HELPING ABORIGINAL CHILDREN

Helping Aboriginal Children Stay Strong



Helping Aboriginal Children Stay Strong

Introduction

Education is the most vital factor by which people can make optimistic, informed and right choices regarding their lives and, also realise their full capability and potential to get things done. To achieve such benefits, there is a need to ensure the equity of participation, engagement, and access along with learning so that children could get adequate level of academic attainment which could help them in empowering and improving their daily lives. The article is a media publication that was written by Hon John Hi, who is the Minister of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and the article was published on Thursday, September 20th, 2012 with the title as “Helping aboriginal children stay strong”. The article provides an analysis of the issues that have contributed toward the experiences of health of Western Australian Aboriginal children with time. It provides a description to the parents regarding the relative disadvantages of late vaccination to the Aboriginal students or babies as; it can badly influence their retention, attainment, and participation in the society.

Analysis

Several Aboriginal children get their vaccinations so later than the age that is recommended for that, or even though miss out the vaccines completely. Being immunised on accurate time is highly significant in order to achieve higher levels of health protection to the children or the babies, in one's own family and eventually the community. When children do not receive their proper vaccinations as per the recommended schedule, then they are in risk of getting diseases as they are the most vulnerable and may by no means entirely complete all their vaccinations. This carelessness of parents towards their children may outcome in more chances of prevailing diseases in the society (Bindler & Cowen, 2010).

In this regard, some key facts have been taken into considerations which are as follows:

Many latest studies have proved that, just about 64 percent of Aboriginal infants' age groups of up to 12 months, in remote areas, get their complete course of immunisation as properly scheduled. This estimation declines to 34 percent for the children up to 4 years old (Murtagh, 2011).

Delayed immunisation has been connected to higher rate of pertussis, i.e. whooping cough and eventually a higher hospitalisation rate in Aboriginal children (SA Health, 2012).

Around 38 percent of the cases of (pertussis) whooping cough in Aboriginal children which are under the age of 1 year take place in between 3 to 6 months of age groupings, pointing out the requirement for timely and effective immunisation at very early age of childhood against whooping cough (pertussis). (WHO).

When a child is an infant, then he or she must have to be immunised for protecting him or her against particular preventable diseases, and it is the responsibility of parents to boost their protection by properly vaccinated them at the recommended time. Because of such properly received vaccinations, the children's protection against many diseases fades away with time. The vaccinations that are provided to them repeatedly are ...