Osteoarthritis
... Introduction
The city of Campbelltown is a rapidly expanding community in the greater south west of Sydney. Very much a multicultural town with a broad scope of rich, and poor it can be considered in many ways a disadvantaged community, in my many years of growing up there it is common to see drugs, alcohol and obesity writhe in the people. Unemployment, teenage pregnancy, smoking and a large indigenous community makes health problems real and a lack in medical facilities is present. This writing will introduce the reader to common health problems that exist in Campbelltown and will talk specifically about osteoarthritis and the health services for this disease. It will also contrast and compare biomedical treatment against alternative complementary therapies for the treatment of osteoarthritis.
Socio-demographic profile of Campbelltown
Since 1991 Campbelltown has continued to outgrow Sydney, N.S.W, and Australia percentage wise in population growth. The current population of Campbelltown is 234,157 people.
Campbelltown has a higher proportion of single parent families (13.5%) compared to Sydney as a whole (9.6%), and twice the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (2.3%, compared to 1.1%).
Full-time secondary school education participation of 16 year olds living in Campbelltown (69.3%) was notably lower than for Sydney (76.2%). A marginally lower proportion of Campbelltown's households received rent assistance from Centrelink (12.6%) compared to Sydney (13.7%), but there were more dwellings rented from the State housing authority (9.8%, compared to 5.1% for Sydney). The proportion of dwellings with no access to a motor vehicle (8.7%) was lower compared to that for Sydney (13.1%). The Division had lower proportions of the population who reported using, at home, a computer (41.3%) and the Internet (25.8%), compared to Sydney (43.7% and...
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