Health Care And Rehabilitation Needs

Local Aboriginal community control in health is important as this classifies the Aboriginal entire health. Thus, it allows Aboriginal communities to find out their own relationships, protocols and procedures. NACCHO represents local Aboriginal community control at a national level. By making sure that Aboriginal people have a greater right of entry to valuable health care within Australia. A coordinated holistic response is provided by NACCHO from the community sector. Therefore, it is promoting for culturally respectful and approaches to needs requirement. This shows the improvement in health and wellbeing through ACCHSs with better outcome.

The prevalence of diabetes is increasing in Canada, and is growing health concern. This increase is especially apparent in Canadian Aboriginal population where the estimated prevalence of diabetes is three to five times higher than in the general Canadian population. Because of the risk of several health complications such as coronary heart diseases, neuropathy, eye damage, kidney failure, and peripheral arterial diseases, diabetes is a one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. Developing health complications increases when diabetes is undiagnosed and represents unseen, but important burden with significant long-term impact on the people’s health status. First Nations individuals have more diabetes risk factors and suffer more diabetes-related health complications than non-Aboriginals. Therefore, accurate data on diabetes prevalence are essential for government, health care and research organizations.

Diabetes is a growing health concern within Aboriginal communities across Canada, it is a health concern that is often an underlying condition secondary to many other health issues and often goes undiagnosed or untreated. Many individuals within these communities choose to leave their diabetes untreated until it becomes life threatening and becomes too late to treat or control. According to Health Canada (2013), Aboriginal peoples who are living on reserves have a rate of diabetes that is three to five times higher as compared to Non-Aboriginal Canadians (Para. 1). The growing rate of diabetes is especially concerning amongst the Inuit communities, and is a growing concern; the rate of diabetes within this community is expected to steadily increase over the coming years from contributing factors such as lack of activity, poor nutrition and obesity (Health Canada, 2013). For these reasons alone it is important to raise awareness and educate these communities about diabetes and healthy lifestyle so that positive steps can be taken in order to maintain healthy living. Aboriginal peoples living in Canada have higher rates of diabetes as compared to non Aboriginal Canadians, and of the two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, the latter is more prevalent in First Nations communities (Brooks, Darroch, & Giles, 2013). With diabetes uncontrolled, an individual can come across many health problems such as poor circulation, foot ulcers, and sometimes even amputation (American

Inequality in health is one of the most controversial topics within Australian Health Care. Inequality in relation to health is defined as being “differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups” (World Health Organization, 2012). Within Australia inequality affects a wide range of population groups; however Indigenous Australians are most widely affected therefore this paper will focus on how inequality has impacted their health. Research shows that Australia’s Indigenous people suffer from a multitude of social and economic inequalities such as inadequate access to nutritious food and health care, being socially and

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

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

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) acts as the representative of all the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organizations in Victoria (Australia) where it provides guidance on the Aboriginal Health policies. Furthermore, the organization supports local initiatives, but it does not contain any health services. The organization is involved in numerous programs that aimed at promoting member organizations in providing excellent healthcare which may include sexual health, chronic care, maternity and mental health. This article gives an overview of the policies that are made and have an impact on the Aboriginal people’s health and also the impact it has on other people’s health (Fletcher, 2011). Furthermore,

If an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander obtain skills that enable them to be empowered and self reliant over their health, they will find it easier to make informed decisions regarding health. As a result Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people will be exposed to better health.

Despite enjoying excellent health and receiving comprehensive and universal healthcare access, Canada has seen continuing healthcare inequality especially among those people living at or below the poverty level and those who are members of the Aboriginal Peoples. The greatest impact of this disparity is evidenced through earlier mortality rates and greater incidences of injury and illness. Nowhere in Canada is this more true than among the Aboriginal Peoples, who, for example, have the highest rate or and risk for Type 2 Diabetes. This risk costs Canada an additional 18 billion dollars CAD every year (Strategic Initiatives and Innovations Directorate, 2011).

Rehabilitation, what is rehabilitation? Rehabilitation is the action of restoring someone to a normal life through training and therapy after incarcerated, addiction or illness. Rehabilitation can be used for an offender who has committed a crime and is incarcerated, someone who is struggling with addiction or illness. Rehabilitation was originated in 1779 by the British Government as part of the Penitentiary Act, rehabilitation would consist of punishment along with treatment for the offenders. (Benjamin Disraeli 2004). The purpose of rehabilitation is to treat the offender in order for the offender to return to society and be able to contribute, rehabilitation is also a punishment for breaking a law.

One of the six key priorities for targeted work by PHNs is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream health services and national health data sets is a fundamental barrier to achieving health equality for all Australians. The Indigenous population in Australia have historically had, and continue to have significantly worse health outcomes than the general Australian population.

Aboriginal people have the highest rates of ill health than any other group in Australia. The Australian Bureau Of Statistic (ABS) estimates that there are between 418,800 and 476,900 indigenous people in Australia (Better Health Channel: Aboriginal Health Issues ). Improving the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has been a longstanding challenge for governments in Australia. Indigenous people as a whole, experience disproportionate levels of disadvantage and poorer health compared with other Australians, there is a definite relationship between social disadvantages experienced by Indigenous people and their current health status. These social disadvantages, directly related to dispossession and characterised by

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequity occurs across all health areas and many areas of health continue to get worse. Whilst there have been recent gains, the gap is widening as the health of other Australians improves faster. With the gap between aboriginals growing cancer rates has become a major issue among the indigenous community. The crisis facing Indigenous health has a long and complex history. It continues largely as a result of decades of government inaction and a continuing lack of appropriate medical services.

When addressing the first standard of practice, nurses work towards promoting health (CHNC, 2011). As CHNs attempt to work with the available assets to improve the health and wellness of Aboriginals with diabetes mellitus (Taylor, Usher, & McDermott, 2013), they utilize a wide variety of treatment and prevention options that relate to numerous health-promoting aspects based on primary healthcare (Smith, Van Herk, & Rahaman, 2012). For this demographic, moving primary healthcare forward is crucial and could involve the implementation of culturally appropriate initiatives that allow CHNs to invoke various methods to promote the physical health of impoverished communities (Health Canada, 2013b). These health promoting methods may utilize the ADI for funding in order to provide nutritious food, fitness equipment such as ski poles for walking and burning more calories (Gormley, 2012), and various diabetes-based screening and testing tools (Health Canada,

The Diabetes Australia is an informative website providing in-depth information about the types of diabetes and ways that people can manage a healthy lifestyle with diabetes. The website discusses strategic plans and priorities of ways they can help people with diabetes. Each key element ranges from raising awareness nationally or globally, support programs, advocating healthy lifestyle within communities and increasing research funding.