NURBN1004: Assessment 1 & 2
Community Fieldwork Report and Reflection
Community name
Aboriginals of Australia
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2019 NURBN1004 Fieldwork instructions
Students are required to engage in observation, research, reflection and analysis of where you cu
ently live. This might be a small community, a town, or subu
of a large city. The Community Fieldwork Report will form the basis for all assessment tasks for this course and will be the repository for all information required for the fieldwork practicum.
Over the next twelve (12) weeks you are to demonstrate an understanding of the complex elements that contribute to health status within your chosen community. This will be achieved by gathering information about your community through fieldwork photography or what is called ‘Photovoice’. As part of this fieldwork process you will need to also gather and examine cu
ent available data to make sense of what you see, reflect on what you find, and finally as you reflect on what you have learned about yourself throughout the semester.
As part of the fieldwork, there are twelve (12) elements that need to be considered. These are grouped strategically so you are addressing four (4) elements every three weeks. EACH ELEMENT SHOULD ONLY BE ONE (1) PAGE IN LENGTH, NO LONGER.
You will notice that the template below has a coloured section at the top of the page and each fieldwork topic has one particular colour. E.g. green, orange, and so on. ALL element groups are to be completed within the 9 week period allocated.
During your fieldwork, you are to thoughtfully photograph what you are seeing in your community that relates to the elements of health (They have to be your OWN photographs that you have taken - Photographs must not be from the internet or taken from a car window). You will need to also make notes about your observations out ‘in the field’ and then search for statistical evidence, data, or information to understand what you have found. Although your notes will not need to be submitted as part of the assessment, they will need to be kept to help you make sense of what you are finding and how what you find may relate to the health of your chosen community. Your notes form part of your authenticity of the work, so keep them handy throughout the semester as you will need them. For example, they will be used in the classroom or online discussions and may need to be presented at times throughout the semester.
Once you have taken your photograph, made your observations, and taken notes for each topic, you then need to:
1. Step back and interpret what all the information means and how it relates to the health for this population?
2. You need to ANSWER the reflective questions that are provided for each topic. The questions are based on the Gi
s Reflective Cycle using the SHOWeD principle to guide you to demonstrate your understanding and what you have learned from your data gathering and research on that particular community.
Photographs are to include a
ief caption to provide meaning and understanding of what has been photographed. It is important to include the location and the date it was taken. NO photographs are to be taken directly of people.
Every 3 weeks (weeks 3, 6, and 9) you must submit a “progress report” – the report is just your Community Fieldwork Report up to that point.
As part of the progress report, you are to conduct a PEER Audit on three other student’s Community Fieldwork Report to make sure they have submitted all work co
ectly by the deadline. You have 72 hours (3 days) to conduct your peer audit. An instruction video will be provided online how to do this.
Submission requirements and deadlines:
Assessment 1
· Progress Report 1 Week 3 (20%) : The initial reflection AND first 4 elements of the Fieldwork workbook
Submission Due: Friday 16th August, 5pm
Peer Audit Due: Monday 19th August, 5pm
· Progress Report 2 Week 6 (20%): Elements 5-8 of the Fieldwork workbook
Submission Due: Friday 6th September, 5pm
Peer Audit Due: Monday 9th September, 5pm
· Progress Report 3 Week 9 (20%): Elements 9-12 of the Fieldwork workbook
Submission Due: Friday 11th October, 5pm
Peer Audit Due: Monday 14th October, 5pm
There are two parts to each progress report submission – 1) the submission and 2) the peer audit
Please note, lecturers will be reviewing all work undertaken, including peer audit marking to ensure accuracy and proper feedback has been provided. If you have not undertaken, or have provided a poor or careless peer audit (rushed, insensitive or inco
ectly reviewed) then a 50% reduction in your own marks will occur. This will be at the discretion of the course coordinator, thus it is important that students undertake this peer audit seriously.
Assessment 2
· Final reflection Week 12 (40%): Submit the Final Community Fieldwork Report which will include the final reflection
Due Friday 1st November, 5pm
Progress reports and Final Reports MUST BE SUBMITTED via the respective links in Moodle in the assessment folder on the NURBN1004 Moodle site.
