Bendigo Region Public Health Report: Obesity in Indigenous Adults

This report addresses the critical issue of obesity among adult Indigenous populations, particularly focusing on the Bendigo region. It highlights that over 70% of Indigenous adults aged 50-65 are affected, with women disproportionately impacted. The report identifies inappropriate social wealth distribution and racial discrimination as key factors in the mal-healthcare structure. It emphasizes the importance of innovative public health practices, including medical camps, rallies, and street theatre, to promote awareness and provide treatment. The report outlines healthcare activities such as proper medication, diet charts, and healthy physical activities. It also details the goals of public health promotion, management strategies, and the involvement of local authorities and healthcare professionals. Mitigation measures and evidence-based treatments are discussed, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes and advocating for supportive healthcare policies.

Obesity level of adult indigenous people Importance of public health promotion
 Obesity defines weighing more than average weight
 More than 70% of the adult indigenous people aging 50
to 65 are vastly affected by obesity
 BMI level of these indigenous people is more than
30kg/m^2
 Women are mostly affected by obesity
 The overweight ratio of women and men among the
indigenous is 17:14
 Inappropriate distribution of social wealth is the ultimate
reason behind the mal-healthcare structure of the
indigenous people.
 Racial discrimination has been identified as the key
problem of healthcare development among the
indigenous people
 Healthcare promotion is important in the Bendigo region
in order to develop the healthcare structure of
indigenous people of that region
 Innovative, motivating and leading public health
practices should be the best option for the healthcare
promotion
 Healthcare promotion processes to strengthen the health determinants of
the indigenous people
 Healthcare activities include proper medication, providing proper diet
chart, rehabilitation and advising on healthy physical activities
 Enhances the abilities to develop the strength to cop up with the
healthcare problems
 Helps to quicken the obesity treatment and assures guaranteed
interventions from obesity.
 Healthcare activities would support the indigenous Australians to
convince on evidence-based treatments and demonstrate a healthy
workforce
 The success factors of healthcare promotion would motivate the
indigenous people on capacity building
 The healthcare promotional activities would be supportive of the
advocacy and development of healthcare policies for indigenous people
 The healthcare members would support and volunteer healthcare
assistance to the indigenous people of Bendigo.
Goals and aims of public health promotion Public Health promotional events
 Public healthcare promotion is done for the betterment
of the physical and mental health.
 Risk factors must be identified and located through
promotional activities
 Obesity level of the indigenous people would be
checked in the promotional activities
 The promotion of health wellbeing of the indigenous
people would be done
 The root reason for the obesity will be measured
through regular medical checkup
 Assurance of the participation of all the factors
 The Public Health promotion management is essential for the proper
coordination of the project. The Different management strategies
include coordination with the local public health department of the
Bendigo Island. For any promotional activities, the coordination with
the local authority is very important. The necessary Events that will take
place in the promotional programme are mentioned below.
 Medical Camp: A medical camp will be organized in the local health
facility of Bendigo where the indigenous will have the privilege of free
treatment. In the medical camp, medical professionals will be present
who will talk about the ill effects of obesity. The medical camp is totally
done for the people to be aware of the situation. The Medical
professionals of the locality are invited to the programme. The
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 Medical evidence must be preserved properly for
future use
 Interaction with the social, economic and
psychological; factors must be regarded.
participation of the local authority is also valuable.
 The Social workers and social organization that is performing this kind
of awareness programme are also invited to give any inputs so that the
health promotional programme can be a success.
 There will be a speech given by the officers of the public health
department of Bendigo addressing the problem of obesity.
 Mitigation measures will be discussed by the health professionals so that
the community people can save themselves and their family from this
problem. The mitigation measures are very important and it should be
followed by the community people. The Message given by this
promotional activity is Obesity is the curse of the society.
 The Main theme of the health promotional activity is obesity is the
curse of the society. It is the responsibility of the health professional to
make the community people understand about the curse.
 Rally – After the medical camp there will be a rally with slogans about
the ill effects of obesity so it can reach out to a wider audience in the
community. Pamphlets will be distributed which will contain the ill
effects of obesity. Pamphlets will be distributed to the community
people which are a written document. These Pamphlets will contain
different messages about the ill effects of obesity and the mitigation
strategies need to be taken to fight against the Obesity.
Street Theatre and Traditional Cultural events- A street theatre will be
performed where the main theme will be Obesity the Curse of the society. It

will be followed by a tradition programme from the community which will
excite the community people and they will participate in the programme.
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