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Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS)

Introduction

Aboriginal communities of Australia do not have any access to good healthcare facilities in the past, and also no attention was paid to their cultural needs. The community experienced a lot of mortality in the younger population. The lack of health care created a large gap in health among Australian aboriginal people and the remaining Australian population (NACCHO, 2019). The Government of Australia has started many programs aimed at providing the indigenous population with greater access to health services improving life expectancy and reducing mortality. Apart from that, the aboriginals created their own healthcare system that is run and operated by themselves. They founded Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) who focuses on providing holistic treatment to aboriginals of Australia. This essay is on the role of ACCHS in providing good health care facilities to the aborigi....