connect with others of the same or
opposite sex inside the family units, networks and workplaces. Whenever people or
gatherings donot "fit" set up gender standards they frequently oppose disgrace, unfair social
avoidance – all of which unfavourably affect the health of the people. It is imperative to be
gentle to various personalities that do not fit into twofold female or male sex classes. Gender
standards and relations impact individuals' helplessness to several comfort circumstances and
diseases, and it influences their satisfaction in physical well-being, mental health and success.
WHO, the world health organisation has supported the meetings and the performance
indicators which is explained in detail in the United Nations System-wide Action Plan to the
gender quality and the women empowerment. (Wong et al., 2017)
Health promotion to the Aboriginal people
Health promotion methodologies are yet to amplify the unexplored asset nature gives,
which includes the advantage of nature contact as a health promotion interference for the
depressed population. Health promotion activities which are performed in the aboriginal
people are The Halls Creek Community Families Programme. The health promotion involves
in the evaluation of the role of the nurse to support the aboriginal people who are living in a
remote area. The main consequences of the promotion activity is to propose the welfares for
Aboriginal peer sustenance workers from the enabling role of the child health nurse (Munns
& Walker, 2015).
The method offers not just an expansion of prevailing health promotion and
counteractive action exercises, but it also offers the ground for the socio-ecological advance

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to the community healthiness that unites environmental sustainability (Anderson & Kohler,
2015). The Ottawa Charter for the health promotion recognized the significance of
environments supporting health which states the link between the people and their respective
environment. The health promotion intervention incorporates an immediate spotlight on
mental health like depression and anxiety symptoms.
Positive mental health and socio-ecological model
Positive mental health is a program which is there to help all the Australians
especially those who needs psychological treatment. Several aspects and models are produced
to understand the concept of positive mental health. Through the methods of positive health
programme, the vulnerable individual life can be converted to meaningful growth. The
positive mental health programme staffs provide mental health assessment, supervising,
monitoring and contributing to care planning to the people of Australia who are having
depression. Positive mental health programme has a team of nurses, clinical directors and
psychologist who are specialised in the depression and anxiety management. Positive mental
health can be conceptualized as a subject of feeling prosperity (Swearer & Hymel, 2015). The
programme formulated a scale to measure the negative and positive aspects of depression in
particularly to the group of people. Later work investigating the definition and determinants
of personal prosperity proposes that it has more impact on nature than nature applies to it.
Psychotherapy programme can be implemented to the people who are having depression. The
psychoanalytical approach promotes positive mental health criteria to the people of Australia
as the person’s capacity to use their internal energy for understanding in sexual, intellectual
and emotional domains.
Socio-ecological factors are associated with depression in Australia. According to
Fletcher et al., (2017) the treatment of those with depression must not exist in a void. In its
place, by investing SMS based, cooperative telephone related support system and mobile

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optimised for patients delivered by mental fitness facilities to patients, both studies explains
how the technological services might support the various interactions between the families
and patients. In the depression issue Price-Robertson, Obradovic, and Morgan (2017)
challenge the idea of independence understood in numerous recuperation models. They do
this by concentrating on social associations through which individual change happens. In
their model, recovery forms are distributed inside a relational system, rather than living inside
one person. The researcher describes the social forces and multiple communities that have an
impact on depression prevention, intervention and promotion. Platell, Cook, and Martin
(2017) identified the problems faced by the young people of Australia when assessing mental
health services. One of the several processes generated from their study was for the learning
centres and to play a cruical role in the early interference of young people’s comfort (Calear
et al., 2018).
Conclusion
It can be concluded hereby that it is essential to recognize that depression is a
complicated condition which changes on the basis of severity. It is noted that antidepressant
function very well for some of the individuals. It is recorded that in Australia 45% of the
people face the mental condition or the mental illness in their whole lifetime. Social factors
can undermine or strengthen the health of individuals. However, good mental health is the
wellbeing of the people of Australia. In order to understand the mental health of the group
health promotion activities is performed. The health promotion activity incorporates
immediate attention for the people with mental illness. The objective and convention of
public health also, wellbeing advancement can be connected similarly as helpfully in the field
of emotional well-being as they have been in irresistible disease. Thus, the report in this issue
draws on several, interconnecting levels between individuals, organisations, relatives and the
community.

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