Students are required to write a scholarly essay in response to the following statement:
The ongoing health status of Indigenous Australian people continues to be a highlighted issue in the Australian health sector. This unit has addressed a broad spectrum of issues that will inform your professional practice when working with Indigenous people regarding the issue of health status.
With this statement in mind, please address the following issues in your essay:
- Discuss your understanding of how Aboriginal people define health and wellbeing.
- Discuss institutional and systemic racism and its impacts on Indigenous people’s culturally safe access to health care.
- Consider your role as a health professional, and identify key learned points you have gained throughout this unit, that you will apply in a culturally safe way to your professional practice, when working with Indigenous people.
Task Instructions
Your essay should be scholarly, meeting the standard academic conventions required at Southern Cross University when completing an undergraduate written assignment. Please refer to the terminology guide provided, and ensure you refer to it so that you are applying correct and appropriate use of terminology, when writing in reference to Indigenous Australian people.