Reflective Essay

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The National Aboriginal and Islander Organisation (NAIHO, 1982, p. 2) has stated that health is: ?not just the physical well-being of the individual but the social, emotional and cultural well-being of the whole community. This is a whole-of-life view… Health care services should strive to achieve the state where every individual is able to achieve their full potential as human beings, and thus bring about the total well-being of the community??
In this assessment task you are required to prepare a 1,200 word reflective essay. This assessment task requires you to reflect upon and discuss your position in relation to the above statement as you see it relates to health care with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
There are four required components to the task:
1. Describe a potential health strategy that could be used to achieve the health services envisioned in the NAIHO statement above.
– The strategy needs to be one that you devise but It can be based on the existing strategy.
– For example the kind of health service, the types of health program.
– Here you are required to find scholarly information in supports of your claims about why your potential health strategy will help achieve positive health outcome for the indigenous people who use it, following the NAIHO definition of health.
2.Discuss the implications of participating in the potential health strategy for your own health care practice, including an explanation about how you would interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, their families and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health staff.
-What would working on your proposed health strategy mean for you?
-How would you ensure culturally safe health care?
– challenges, Possibilities
3.Describe how the potential health strategy would contribute towards ?closing the gap?.
-Discuss how the strategy you have developed will contribute to reducing the gap in health outcome between indigenous and non indigenous Australia.
-In other word how will your health strategy help to improve indigenous health outcome at a population level( which means overall across the whole population)
4.Demonstrate your understanding of the concepts of cultural safety, self-determination and collaboration in components 1, 2, and 3.