Health Promotion Project Plan: Older Indigenous People and Vision Loss

This health promotion project plan addresses the increasing prevalence of vision impairment among older Indigenous Australians. It outlines the problem, highlighting the disproportionately higher rates of vision loss in this population compared to non-Indigenous Australians. The plan's aims include providing primary care, improving access to optometry services, early diagnosis, and financial assistance for eye care. The activities involve stakeholder engagement with government and local hospitals to facilitate data collection, organize eye check-up camps, and provide post-surgery care. The plan also emphasizes the importance of regular community-oriented work and stakeholder collaboration for evaluation. The project aims to address refractive index correction, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, and trachoma, considering the social context of vision health and factors contributing to eye issues within the Indigenous community. The plan also suggests future directions for improving eye health among older Indigenous populations.

Health Promotion and target group
Health Promotion Activity
• Provide proper careful framework and necessary
administrations required after the surgery to get better
results of cataract treatment.
• Providing case the board and building up help jobs to help
patients to explore the referral procedure and access eye
care administrations and the clinic framework.
• Provide neighbourhood ophthalmology offices.
• Increase the careful limit at territorial emergency clinics
(low availability and accessibility of open ophthalmology
administrations
• Maintain synchronization between emergency clinic,
wellbeing and eye care administrations.
Australia's population lying in the age group of 65 and above is
continuously increasing and it could probably get doubled by
2057. With this growing population there is also a need to check
the health care necessities faced by this section of the population.
Among many health care problems vision lose has been covered in
this health care program. Vision lose cases are reports about three
times higher in the indigenous population as compared to the no
indigenous ones. According to a survey conducted by the National
Eye Health Survey (NEHS) it has been recorded that about 11% of
the people from the indigenous population suffer from vision lose
or blindness. Loss of vision leads to many social as well as
economic effects on the quality of life of an individual. It decreases
simple routine movement, working ability is reduced, also
imposes a life threatening risk on the affected individuals
(Hopkins, Sampson, Hendicott & Wood, 2016).
The health promotion project plan for older
people with vision impairment in
indigenous Australian population
Introduction
Every person obsesses their own abilities and resources, also these
differences would influence their ageing experience. However, the
changes in these demographical as well as social trends show their
impact on the situations of many indigenous Australians of old age
(O'Day, Smith, Muir & Turner, 2016. Although there is a growth
seen among the people of old age who are doing really well, like
living independently, participating in social events and gatherings,
having financial stability, but there are still many old age people
who thrive for help and support, who are largely dependent for
their food and shelter on various service providers (Foreman, Xie,
Keel, Taylor & Dirani, 2017).
Aims of Health Promotion
• Provide primary care which could diagnose near and far
sightedness with high accuracy.
• Provide well facilities to the individual in order to reach the
health care facilities with ease.
• Provide platforms where these vision impairments can be
diagnosed at an early age.
• Provide easy access to optometry services.
• Provide good funds in order to visit optometry services on the
basis of the individual needs.
• Provide great facilitating administrations at neighbourhood
emergency clinics to the meeting optometrist.
Health Promotion Evaluation
Government
• The government should be involved in taking responsibility for
devising policies related to the vision impairment among old
people.
• Developing mechanisms that involves the interactions between
different stakeholders and the individual.
Local hospitals
• They can help in collecting primary data on the number of cases
at a given time point.
• They can help in organising eye check-up camps.
Stakeholders
Conclusion
• Regular community oriented work that partners embrace.
This might be subsidized remotely by government as for
explicit results or projects, including joint effort among key
partners.
• Apart from jurisdictional governments, consistently
booked gatherings and casual trade among investors and
the Commonwealth Department of Health.
• Key area advisory groups, that create arrangement and
position explanations, and promoter to government.
• Resources created and shared by partner contribution in
workshops, round tables and gatherings..
This health promotion program would envelop refractive index
correction, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and trachoma among
old age indigenous individuals , which are the causes of most
of vision impairment in this old age indigenous group, social
setting of vision wellbeing, and the elements adding to eye
issues within indigenous individuals, including: rate and
pervasiveness information; remedy and weight of sickness the
aversion and the board of eye issues, taking into account
important projects, administrations, arrangements and
systems that address all aspects of eye soundness among
these individuals conceivable future bearings for improving the
eye soundness of old age indigenous population.
A vision to take care of
the vision
References
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Dirani, M. (2017). Sampling methodology and site selection in the
National Eye Health Survey: an Australian population-based
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Visual Profile of Queensland Indigenous Children. Optometry And
Vision Science, 93(3), 251-258. doi:
10.1097/opx.0000000000000797
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