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For Nursing StudentsAssessment #1: Essay - Context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' HealthWords: 2,000Grade worth: 40%Due: 5pm, Friday 20th August 2021 (end of Week 4)
Submit electronically: Use the Assessment Submission Link on the home page of the course website.
You will write an academic essay on how one (1) contemporary healthcare strategy can improve a health issue experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You will include key demographic, social, or cultural factors that impact upon this health issue.You will identify and discuss a health perspective, effective program, model of care or practice(s) that meets the needs and is more acceptable to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Please refer to the course website for further information about the assessment. The marking rubric and feedback form for this assessment are located in the Assessment folder. Review the criteria so you are clear about the expectations for the assignment. Your tutor will return the completed rubric with comments on the assignment.

  • These risk factors are listed in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013–?2023 (Australian Government 2013, pp. 27–28)
  • The table below provides some example individual- and environmental-focused health promotion strategies or activities that focus on these risk factors. You might find these resources helpful as you work on Assignment 2.
  • Examples   of effective health interventions and health promotion activities   and programs developed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander   communities
  • The   National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and   Oxfam Australia, 2007, Close the Gap:  Solutions to the Indigenous Health Crisis Facing Australia.   There is a list of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health interventions and health promotion success stories on pages 14–16.
  • Australian Human Rights Commission 2017Close the Gap: Indigenous Health Campaign. There are 8 documents which report on the progress of the Close the Gap campaign.   Most of them include a list of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health success stories including successful interventions and health promotion   programs and activities.
  • Risk   factors identified in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan   (2013) Resources   to support the health promotion activities (includes examples of health   promotion programs)
  • Obesity
  • Low   fruit and vegetable intake
  • Nutrition Australian Government 2012, Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition.
  • Australian Government 2016, Nutrition and healthy eating.
  • Brimblecombe  & O'Dea 2009, 'The role of energy cost in food choices for an Aboriginal population in northern  Australia', Medical Journal of Australia.
  • Browne, Laurence, & Thorpe 2009, Acting on food insecurity in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.
  • Colles, Maypilama & Brimblecombe 2014, 'Food, food choice and nutrition promotion in a remote Australian Aboriginal community', Australian Journal of Primary Health.
  • Gracey et al. 2006, 'An   Aboriginal-driven program to prevent, control and manage nutrition-related "lifestyle" diseases including diabetes', Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
  • Gracey 2000, ‘Historical, cultural, political, and social influences on dietary patterns and nutrition in Australian Aboriginal children’, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
  • Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services 2016, How much sugar is in your drink?.
  • Lee et al. 2009, 'Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander nutrition and health', Medical Journal of Australia.
  • Menzies School of Health Research 2013, Working  together – Indigenous nutrition.
  • Queensland Health 2008, A healthy start in life: a nutrition manual for health professionals.   Includes helpful resources, including one for Aboriginal and Torres Strait   Islander nutrition (section 1.9).
  • Western Australian Government 2012, Go for 2&5 fruit and vegetable campaign.
  • World Health Organization 2017, Nutrition. General information about nutrition.
  • Physical activity
  •   Australian Government 2013, Supporting healthy communities through sports and recreation programs.
  • Australian Government 2012, Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition.
  • Red Dust Role Models 2017, Healthy living program.
  • Reilly et al. 2013, 'What makes us different? The role of Rumbalara Football and Netball Club in promoting   Indigenous wellbeing', Australian Community Psychologist.
  • Thorpe,   Anders & Rowley 2014, 'The community network: an Aboriginal community football club bringing people together', Australian Journal of Primary Health.
  • Queensland   Health 2008, A healthy start in life: a nutrition manual for health professionals.   Includes helpful resources, including general information about physical   activity (section 1.7).
  • World   Health Organization 2017, Physical activity. General information about this risk factor.
  • Tobacco
  •   Australian Government 2017, Quit now -   don’t make smokes your story. Examples of a   government approach to stopping smoking for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander   peoples. Includes some good videos.
  • Australian Government 2017, Indigenous anti-smoking campaign: break the chain.
  • Australian Government 2011, Anti-tobacco programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  • Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet 2015, Health Promotion Resources - Tobacco. Includes links to health promotional resources related to this risk factor.
  • Briggs, Lindorff & Ivers 2003, 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and tobacco', Tobacco Control.
  • Campbell et al. 2014, 'Kick the habit: a social marketing campaign by Aboriginal communities in NSW', Australian Journal of Primary Health.
  • Creative   Spirits 2016, Aboriginal smoking: a serious health problem.
  • Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services 2016,  HYPERLINK "http://kams.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Nuff-of-the-Puff-A3-Poster.pdf" Nuff of the puff.
  • NSW Health 2010, The NSW SmokeCheck Aboriginal tobacco prevention project.
  • World Health Organization 2017, Tobacco.
  • High   blood pressure
  • High   blood cholesterol Australian   Indigenous HealthInfoNet 2017, Cardiovascular health (HeartInfoNet). This is an important   resource with many relevant links for this risk factor.
  • Brown   et al. 2016, SA Aboriginal heart and stroke plan 2017-2021, SAHMRI. Browse   through to find relevant information.
  • Burgess et al. 2009, 'Healthy country, healthy people: the relationship between Indigenous health status   and "caring for country"', Medical Journal of Australia.
  • Huffman & Galloway 2010, 'Cardiovascular health in Indigenous communities: successful programs', Heart, Lung and Circulation.
  • Tibby, Corpus & Walters 2010, 'Establishment   of an innovative specialist cardiac Indigenous outreach service in rural and remote Queensland', Heart, Lung and   Circulation.
  • World Health Organization 2017, Cardiovascular  disease.
  • Alcohol Australian Government 2006, National alcohol strategy. Read the Executive Summary   on pp. 2-3. This strategy is under review and   a new strategy is due for publication in late 2017.
  • Australian Government 2015, Alcohol.
  • Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet 2017, Australian Indigenous alcohol and other drugs knowledge centre.   This site has a wide range of information including health promotion resources covering publications from 2011-2017.
  • Brady 2007, 'Equality and difference: persisting historical themes in health and alcohol policies affecting   Indigenous Australians', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
  • Brown & Brown 2007, 'The Northern Territory intervention: voices from the centre of the fringe', Medical Journal of Australia.
  • Dudgeon et al. 2014, Effective strategies to strengthen the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Australian Institute   of Health and Welfare.
  • Fitts   & Palk 2015, Development of a drink driving program for regional and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, National Drug Law Research   Agency.
  • Loxley et al. 2005, 'Alcohol policy and harm reduction in Australia', Drug and   Alcohol Review.
  • Munro et al. 2017, 'Riding the rural radio wave: The impact of a community-led drug and alcohol radio  advertising campaign in a remote Australian Aboriginal community', Australian Journal of Rural Health.
 

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