Health awareness session for Bangladeshi community in Melbourne

Bangladeshi community

Migrants have less health awareness Source: Image: Supplied

Victorian Bangladeshi Community Foundation (VBCF) is organising a 'Health Awareness Session' for Bangladeshi residents on Sunday, 28 July at The Grange School in Hoppers Crossing, west of Melbourne. This session will cover some common public health issues that community should be aware of. Coordinator of this program and public health specialist Dr Muhammad Aziz Rahman speaks to SBS Bangla about this session.


 

Dr. Aziz believes people don't prioritise their health until they are sick. Referring to public health perspective, he says many diseases can be prevented if only they are aware with and this program will highlight those prevention measures. 

He says physicians and specialists will brief the community members on the behavioural issues that affect human health.
Bangladeshi community
Dr. Aziz Rahman is a public health specialist Source: Supplied
Dr. Aziz thinks migrants like Bangladeshis have more health risk factors than Australian born people. 

He understands migrant community have less health awareness which actually comes from social and cultural norms. 

Dr. Aziz Rahman, a public health specialist by himself, and his fellow physicians who will deliver speech on this session want to divulge the risk factors, behavioural pattern and cultural perspective so that it will improve public health awareness not only in his community but also within wider Australian people. 


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