Stories beyond the statistics

Question 1

Explain the value of introductions

Answer 1

ductions
provide a lot of information.
- country: access and affordability issues
- family and isolation
- culture
- language
- disconnect from countru and culture = lack family history, tauma and distrust of institutions and healthcare ^[implications for adherence/compliance, MDT; important to enquire about feasibility and formulate care plan], lack of social support and network

Question 2

Describe the significance of s51

Answer 2

The constitution
specifically section 51.
The federal exclusion for legislating for Aboriginal people, giving authority to the states and Crown.
Note, in territories, SA and NSW had jurisdiction over NT and ACT respectively.

The constitutional clause informs modern trauma.
The 1967 referendum removed clause, but government can continue to make racist laws, and potentially mute the Voice.

Question 3

Describe the implications of the white austarlia policy

Answer 3

Group of policies dictating who could enter Australia.

Question 4

What are the three components of the Uluru statement?

Answer 4

• truth-telling
  
  • treaty
  • voice

Question 5

Describe the RDA and its limits?

Answer 5

1975, s18
- has been suspended at times, to conduct illegal acts

Question 6

What are the three components to Aboriginality?

Answer 6

• heritage
• community acceptance
• self-identification

Question 7

What are the issues surrounding the gap?

Answer 7

Issues: targets social and cultural determinants of health, that are derived from a Western framework. In other words, the origins of the social determinants of health lies in colonialism.

Question 8

What are the components of the closing gap: GP program?

Answer 8

• Annual Health Check: not exclusive to Indigenous people, but encouraged
  
  • better access to allied health, but issue of trust and trauma
  • cheaper meds e.g. aspirin, chloramphenicol, paracetamol, antifungals, eye and ear drops
    
    • limited
  • care coordinators and transport - funding
  • specialists and imaging - funding - but limited, mainly for rural and remote patients
  • encourage visits to GP