Data Driven!
71.9 years for males and 75.6 years for females
What is the life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Educational attainment, employment status, income are all examples of this determinant area
What is SES?
Disruption of Indigenous communities and displacement from land were caused by this
What is colonisation?
Foundation that uses sport as an educational vehicle for Indigenous Australians
What is the Clontarf Foundation?
The measures of epidemiology
What is infant mortality, morbidity, mortality, life expectancy.
Smoking being a major contributor to disease burden, Poor nutrition and Lower physical activity in some communities are an example of which determinant area.
What are health behaviours?
The transmission of negative effects from survivors to subsequent generations, often appearing as anxiety, behavioural changes, and emotional difficulties similar to PTSD
What is intergenerational trauma?
Legislation in the form of a plan that addresses the specific health needs of the indigenous population
What is the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan?
61% of Indigenous people die before the age of 65.
What is premature mortality
Genetics, Blood pressure, Blood glucose levels, Cholesterol levels, Physical impairment are all egs within this determinant group
What are biomedical factors?
Giving care with this in mind takes into account culture when implementing health services.
What is cultural sensitivity?
One of the great acronyms. Health care that is run and owned by indigenous communities. Training others in cultural competency
What are (ACCHO's)
Measures the total impact of health issues on a population by combining premature death with years lived with illness or injury
What are DALY's (burden of disease)
Key outcome that will be likely when education attainment is lower. (We spoke about this link in class)
What are lower health literacy levels?
Difficulty understanding health info and accessing services
What is health literacy?
What is bulk billing?
The term used to collectively describe the increase rates of self harm, suicide and highly prevalent mental illness.
What is psychological distress?
Long travel distances (100+ km) to healthcare is an example of what determinant area?
What are broad environmental factors?
Financial insecurity, Job instability, labour intensive, environmentally harsh working conditions are examples of conditions of this type of worker.
What are blue collar workers?
Helping isolated low ses people with transport arrangements to medical treatment
What is IPTAAS (isolated patients travel and accomodation assistance scheme)