Intent: This assessment provides students with an opportunity to understand the complexity of Indigenous health and the impact of socialisation over time. This assessment provides students with an...

Running Head: HEALTHCARE CASE 1 TINA                        1
HEALTHCARE CASE 1 TINA                                 2
HEALTHCARE CASE 1 TINA
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Complexity of Indigenous Health    3
Impact of Colonisation in the Indigenous Population    4
Case Study    6
Factors that Affect Individual’s Mental, Social and Physical Health    6
Healthcare Policy    8
Conclusion    9
References    10
Introduction
The indigenous population in Australia is being considered to have the poorest health outcome compared to that of the non-indigenous counterparts. The experience of the colonisation and the long-term effects of being colonised has drastically caused the inequalities in the indigenous health status. It therefore affects the social, emotional, physical and mental health and wellbeing of these deprived indigenous people. The indigenous people are more likely than other Australians experience various forms of disadvantages and injustices such as the higher unemployment rates, poor educational facilities, poverty, isolation and exposure to violence, racial as well as cultural discrimination. This paper will explore a case study 1 attached in the Canvas, about one of an Aboriginal group experiencing the complexities of health and other social factors, the impact of socialisation over time. It would also explain how colonisation has shaped the social determinants of health and a cu
ent policy in improving the health outcomes of these indigenous people in Australia.
Complexity of Indigenous Health
As it is a well-known fact that the indigenous group in Australia are suffering from a huge health gap than those of the non-indigenous population. Evidently, Aboriginal Australians are more susceptible to contraction and die from chronic illnesses in comparison to non-Indigenous populations. According to several data from Australian institute of Health and Welfare between 2011-2015, where the indigenous Australians were 10 percent more likely to acquire cancer and other chronic diseases and 1.4 percent are more likely to die from it.
Rheault, Coyer, Jones and Bonner (2019) also stated that the standardised mortality rate between 2012 and 2016, among the indigenous Australians was 235 deaths per 100,000 people. However, through several studies it is observed that the indigenous population experiences multiple and intersecting challenges in accessing u
an health care service and this include racism and discrimination, long wait lists, unable to meet the expected health expense, lack the proper speaking fluency, cultural ba
iers and unsafe care. Neither do they have a proper health department in their area, nor were they allowed to take the facilities of the u
an health department.
As a result, they experience high level of maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition, cardiovascular illness, HIV/AIDS, or other transmitted and infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases (Callander et al., 2019). As they have lower level of education, higher rate of unemployment, improper housing and crowded living quality, higher rate of incarceration and many more social disadvantages these indigenous people often suffer from fear, anxiety, depression and stress, which are affecting their mental health as well.
Impact of Colonisation in the Indigenous Population
Colonialism severely affected the Aboriginal society as well as the economy, the epidemic diseases caused an immediate loss of life and the occupation of the land by the settlers and the restriction of aboriginal people to reserves disrupted their ability to support themselves. As mentioned by Maple-Brown and Hampton (2020), colonialism constantly created a circumstance of war and conflict between the indigenous and non-indigenous people.
It therefore causes loss of culture as well as the identity. It also creates environmental degradation, the spread of diseases, economic instability, ethnic rights and human right violation. As argued by Andersen, Williamson, Fernando, Eades and Redman (2018), heavy taxation imposition after the colonialism phase affected these indigenous people a lot and after this, they undergo mental depression and anxiety.
As stated by Macedo, Smithers, Roberts and Jamieson (2020), the indigenous group of population in Australia are often regarded as underclass and deprived people. They lack proper education, suffers from unemployment, lower income level, isolated for blackish culture and experience poor cultural development. According to the history of residential schools in Australia, they were being identified to be the main contributor to the cu
ent health status of the Indigenous people in Australia.
The study also expresses the range of poorer physical, mental, social and emotional health outcomes in both the residential families as well as the attendees. Among all the colonial policies adopted by the Australian government, this residential schooling system proved as being the most harming and damaging the Indigenous group of people. The main motif of this residential schooling system...