Peer Audits are confidential, randomly assigned and MUST BE COMPLETED in Moodle within 72hrs of the submission deadline
Failure to complete BOTH of these tasks will incur a penalty
Use the marking guide(s) to ensure you are meeting all assessment requirements.
NOTE: The observations you can use during your fieldwork can include information from all your senses. What do you see? What do you hear? What can you smell? Also use other resources such as local television, newspapers or radio; what does this tell you about this community? Look on local notice boards, newsletters, etc.
Your views of health – To complete and submit by week 3
Provide an overview of your views concerning health, and what may be the determinants of health among individuals in your chosen community. This should be your own views, not include any referenced material. (no more than 500 WORDS max)
On a personal point of view I feel that health could be well determined by the kind of choices that are made by every individual on a regular basis in their respective daily lifestyle. the state in which an individual feels mentally and physically fit signifies the outcomes of the choices are made by us in terms of what we eat , where we live and the kind of effort we inculcate into for leading a healthy lifestyle. In similar context to this the health status of a particular community largely depends upon the extent to which different determinants of health have contributed to the overall health status factor. A community health status could only be found to proper if its associated determinants are able to contribute to the community in a positive manner. The kind of circumstances or environment in which a community survives could illustrate the health status of its community. At personal front I feel that the intersection of healthcare and social integration as well as the economics in a way tend to define the health of a particular individual as well as a community. Moreover, I feel that there is a limited awareness about the kind of importance health has since one becomes conscious about the health factor when one has been affected by it. There is a need to understand that the health factor should not only be considered when one gets affected by it but every day by making prominent choices and improving the environmental status of the regions in which one lives.
The Aboriginals of Australia has been selected community for this study therefore based upon that it could be evidently stated that there are a number of factors that combine together to affect the health of the individuals of the said community. These factors are described to be the determinants of health of the said community. Some of these factors are :
· Environmental factors
The complex interaction of aspects such as water supply, housing and infrastructure, waste management, food safety and others as well are known to affect the health of the said community. All of the factors of the physical environment in a way contribute to the health status of the said community. Such as the said community depends on the water supply for many purposes. If safe and good quality water is being supplied to the said community then the chances of development of any kind of water borne diseases becomes almost negligible
· Behaviours
Similarly health behaviours such as the initiatives regarding physical activity, immunisation and nutrition are the factors that equivalently illustrate out the health report of the said community
· Community Capacity
The extent to which governances in maintained in respect to family safety, Child protection like aspect illustrate out the health aspects of the community
· Social and cultural context
Education, employment and economic development like social factirs and cultural and historical factors like racism, discrimination and colonialism have been identified to have significant impact on the health of the community
History – To complete and submit by week 3
Provide 1 photograph relating to HISTORY
Caption (Backstory to the picture)
Early Indigenous Community of Australia
The Aboriginal population was looked upon as an accidental remnant of prehistory in the 19th century who were counted as subhuman creatures
What do you SEE?
The living conditions of the concerned community could be well observed from the said image which portrays to be deteriorated one
What is really HAPPENING?
A gathering of concerned community comprising of different families in a particular environmental set up (Artiga & Hinton, 2018)
How does this relate to OUR health?
The living conditions of the early aboriginals is closely associated with our cu
ent health status as it showed that negligence still exists in the health care services of the indegebous and non indegenous Austrlians
WHY does this situation exist?
The concerned situation existed since there was no proper governance in that era of time that would protect the concerned community from the oppressions
What DETERMINANTS (risk/protective) does this relate to?
The concerned aspects directly relates to the social and cultural determinants of health
Demographics – To complete and submit by week 3
Provide 1 photograph related to DEMOGRAPHICS
Caption (Backstory to the picture)
Projected Population of Aboriginals Community in Australia
The demographic statistics illustrate out the age structure of both female and male indegenous community with non indigenous community of Australia
What do you SEE?
It could be observed that the age structure of the Aboriginals of the said nation is younger than the non indegenous
What is really HAPPENING?
The median age of the Aboriginals of Australia was 22 years in comparison to non indegenous Austrlian whose media age was 38 years.
How does this relate to OUR health?
This directly relates to our health in terms of the kind of interventions that are being undertaken to adopt healthy lifestyles.
WHY does this situation exist?
The concerned