The article presents key issues in regard to Indigenous Australians health status and their health disadvantages which have occurred through historical and geographical concepts. The report anaylses thes disadvantages through a timeline of Australia’s history and highlighted health problems that have occurred within Indigenous Australians over time. During European settlement, Australia was considered an healthy continent as it had not been exposed to the many diseases that had occurred in Euope, however due to the arrival of European settlement infectious diseases became pandemic. For example the 1789 smallpox epidemic which spread through many Aboriginal
The article presents key issues in regard to Indigenous Australians health status and their health disadvantages which have occurred through historical and geographical concepts. The report anaylses thes disadvantages through a timeline of Australia’s history and highlighted health problems that have occurred within Indigenous Australians over time. During European settlement, Australia was considered an healthy continent as it had not been exposed to the many diseases that had occurred in Euope, however due to the arrival of European settlement infectious diseases became pandemic. For example the 1789 smallpox epidemic which spread through many Aboriginal