Aims and Objectives
Discuss about the Gap In The Services For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Island.
According to human rights, each individual on this earth deserves the right to attain quality healthcare related to mental and physical health with proper access to healthcare services, food, shelter, sanitation healthy work related environment and clean atmosphere (Donnelly, 2013). However, due to political, social and economic factors, several gaps arises that prevent a section of the society to receive such rights. Despite governmental attempts to connect these people to the mainstream society, instances occur that detach them from the entire community hence, information, and policy oriented program cannot reach out to them (Hathaway, 2017). This section will be creating an outline of a forthcoming assignment in which, the gaps related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and their healthcare needs will be discussed. Further a process through which the information and the service can be provided to these people in overall community will be discussed and aims and objectives will be outlined.
The prime aims/objective of the assignment will be
- To report the gap present in the services for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s from a health perspective using a human right based approach.
- Further, the assignment will provide an outline the process of arranging a health campaign to fill the gap present in the healthcare needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
- This assignment will develop a long term comprehensive plan so that the needs, present inequalities and other existing disparities will be identified. Further it will help in understanding the health expectancy and healthcare related equalities between non-indigenous Australians and aboriginals within the society.
- Finally it will ensure collecting data from the previous researches to understand the extent to which these aboriginals and Torres strait islanders have been deprived of their healthcare needs.
For this purpose a literature review will be conducted to understand the previous research work conducted to understand to what extent the gap is present within the society and what are the governmental moves to mend the gaps between aboriginal people and quality healthcare. The databases that will be used for this purpose are google scholar, PubMed, Cochrane and CINAHL. The searcher terms, that will be used are ‘aboriginals healthcare rights’, ‘healthcare unmet needs of aboriginals in Australia’, ‘Australian aboriginals unmet healthcare needs’, ‘unmet healthcare rights of Torres strait islanders’. Further, the search will be narrowed so that more and more literatures can be found. Diabetes and obesity related healthcare needs of aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders will be searched. The assignment will be presented in a reporting format, where an introductionof the issue related to the gap present in the healthcare process for aboriginal will be presented. Further, the literature review will be incorporated, through which, different policy and service related gaps will be identified and process to deal with those gaps will be presented. Finally, a recommendation and conclusion will be included in the assignment.
The reason behind choosing this topic in the assignment was to create an equal and quality healthcare facility for each countrymen of Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are facing poor health condition in Australia compared to non-aboriginal’s heath status. However, there are several healthcare policies, services and facilities are already implemented by the government of Australia so that they can also have to chance to achieve quality healthcare (Treloar et al., 2013). Despite of this, the rates are not in the favor of aboriginals and the primary reason behind this is lack of information, awareness and facilities among the aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders regarding their rights that the government provide them (Jongen et al., 2014). Therefore, the assignment raised this issue as the society nowadays demands equality and services free from discrimination so that everyone can live freely within it (Artuso et al., 2013). The assignment will outline a process through which the policies and services for aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders will be delivered to them and the gap between the healthcare service and this community will be closed. Further incorporation of literature review within the assignment will provide it authentication through evidences from past research history so that significant improvements in their healthcare status can be observed within a shorter time frame.
Methodology
The assignment talks about the presence of gaps in the healthcare related knowledge or health literacy of the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to the extent that they are not aware of their own rights and facilities that the government provide them. Several researchers also agreed to the fact that there are very limited efficacy and sustainability incase of aboriginals. Demaio, Drysdale& De Courten(2012), determined that in the year 2008, the World Health Organization developed a framework for Culturally Appropriate Health promotional Campaign after that several countries having culturally discriminated community started thinking about their fundamental needs. The Australian government also took several steps so that this community can be connected to the mainstream Australian society. The government applied eight principles to mend the gap present between this community and their human rights, however the gap is still present. Further, another group of researchers identified and interviewed several aboriginal people to understand their knowledge about their rights related to health and illness and found that they are not aware of their basic fundamental needs provided by the Australian government (Aspin et al., 2012). Further they are not even aware of cultural safety while receiving healthcare that impact their mindset and they do not seek medical assistance in severe health condition. Therefore, this assignment has focused this issue to be discussed in detail in forthcoming assignments so that the gap can be mended and equality with respect to healthcare can be established. The literature review conducted in this assignment will be helpful to understand the past research work and future implication of it with respect to the study and will provide a frame work or outline to shape a health promotional campaign. Through which the policy, rights and service related information will be reinforced in the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders society. Further, the literature review will incorporate systematic analysis of the entire matter using databases such as CINAHL, Cochrane, PubMed, and google scholar and using these from a pool of research articles, relevant papers will be collected (Aspin et al., 2012). Further, a reporting format will be chosen that will align with the purpose of the assignment, and will be able to point out the gaps and strategies to mend those easily. Finally, in the reporting format a recommendation section will be incorporated so that a healthcare promotional campaign driven for the benefit of the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders can be developed (Hunt, 2012).
