Question

Health is multi-factorial and is influenced by a number of things including our age,family history of illness,employement,education and living conditions.Briefly outline how the following themes impact the health and illness of people from Australia and other countries(30 to 40 words)

Enviroment

Cultural barries

Community acceptance

Answer 1

Environment

The biodiversity in Australia is lost due to deforestation, land clearing, pollution especially the water and soil.This has lead to increase in diseases like asthma and cancer.It also has affected the water causing disease due to it.

Cultural barriers

These barriers like minority groups, specific beliefs and practices, low socioeconomic status, low educational status ,etc., has lead to access for good health care. There is also a communication lagging making them difficult to understand the healthcare services. The lack of knowledge has created a sense of fear and non affordability to access the right care.

Community acceptance

There is a major difference in the community acceptance when there is a mental illness among the society. There is a high prevalence of stigma existing but overall the community acceptance for health care services has be accepted by most of the Australians.