The Problem Of Poor Health

Your GP can assess whether you have incontinence, decide which type of incontinence you have, give general advice on controlling symptoms of incontinence, provide information on pelvic floor exercises and bladder retraining, and give treatment for incontinence with prescribed medicines. If lifestyle changes and treatments don't solve the problem, your GP can refer you to a continence adviser or specialist.

The health of the United States has been declining in recent years. More individuals are suffering from health issues such as obesity and high cholesterol. This is particularly true of Know County in Maine. There are many health concerns in Know County. In order to address these problems a community program called ACHIEVE reached out to the YMCA to help improve the health of the area. In order to assess the success of this program it is important to understand the area in which it is implemented and the details of the program.

This essay will discuss the first people’s health as a consequential issue to the Australian community and followed by the discussion of various policies that been introduced by the Australian government to fill up health gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. This essay will first analyze the impact of history and colonization on first peoples ' health and then it demonstrates the how different policy eras has affected to creating first peoples health is important, in turn highlighting how health practitioners can help to build a strong relationship within first peoples on a different basis. This essay will close with the important strategies that may improve the health care system of the first peoples in Australia. The history and colonization had a greater impacts on First people’s health in Australia.

“Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have a greater amount of disadvantage and significantly more health problems than the non-Aboriginal & Torres strait Islander population in Australia”

What might explain these statistics, or at least serve as correlations, are the determinants of health. If the reader is not familiar with the determinants of health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides an explanation of them. In essence, these health determinants are factors that have significant impact upon one’s health. The main determinants for health are: socioeconomic status, where the rich and upper classes tend to be healthier; education, where low education is linked to stress, lower self-esteem and poorer health choices; environment, where purer air, cleaner water, healthier workplaces and better housing contribute to being healthier; health services, where access to services and proper equipment all contribute to health; as well as gender, genetics, culture and social behaviour (WHO, 2016). As there are so health determinants, where essays can be written on one alone, it is not within the scope of this essay to critically analyse each determinant for Indigenous Australians. With this in mind, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) documents an extensive list of data for Indigenous health, most of which discusses issues which are out-of-scope for this analysis. What is relevant, however, is outlined next. Across the board, in 2011, the Indigenous population was younger than the non-Indigenous population due to high fertility and mortality rates with those

Conditions of birth and people’s growth, lifestyles, occupations and age strongly influence their health. This essay focuses on children between the ages of zero to 19 and examines what the social determinants of health are. Firstly, it attempts to analyse poverty, family violence, addiction and the impacts on the health of younger New Zealanders who are exposed to those determinants. Secondly, strategies, initiatives and prevention services are identified at national, regional and local levels to investigate what the government and other non-government organisations are doing to ensure that the rights of children are being upheld. Children deserve to have the best start in life to enable healthy growth and development of their own special skills and talents. They need warm, healthy homes to live in, good nutritious food to give them energy to grow and learn, and opportunities for education, along with other activities that help them progress through life. They need the support and care of their parents, whanau and communities that have their best interests at heart.

This case study focuses on the health status of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. There are different factors that impact their health for example social factors and health problems, in the community some of the people fail to seek medical attention due to difference in beliefs and culture. This has made majority of the people to live undiagnosed illness. In this case after the review of systems of Uncle Jim, he has many problems concerning his health which calls for immediate medical attention but this has been disabled due to poverty and ignorance especially concerning nutrition and effects of smoking which has resulted in many other severe medical problems.

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

Although a lack of high-quality data limits an accurate assessment of the health disparities between indigenous and nonindigenous populations in many countries, the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians ' health status and care has been widely documented6. The causes of the health status inequalities are multi-factorial; with the major contributors related to social and environmental determinants of indigenous health7.

Poor health and its impacts have been an issue in many reservations. Proper health is important for living a happy life. Being healthy goes beyond staying “fit”. Good health helps lower the risk of certain conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. It can also help with increasing lifespan, wellbeing, and reduces stress.

Indigenous people are affected by a number of health inequalities that stem from social determinants. There is a direct proven link between the ill-health that Indigenous people have and are experiencing and the health inequalities they face as a result of these social determinants. These health inequalities are classified into three groups that consist of historical, political, social and economic contexts. Macro factors that consist of community infrastructure, resources, systems and capacities; as well as micro factors including health behaviours, physical and social environments. Social determinants effect an extensive array of health dimensions that lead to problematic health complications, health behaviours and poor health management. For instance, living in conditions of low income have been linked to increased illness and disability, which is linked to reduced opportunities to obtain and retain meaningful employment, thus exacerbating poverty (Maddison, 2009, p. 108). There is extensive research and studies that have found individuals and communities that experience disparities in the social determinants of health not only experience a burden of health problems, but they have limited access to resources that could potentially improve these problems (Reading & Wien, 2009, p. 9). How these social determinants impact and also effect on these areas of health for Indigenous people, which produces health problems that lead to conditions and environments that result in

Overall, there are twelve social determinants of health in Canada. Nonetheless, this paper will focus on the development between two of these when considered together. The two determinants of health that will be discussed in this paper are known as income and social status and education and literacy. Also, because education and literacy can be considered closely with employment, then this paper will moderately recognize a third social determinant of health, which is known as employment and working conditions. Since people are now living longer and, consequently, may also have to work longer this can create problematic issues for individuals whose health is declining.

My definition of social determinants are the aspects of life that we as individuals often have no control over including where we are born and our upbringing which affects our controllable choices later in life such as living conditions, aging and our work environments ("About social determinants of health", n.d.). It’s not till I really consider this definition my understanding stays neutral but my perception begins to realise how these determinants encompass and affect every aspect of your life with regards to access to resources including transport to and from work or health care or, growing up in Brisbane, affluent areas had beautiful fresh produce unlike low socioeconomic areas. An interesting analogy when you consider it’s multifaceted,

The arrival of the Europeans caused many changes to the Māori society between 1642 and prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Europeans brought with them many things to trade; however, they contributed to fatal impact in New Zealand as they brought with them weapons which killed a lot of people and enslaved many more as more and more Māori competed for weapons. By 1830 the Māori had learnt a lot about the world. They had learnt the skills of trade with Europeans and the Māori had missionaries that taught them how to read, write and communicate with the outside world. New Zealand was no longer an unknown and isolated land

The Maori, “Children of Heaven”, are the indigenous people of New Zealand. It has been thought that Polynesian navigator Kupe, discovered New Zealand in 950 AD, and named the island Aotearoa, “Land of the long white cloud”.1 The Maori migrated to New Zealand from the tropical islands of