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Assignment
2 – Essay (Graded)
Due
08 May 2020, 5:00pm
While
there have been some improvements in the health and well-being of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in recent
decades, Indigenous Australians remain considerably more
disadvantaged in long term health and socioeconomic outcomes
compared with their non-Indigenous counterparts (AIHW
2014). Indigenous Australians experience higher rates of poor
health, poverty, poor nutrition, inadequate housing and other
social and health problems relative to non-Indigenous Australians
(Mitrou et al. 2014). This disparity in health and social
outcomes is often the result of a complex array of interrelated
cultural, economic, environmental, geographical and social
factors that impact upon the health and well-being of Aboriginal
or Torres Strait Islander people. Much of this observed
discrepancy has been attributed to so-called “determinants of
health” factors, which are defined as those non-health indicators
of life outcomes which influence an individual’s health status
across the course of their life (Canuto et al. 2017). These
determinants of health factors are listed below.
Determinants
of health factors:
Education
Employment
and income
Housing
Location
Racism and racial
discrimination
Community safety
Transport
Health
behaviours and lifestyle (e.g. tobacco use, alcohol consumption,
physical activity, diet and nutrition).
ASSIGNMENT
DETAILS
For
this assignment you must choose FOUR determinants of health factors
from the above list and provide a discussion of approximately
450 words for each of these four factors on how they impact on the
health and wellbeing of a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait
Islander background. Your responses are to be presented as a formal
scholarly essay, supported with reliable
sources of evidence (e.g. journal articles or textbooks),
and referenced correctly using the UniSA
Harvard Referencing System.
DIRECTIONS
The
paper must be presented as a formal scholarly essay in the following
format:
Introduction
(100 words)
The introduction should provide the reader with all
necessary information for what will be discussed in the assignment
and to orientate the reader to the whole document giving the paper
context.
Body
of Essay (1800 words)
This section should discuss the four
factors (450 words each) that impact on the health and well-being of
a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background.
Conclusion
(100 words)
The conclusion serves the important function of
tying together the whole assignment. It does not introduce new ideas,
new literature or direct quotes. The conclusion needs to draw
together the important aspects of the assignment and leave the
reader with the impression of completeness and of a positive gain.
REFERENCES
A
minimum of 8 – 10 references (two for each factor discussed) from
reliable sources of evidence such as journal articles, textbooks
and reports from government/research centers should support the
assignment. They should be referenced correctly using the
Harvard Referencing System.
PLEASE
NOTE
Resubmission
is NOT available for this component of the course.
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