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The health of Aboriginal people in Canada is both a tragedy and a crisis (Aboriginal Affairs and North Development Canada, 2010). Aboriginals have a higher rate of death among aboriginal babies, twice the national average, higher rate of Infectious diseases example gastrointestinal infections to tuberculosis, and chronic and degenerative diseases such as cancer and heart disease are affecting more aboriginal people than they once did (AANDC, 2010). Availability of important medical facility is not enough to accommodate the growing medical needs of Aboriginals. A socioeconomic and cultural issue also hinders the access of aboriginals to access health care in the community.

Another social determinant of the aboriginal health is the poor compatibility linking the core values of their customary health beliefs and the modern health system. The westernized medical system is mostly interested in the detection and treatment of diseases and illnesses. On the other hand, the traditional aboriginal medication seeks to offer a meaningful justification for illnesses and reacts to the family, personal, and community issues related to the illness (Broome, 2002). This explains why

I’ve come to understand why having access to institutions or facilities that can provide adequate sight and vision treatments is necessary. Being in America we’re blinded by an abundance of luxuries. We take the small things in life for granted and feel as if they should be handed to us with a silver spoon. What about the child in India who doesn’t have the opportunity to visit care centers to examine his or her eyes? What about the homeless and orphan children in Russia that can’t afford to see a doctor about their blurred vision? Who’s going to help out the child of the native lands that lives too far from the nearest medical care clinic but just severely injured his or her eye? All of these things are real life situations and real life problems that less developed countries face as they struggle to obtain funding or even educators who can routinely and professionally provide the necessary

As health professionals, we must look beyond individual attributes of Indigenous Australians to gain a greater understanding and a possible explanation of why there are such high rates of ill health issues such as alcoholism, depression, abuse, shorter life expectancy and higher prevalence of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and obesity in our indigenous population. Looking at just the individual aspects and the biomedical health model, we don’t get the context of Aboriginal health. This is why we need to explore in further detail what events could have created such inequities in Aboriginal health. Other details that we should consider are the historical and cultural factors such as, ‘terra nullius’, dispossession and social

According to Vass, Mitchell, and Dhurrkay (2011), the incidence of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, renal disease, cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive airway disease among Indigenous Australians is quite significant. In addition, the presence of mental health conditions and infectious diseases such as scabies, skin infections and rheumatic fever has also attributed considerably to the disease burden (Vass, et al, 2011). As a disability support worker, I had the opportunity to look after indigenous clients. With my experience working with them, it shed some light on me with how they value their culture and gave me an insight on their view about health concerning issues. I had my misconceptions about how aboriginal people

The colonial occupation and subsequent oppression has a greatly impact to the health of indigenous population across Australia. There is still lapses in regards to biomedical and ethnomedical models of health that still needed to work on in order to provide the quality care that is culturally appropriate and acceptable by the indigenous

“The status of Indigenous health in contemporary Australia is a result of historic factors as well as contemporary socio-economic issues” (Hampton & Toombs, 2013, p. 1).

This essay will discuss the structure of Australia’s healthcare system, known as Medicare. It will also discuss the role of the Government and Non-Government agencies, and Medicare’s strengths and weaknesses. It will also address the health and illness issues that aboriginal and people from overseas face, and also the significance of implementing best practice and quality management

The inequalities in today’s indigenous communities are still strongly evident. Heard, Khoo & Birrell (2009), argued that while there has been an attempt in narrowing the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians, a barrier still exists in appropriate health care reaching indigenous people. The Indigenous people believe, health is more than the individual, it is

I have recently began to shadow Dr. Richards, an ophthalmologist. I have always had an interest in medical care relating to the eyes since I have developed a good relationship with my employer, Dr. Thomas.

Richard Ligon was from England and moved to Barbados in 1647. There, he lived amongst slaves, servants, and planters for approximately ten years. He witnessed many forms of slavery and paid close attention to how the different slave groups were being treated, in comparison to one another. In his article, he compares the living conditions of the slaves to the servants. Ligon also discusses what their motives and methods of resistance to their master’s authority are. In his work, it is also evident that cultural adaptations were made between the European and African inhabitants of Barbados. He demonstrates this by going into detail about how the slaves expressed their African culture through their music, religion, and recreation.

Clearly, more needs to done on the prevention of trachoma in the indigenous population of Australia and this is why further funding is necessary as well as additional nursing services available in these remote areas to help educate and prevent trachoma. All individuals deserve to have appropriate health care and with Australia being a developed country, the fact that trachoma still plagues our citizens is illogical. This become even more illogical as Australia is the only developed country to still have blindness caused by trachoma. Although, The Fred-Hollow’s Foundation are taking the correct steps to help prevent this disease, there is evidently still issues that need to be

Our eyes are maybe the most valuable sense organ we have. Whether you are an understudy or an expert, having great visual perception is a need. Henceforth, it is inescapable that we have to take unique consideration of our eyes. Here emerges the requirement for a decent ophthalmologist, a man to whom we can endow the obligation of nurturing our most important sense organ. It is not a simple errand to find a decent eye pro in all territories over the globe. Be that as it may, people in Michigan need not stress. Finding a decent Flint eye specialist requires barely exertion because of the simple accessibility of Flint vision care. There are different deciding element when it comes selecting the eye specialist who suits your necessities and is

I hope to become an Optometrist because vision is such an essential trait for living things, and allows for them to progress even if the other body parts stop working. I have always been interested in the medical field, and will work endlessly in college to obtain my degrees: a Bachelor’s in Biology, with emphasis in Physiology, along with a Doctorate of Optometry. Afterwards, I hope to build and strengthen my career, gain experience, and travel to a developing nation to aid its citizens. I look forward to commuting to a foreign location alongside a group of doctors, whom all share the same goal as me. With them, I aim to provide free eye examinations, low-vision therapy, and eye-surgery to the needy. These clinics will allow for my group to assist the people who either cannot support the cost of the treatment or dwell in a remote

Opthalmology as a special branch of medical science established itself quite seriously in the Victorian period. Wilkie Collins’ Poor Miss Finch (1872) is a ‘medical surgical novel’, and the surgery is operated on the eye. Beneath the story