NURBN1004 Determinants Of Health
Question:
You are to demonstrate an understanding of the complex elements that contribute to health status within a community.
During your fieldwork, you are to collect relevant observations out ‘in the field’ and statistical evidence.
People and Culture:
Element 1: History
This element is about exploring the history of this community. When was it established? What determined the name? What significant buildings exist? How did the population come to be here? What was the community founded on- industry, geographic location, etc? What significant events has impacted on the development of this community today? How long have residents lived here- long term or transient population? Can you discover anything else that ‘paints a picture’ about the history of this community?
Element 2: Demographics
For this element you are required to examine the type of people that make up your population. Here you may need to look at the larger population here (LGA data) to paint a true picture. Think about the spread of ages across the population- young /old, gender ratio, marital status, family units- single parent family/extended families in one dwelling, etc.
How does your population compare to other LGAs or to Victoria as a whole?
Answer:
History: Research Data and Comparisons
Epping is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This area is allocated 20 km north of Melbourne’s Central Business District. The local government area of Epping is considered as the City of Whittlesea. Epping is also located on the Darebin Creek. Until the year 2012, Epping was also the terminus of the metropolitan railway line. The town of Epping was developed after a survey was conducted of an unnamed village in the year 1839. This town was specifically named after the Epping Forests, located in Essex, England. By the period of 1853, a hotel and a catholic school was established in Epping. Road Board of Epping was established a year later, which means in the year 1854. In the year 1870 the area around the Epping town became the Darebin Shire, which was later in the year 1893 was renamed as Epping Shire and it remained as Epping Shire till the time it was united with Whittlesea shire in the year 1915. By the time the Whittlesea Shire was created in the year 1915, several state schools and various churches, church schools were established in the area. Also, many new hotels were also developed in this area.
The First European Settlers came before the period of 1840’s. However, the land in the Whittlesea city was being used for settling since 1840’s. Since, the European settlers acquired this land, therefore, the main settlers were the English people. The main reason of these people of settling here was to exploit the natural resources of this land. The Epping town received its name from the Epping Forest in England because most of the settlers and residents in Epping town were mainly the farmers from the Irish origin and also included the English, Scott and German population. There were many farms and the dairy farms in the Epping town. The transportation and communication process significantly developed during the period of 1840’s to 1870’s and continued to get improved over the period of 1900’s. Melbourne to Whittlesea railway (1889-1960) also had a railway station at Epping the main industries that were benefitted through this route of transportation was dairy industry, as the farmers used the rail road for the transportation of the milk and quarry products.
Demographics: Research Data and Comparisons
Before the European settlers entered to the land, the land was mainly owned by the Indigenous population. However, with the colonization that indigenous life was significantly disrupted and the fertile lands were acquired by the settlers.
The Indigenous people were the original inhabitants of Victoria; however, the new settlers had the desire to find the good pastoral land and also desired to identify and exploit their natural resources.
The land in the Epping region was very fertile that lead to the development of farming as the main occupation in the area and over the period of many years various farms were developed by the Irish farmers.
According to the Australian bureau of statistics (2016), the total population of Epping is 32,395 which comprises of 49.7% of male and 50.3% of females.
The population includes 8,634 families and 11,268 people in private dwelling. The average number of people per family is 3. 54.2% population is marriers, 3.3% are separated, 6.9 are divorced, 4.1% are widowed, while 31.4% people never married.
References
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2016). 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved from: https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC20872
Amin, Ash. (2002). ‘Ethnicity and the multicultural city: living with diversity’. Environment and Planning A. 34, 21.
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