This assignment relates to learning Objectives: 5 and 7 as identified in the course specification. To achieve this students are required to: Critically analyse Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing and examine how Aboriginal Medical Services are underpinned by Primary Health Care principles Formatting of your assignment
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Assessment Task
This assignment requires students to examine the Indigenous definitions of social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous Australians as opposed to a Western definition of mental health. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, prefer the terminology ‘social and emotional wellbeing’, rather than ‘mental health’ due to its more positive and holistic connotations. From an Aboriginal perspective holistic health and social and emotional well-being complement each other. For the purposes of this assignment you need to discuss the following:
a) Describe the differences between an Aboriginal concept of social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) as opposed to the term mental health (300 words)
b) Describe when and how Aboriginal Medical Services evolved and how they align with the principles of primary health care as outlined by the World Health Organisation (500 words)
c) Describe how social and emotional wellbeing is applied in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health service today (400 words)
Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing
Introduction
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, are more denoted and referred with the ‘social and emotional wellbeing’. It is the way, they refer to the mental and the sound wellbeing in their health, that could be helpful in relating to the more positive along with the holistic connotations
Difference between the aboriginal concept of social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) in comparison to the mental health
The term social and emotional wellbeing is used by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe the social, emotional, spiritual, and cultural wellbeing of a person (Walter, 2016). The term recognizes that connection to land, culture, spirituality, family, and community are important to people and can impact on their wellbeing. It also recognizes that a person’s social and emotional wellbeing is influenced by policies and past events.
Another term that is often used when discussing wellbeing is mental health. Mental health is a term that has been used a lot, mainly by non-Indigenous people, to describe how people think and feel, and how they cope with and take part in everyday life. People are often thought of as being mentally healthy when they don’t have a mental illness (when people become unwell in the mind and it affects their thinking, feelings, and behavior (Wadsworth, 2013).
The term social and emotional wellbeing is used by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe the social, emotional, spiritual, and cultural wellbeing of a person. The term recognizes that connection to land, culture, spirituality, family, and community are important to people and can impact on their wellbeing. It also recognizes that a person’s social and emotional wellbeing is influenced by policies and past events.
Another term that is often used when discussing wellbeing is mental health. Mental health is a term that has been used a lot, mainly by non-Indigenous people, to describe how people think and feel, and how they cope with and take part in everyday life. People are often thought of as being mentally healthy when they don’t have a mental illness (when people become unwell in the mind and it affects their thinking, feelings, and behavior (Shepherd, 2013).
Aboriginal Medical Services governed with the principles of primary health care (World Health Organisation)
As per the WHO reports, the community has been widely been recognized, under the vast disparities that exist between the health of Australia’s indigenous (Day, 2013). It is also defined as how the Aboriginals and also population are the major affluent country. As per the WHO reports, Aboriginal health has been known to tackle the social problems being part of the communities.
It was during mid-2006, there has been a large influence of the Indigenous population of Australia that has touched the 500,000, and there has been predominantly a large contextual population that has been part of the colonization. As the growing population touched the 500,000 milestones, it has been considered to be the symbolic and real victory that has helped to be one of an integral part of the important set up in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander survival.
As per the WHO reports, Australia has created efforts, the extraordinary paradox-which has exclusively be made as a tremendous to the population of the 2.4% (Gray, 2018). To understand how the Indigenous people been an integral part of Australian culture, have also been known to create a better environment, that compromises the large evidence based on the massive social and economic disadvantage that has been experienced by the Indigenous people. It is also the related excess morbidity along with the mortality that could affect the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander, which the reports have suggested to consider. It is also how Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have been experiencing racism and health along with inevitable to match with the inexorably linked and it would be related to the findings to the social determinants of health.
Due to the WHO findings that have been related to the evaluation based on the Aboriginal Medical Services. It has been an extensive support that could be related to the Australian related support and the system has to be based on the significant body that is more related to the fair assumption on the key focus on health which would consider the neighborhoods, includes the family and social connections along with considering the social marginalization, and it would be more affected parameters of the actual or perceived control that would be of the one’s life and workplace.
As per the Aboriginal Medical services that would be governing with the unequal distribution that could result in negative health-related behaviors, and would consider the adverse effects upon the Aboriginal disadvantaged (Le Grande, 2017). It is also how the racially and ethnically biased affected parameters that would consider the clinical decision making which has accounted to contribute over the poorer health care and outcomes.
Australia government has ensured, to obey as per the WHO standards and cater to the needs of the Aboriginal people and make them class apart from the most comparable developed nations. It is also the failure that would be based on the significant inroads that could result in the negative health status and it would cause the Indigenous population that would last 30 years. It is also how there has been an excessive case of the massive excess of mortality rates that have been widely been observed in the Aboriginal people that have been part of the middle age is without comparison. It was initiated through extensive support of the 1978 WHO Alma-Ata Declaration that could be helpful from the Primary Health Care point of view.
Social and emotional wellbeing related to the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health service today
The social and emotional well being have been related to the majority of the Aboriginal community people, It is also attributed to the findings based on how it would result in the growing structure, to the wellbeing of the people (Rice, 2016). The social well being and the emotional context are more examined to the overall development of the Aboriginal people and their welfare set up. It is how they would grow predominantly and it would lead to overall community development. As there has been seen, that Aboriginal community well being that could adhere to the overall guidelines that could match with the Indigenous health and also provide a better SEWB service provision. It is also how the overall social well being and the community development, that could deliver the
It is also based on the focused set up to the central communities that have been around the general well being and for the healthier communities. The key focus of the community-controlled Aboriginal has been related to the health service (ACCHS) sector, and it has been so far focused on prevention over the early intervention along with creating comprehensive care that could be reduced as per the barriers access. It is also important to create unintentional racism, includes a key focus on the progressively improving the people's health benefits of the Aboriginal people (Walter, 2016).
The service also considers focussing on the broad range of the primary health care data which can draw relevant evidence and be based on the set up that could compute better health outcomes. It is also how the Indigenous people being part of the ACCHSs can deliver better outcomes that could be achieved through the mainstream services, and would represent the data show. It also considers the comprehensive primary health care that could be obligated with the patient-centered medical home model and would also include a majority of the Aboriginal population which can practice normal care and it would be dependent on the better-controlled community health sector.
Conclusion
In the end, to conclude, it is important to address the wellbeing of the Aboriginal people and how it would be helpful in an overall better emotional and social care set up. It is also how the Aboriginal people have held a perspective that could be obligated through the holistic health along with attaining a social and emotional well-being that could complement each other.