Indigenous Population Issues

According to the Cunningham, Rumboid, Zhang and Condon, (2008,pg 585 ) research, it is suggested that Indigenous population median age of health condition is 20.5 years ,only 3% people aged above 65 or more while Non-indigenous population is 36.1,13% population aged 65 above. And, in terms of life expectancy, Indigenous Australian have seventeen years less life expectancy than non-indigenous. It is said that this might be the possible reason that cancer is less noticeable among Indigenous population in compared to other health problems. Socioeconomic factors such as access to the health facilities and resources are limited in the Indigenous population because a large proportion of people live in remote areas (Koefler, 2012, pg.35). Likewise, Indigenous people less likely to have educational opportunities which affects people’s view about the disease, its treatment and management and further impacted on cancer incidence and mortality and survival rate (Roder & Currow, 2008, pg. 731). Among the Indigenous population, most of the people are unemployed, uneducated and live in remote areas which are the main barriers for them to access to health services for early detection and prevention of cancer (AIHW, 2012, p.62). Access to education is also considered as a vital elements for health and wellbeing and it is further …show more content…
The survey that was conducted by AIHW, reported that 2 times higher population were smokers in daily basis and 1.1 times were heavy alcohol consumers when compared to Non-indigenous population. Similarly, it is stated that 2 times higher those who were overweight and almost twice of the indigenous population had no vegetable in their meal when compared to their counterparts (AIHW, 212, pg.,