Research Methods And Outcomes For Australian Indigenous Preterm Births

Thank you for taking time to read my letter. As a nursing student of University of Technology Sydney, I studied contemporary indigenous subject this semester. In this letter I want to illustrate 3 main social determinants of health that impact indigenous Australian health which I found and analysed during my recently study. And also offer some suggestion that could help the government improve aboriginal Australian mental health conditions in the future.

Discuss disparities related to ethnic and cultural groups relative to low birth weight infants and preterm births. Describe the impact of extremely low birth weight babies on the family and on the community (short-term and long-term, including economic considerations, on-going care considerations, and co-morbidities associated with prematurity). Identify at least one support service within your community for preterm infants and their family. Provide the link for your colleagues to view. Does the service adequately address needs of this population? Explain your answer.

The purpose of this report is to critically analyze the effect of the Australian assimilation policy on the current health status of the aboriginals through various factors such as education,

The following report will focus on the health plan Koolin Balit: Victorian Government strategic directions for Aboriginal health 2012-2022 (Koolin Balit). This report will firstly provide an overview of Koolin Balit and will discuss the selected health plan Key Priority Area Two: Healthy Childhood. The at-risks groups pre-school and primary school aged Aboriginal children affected by the priority area will then be discussed. There are three Determinants of Health (DOH) that will be focused on throughout the report, these being education, food (access to and distribution) and access to care and health services (Keleher & MacDougall, 2016). Evidence will be used throughout the report to support the DOH and discuss the relevance of the DOH to Key Priority Area Two: Healthy Childhood.

Discuss disparities related to ethnic and cultural groups relative to low birth weight infants and preterm births.

The following report will explain what “Koolin Balit” outlines and its specific objectives to reach the ultimate goal: to improve Aboriginal health in Victoria over the period of the next ten years, as a strategic administration conducted by the Victorian government. This report will then address one of its priority areas, “A healthy start to life” which is designated to improve the health conditions of Aboriginal mothers and their infants that are deemed two at-risk groups. Lastly, three specific determinants of health related to the specific priority area: early life, addiction and social support will be amplified how they connect with this priority area and related health outcomes for aboriginal babies.

-Race or ethnicity: Historically, minority populations in the United States have had higher rates of preterm delivery. In 2007, non-Hispanic White women accounted for the lowest number of preterm births in the United States, accounting for only 11.5% of all preterm births (MacDorman, 2011). In contrast, non-Hispanic Blacks, Puerto Ricans, American Indians and Hispanic women had preterm birth levels of 18.3%, 14.5%, 13.9% and 12.3% respectively (MacDorman, 2011). The Asian minority had the lowest risk at 10.9% (MacDorman, 2011). Some studies have attributed such significant differences to racial disparities in resources and health care (Dominguez, 2008; Vanderbilt & Wright, 2013). However, other studies such as Menon’s et al, which looked at differences in White versus Black women, suggest that racial disparities in preterm birth may

Methodology I plan on conducting an extensive literature review of existing papers on the social and economic determinants of health of Indigenous people in Australia. There could be limited work on the social determinants of health in Indigenous populations in Australia, I would hope to supplement this by looking at data from other countries with similar colonization histories. To answer the following guidance questions: - Are there particular social determinants of health in Australia’s indigenous population? - Is there a link between the current inequalities in health of indigenous people and historical issues like colonization? - Which health policies should be given priority to reduce health inequalities between the general population and Australia’s indigenous population?

Showing knowledge of up-to-date health practices is simply not enough. A nurse must have an adequate ability to research and discover current trends and best practices in his or her specific clinical setting (QSEN Institute, 2014). So, while creating this clinical practice project, a proficient knowledge of how to research for evidence-based

However, a study of mortality trends in the NT found that life expectancy at birth among Indigenous Australians in the NT has risen considerably between 1967 and 2006, increasing from 52.5 years for males and 53.9 years for females to around 60.2 years for males and 69.8 years for females. Over the same period, the gap between life expectancy for NT Indigenous females and NT non-Indigenous females narrowed due to a rapid improvement in the life expectancy of NT Indigenous females, while the gap between NT Indigenous males and NT non-Indigenous males widened due to the slow improvement in the life expectancy in NT Indigenous males (Wang et al. 2010b). Declines in infant mortality accounted for a large proportion of the increase in life expectancy for the NT Indigenous population between the late 1960s and mid-1980s, especially for males (Wilson et al. 2007). From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, declines in mortality at ages 45 years and over were responsible for the majority of life expectancy gains for both Indigenous males and females in the

Pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders women currently experience more illness, disability and injury than non Indigenous Australians pregnant women, and these avoidable health inequalities arise because of the circumstances in which the indigenous women grow, live, work and age. This essay will discuss the health Pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in remote areas and how there health is impacted by social determinants of health. The first part of the essay will contain literature reviews on the relevance, authority, timeliness and perspective of five resources that contain information on pregnant aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women remote areas. The second Part of the essay with discuss the two critical

Among the various problems faced by the Aboriginal people include children’s health issues. These include low birth weight accompanied by an infant mortality rate that is almost three times that of the national average; such a figure results to 15.2 deaths of Aborigine infants as compared to 5 from other communities per 1,000 births (Thomas, 2003). Other factors connected to low birth weight include that of an enhanced risk for consequent diseases during puberty and adulthood that may lead to neonatal death. Low birth weight of the infant is associated with a slow growth rate and short pregnancy length, with Aboriginal women noted to have a 12.4% chance to have a low birth weight baby as compared to 6.2% for a non-Aboriginal woman (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008).

Nurses are educated and trained on the development and use of evidence based research. Evidence based research is therefore incorporated into the daily routine of nursing care than expected.

Some of the two research evidence sources that were considered for the study include: Bettany-Saltikov, J. (2012) How to do a systematic literature review in nursing: a step-by-step

Pregnancy is normally the best and the happiest stage of any woman, but it can also be uncertain because anything can go wrong if you do not know exactly what to do. In order to understand the reasons of why Preterm Birth occurs, it is important to know what it is and how risky it can be. Preterm Birth is also known as Premature labor which mainly begins after “20 weeks but before 37 completed week’s gestations. Approximately 12.9 million babies worldwide are born too early every year representing an incidence of PTB of 9.6%” (Berghella, pp. 2, 8). Baby Center Medical Advisory Board says that about 12 percent of babies