Literature Review
In a democratic society, positive law, which has the capability to make a positive change in the society should be promoted, distributed and communicated to the end point of the society, so that a maximum amount of people can take the advantage of it. It is natural to have gaps within a society as it is made up of people who are imperfect. However, it is the role of the leadership to spread the positive law within the society so that all those people who face discrimination, can take advantage of it. In this assignment, the outline related to a forthcoming assignment has been provided that will address the issue of healthcare related gaps present in between aboriginal people and the society. This assignment discussed the methodology and process of the literature review that will be included in the next assignment.
While going through the Master of Public Health Program, I become aware of another attribute of my personality, which thinks about the social discriminations, prejudices that detaches people from their fundamental rights. There are several skills or attributes required to fulfill the requirements of this profession as it needs determination, patience and strong mental condition, as the people we fight for might disown us as they do not trust us. Therefore, being selfless and ability to take initiative are another skills that would be required while conducting any project that is beneficial for any community or section of the society. While conducting this assignment, I became aware of few of my personal attributes that I will be discussing in this section. These skills are ability to work within a team, ability to take initiatives, interpersonal communication skills, analytical skills and problem solving skills. As the assignment was related to find out the gaps resent between aboriginals rights and their literacy regarding that, it was a day to day assessment and I was able to maintain it through my analytical skills. Further, using my interpersonal communication skills, I was able to talk to the aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders so that their barriers to attain quality healthcare like non-aboriginals can be understood. Therefore, these skills were my strength while conducting the literature review related searches. However, the attributes that I lacked and want to acquire for my further social responsibilities are technical and computer related skills, adaptability in any environment and flexibility with my personal needs. As without technical and computer related skills, I will be unable to conduct any research or develop a new care program within the society. This assignment helped me to understand my flaws and my strengths as we gone through several ups and downs that developed my personality and that will help me in future to fulfill my path of social work advocacy.
References
Artuso, S., Cargo, M., Brown, A., & Daniel, M. (2013). Factors influencing health care utilisation among Aboriginal cardiac patients in central Australia: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), 83.
Aspin, C., Brown, N., Jowsey, T., Yen, L., &Leeder, S. (2012). Strategic approaches to enhanced health service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness: a qualitative study. BMC health services research, 12(1), 143.
Demaio, A., Drysdale, M., & de Courten, M. (2012). Appropriate health promotion for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: crucial for closing the gap. Global Health Promotion, 19(2), 58-62.
Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal human rights in theory and practice, 3rd Edn, pp. 123-156, Cornell University Press.
Hathaway, O. A. (2017). Do human rights treaties make a difference?. In International Law and Society (pp. 3-110). Routledge.
Hunt, J. (2013). Engaging with Indigenous Australia-exploring the conditions for effective relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Retrieved from: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/59567/2/01_Hunt_Engaging_with_Indigenous_2013.pdf
Jongen, C., McCalman, J., Bainbridge, R., &Tsey, K. (2014). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal and child health and wellbeing: a systematic search of programs and services in Australian primary health care settings. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 14(1), 251.
Treloar, C., Gray, R., Brener, L., Jackson, C., Saunders, V., Johnson, P., …& Newman, C. (2013). Health literacy in relation to cancer: addressing the silence about and absence of cancer discussion among Aboriginal people, communities and health services. Health & social care in the community, 21(6), 655-664.