Health and Indigenous Australian Peoples: Assessment 1 Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of health and social-emotional wellbeing among Indigenous Australians, focusing on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. It examines the impact of various health issues, including social determinants like low income and unemployment, on their quality of life and access to healthcare. The report highlights the importance of social and emotional wellbeing, encompassing physical, community, demonstrative, ethnic, and spiritual happiness. It analyzes challenges faced by Indigenous Australians, such as institutional discrimination and the effects of historical events, and explores the implications of mental health and suicide rates. The report references scholarly articles to support its findings, emphasizing the need for improved healthcare services and policies that address the unique needs of Indigenous communities.

Health and indigenous Australian people

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
The health and indigenous Australian people is always a contemporary part of discussion
that is related with health factor that affect quality of health as well their living. In term of
Australian indigenous people, the people of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander that they
suffer various health issue and also they face the issue in taking service of health from health and
social care sector (Bingham and et. al., 2019). In this, the discussion is based on social and
emotional wellbeing of people especially indigenous Australian people. Therefore, it is also
analysed that the study makes understanding towards life of people who is indigenous and living
in Australia such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Greenwood, 2019).
MAIN BODY
As per the discussion, in my consent the Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous
Australian people that is directly proportional to health of people. For indigenous people, I
analyse that decent health is referring as the more than to show the absenteeism of illness or
sickness. In my perspective the notion which include physical, community, demonstrative, ethnic
and spiritual happiness for the both where separate and the public is assumed (Hueffer,
Ehrlander, Etz, and Reynolds, 2019). As per the mode of discussion, I feel that social and
emotional wellbeing is defined as comprehensive foundation of physical as well mental health
for indigenous people usually taking Australian people into the consideration. It is showing
aspect of universal concept that encompasses the position of assembly to term of land, nation,
devoutness and origin and how these affect the comfort of discrete and the civic is assumed
(Wylie, and McConkey, 2019). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people show their
experience of social and emotional wellbeing that is different across various cultural and social
group. As per this, the notion of common and demonstrative security is well recognising that the
person wellbeing is usually affected by the social determinant of health that take participation in
rendering quality of health as well as affect the care and support due to the social determinant
such as low income, unemployment and so on (Poelina, 2020).
As per my thought and feeling indigenous Australian people have poor access to service of
healthcare due to unfairness of administration strategies, institutional discrimination, the effect of
settlement and other associated with past events. Social and emotional wellbeing is well not
defined that create the aspect which is associated with definite mental health and mental illness,
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but they can interact and affect each other. The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people, Mental health and Social and Emotional wellbeing which is
established in 2017 and 2023 that recognise the distinction and proposes the model of social and
emotional wellbeing with the concern with indigenous Australian people (Redvers,
Marianayagam, and Blondin, 2019).
For 2018-2019 that is based on the self-required survey that show the response which is
showing an estimated 24 percent of people with indigenous especially Australian which is well
reported to having fraction of mental health as per proper diagnosis. In my terms, the indigenous
people having the diagnosis of mental health or behavioural condition and 3 in 10 approx. 31
percent of indigenous adult is well reported with high and very high term that showing the level
of psychological distress (Reid, Cormack, and Paine, 2019). Furthermore, the disruption to the
family and kinship connection that usually include inter-generational trauma that is well
connected with the enhanced rate of suicide and show the behaviour which is well connected
with suicidal behaviour in indigenous communities. In this, indigenous people especially
Australian, they face various fraction of health factor that affect their living which directly
impact the health and wellbeing of indigenous people Australian people (Strakosch, 2019).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is also analysed that social and emotional wellbeing of
indigenous Australian people is usually affected due to poor access of health. The people is
usually faces the issue which associated with health inequalities and other factor such as social
determinant of health. As per this, the study on the topic is well focus on comprehensive
statement of indigenous Australian people that they suffer a lot due to the change in government
policies and other factor directly affect their social and emotional wellbeing. In addition, the
study helps to gain in depth knowledge regards with indigenous Australian people.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bingham, B., Moniruzzaman, A., Patterson, M., Distasio, J., Sareen, J., O’Neil, J. and Somers,
J.M., 2019. Indigenous and non-Indigenous people experiencing homelessness and
mental illness in two Canadian cities: A retrospective analysis and implications for
culturally informed action. BMJ open, 9(4), p.e024748.
Greenwood, M., 2019, January. Modelling change and cultural safety: A case study in northern
British Columbia health system transformation. In Healthcare Management Forum (Vol.
32, No. 1, pp. 11-14). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.
Hueffer, K., Ehrlander, M., Etz, K. and Reynolds, A., 2019. One health in the circumpolar
North. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 78(1), p.1607502.
Poelina, A., 2020. A coalition of hope! A regional governance approach to indigenous Australian
cultural wellbeing. In Located research (pp. 153-180). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
Redvers, N., Marianayagam, J. and Blondin, B.S., 2019. Improving access to Indigenous
medicine for patients in hospital-based settings: a challenge for health systems in
northern Canada. International journal of circumpolar health, 78(1), p.1577093.
Reid, P., Cormack, D. and Paine, S.J., 2019. Colonial histories, racism and health—The
experience of Māori and Indigenous peoples. Public Health, 172, pp.119-124.
Strakosch, E., 2019. The technical is political: settler colonialism and the Australian Indigenous
policy system. Australian Journal of Political Science, 54(1), pp.114-130.
Wylie, L. and McConkey, S., 2019. Insiders’ insight: Discrimination against Indigenous peoples
through the eyes of health care professionals. Journal of racial and ethnic health
disparities, 6(1), pp.37-45.
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