Reflective Assignment Report

Assignment 1: Reflective Assignment
The Media has an immense impact on the psychosocial development in children (Canadian Paediatric Society, 2003). This is because they are “powerful teachers”, television shows like Sesame Street can provide important lesson and information to children on words, simple arithmetic, cooperation and other significant lessons (Canadian Paediatric Society, 2003). However, vice-versa is true as well, as such media platforms can produce stereotypes by portraying a group, race or other types of catalogs of identities with narrow ideas, like the Indigenous population. These stereotypes labels are thieves, uneducated, addicted to drugs and alcohol, criminals and more (Buzzfeed Australia, 2015). However, I do not think

At primary school, I had many exposures to Indigenous cultural from history to art. In high school, some of my classmates were from Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander descent, they were friendly and super sociable, some of them became, leaders or organiser of social events like Movie Night. Media is a factor that I believe is disadvantaging Indigenous, but other is the location of Indigenous’s community being in rural locations (Korff, 2017). This makes it hard to access healthcare faculty causing a big gap between the Indigenous and non-indigenous health. Thus, during my studys, the topic of Indigenous health came up and the media opinion of the Close the Gap result annually was negative because of the lack of vast improvement (Hunter & Gordon, 2017). Stated in the newspaper like the Sydney Morning Herald, the goal to eliminate the life expectancy gap is not on track to be achieved by 2031 with the life expectancy of male indigenous being 10.6 years shorter than non-indigenous and in females indigenous it is 9.5 years (Hunter & Gordon, 2017). Which is understandable, as healthcare facility is not common in rural area, being far from home can be scary and stressful, but also because of the media, distrust from other patients or medical staff can be present hence causing most indigenous to leave early. This proves my point

The factors that influence me most are my family and my personal experiences. I critically reflect though communication about the topic and through that discussion I then have a better understanding of my thoughts and ideas on the topic. However, from this I need to be careful as a future health professional, information about patients and confidential information should be kept private thus I need to be aware not to have loss lips. This can be done via taking to my supervisor, colleague or just not mention much detail, such as name, place, and gender. However, I also need to be more in tune with media, as it is a vital source of information in order to have a basic understand of social views and thus understand why my patient behave the way they do, in particular, with people of other cultural background form me like the Indigenous