1. Syllabus - Health Priorities in Australia

Question 1

What is Critical Question 1?

Answer 1

How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified?

Question 2

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 1. Measuring health status

Hint - 2 dash point.

Answer 2

• role of epidemiology
• measures of epidemiology (mortality, considering questions such as: infant mortality, morbidity, life expectancy)

Question 3

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 2. Identifying priority health issues

Hint - 5 dash point.

Answer 3

• social justice principles
• priority population groups
• prevalence of condition
• potential for prevention and early intervention
• costs to the individual and community

Question 4

What is Critical Question 2?

Answer 4

What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?

Question 5

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 3. Groups experiencing health inequities

Hint - we only need to know two!

Answer 5

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Socioeconomically disadvantaged people

Question 6

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 5. A growing and ageing population

Hint - 4 dash points!

Answer 6

• healthy ageing
• increased population living with chronic disease and disability
• demand for health services and workforce shortages
• availability of carers and volunteers

Question 7

What is Critical Question 3?

Answer 7

What role do health care facilities and services play in achieving better health for all Australians?

Question 8

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 6. Health care in Australia

Hint - 6 dash points!

Answer 8

• range and types of health facilities and services
• responsibility for health facilities and services
• equity of access to health facilities and services
• expenditure (early intervention vs prevention)
• impact of emerging new treatments, eg cost and access, benefits of early detection
• health insurance: Medicare and private

Question 9

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 7. Complementary and alternative health care approaches

Hint - 3 dash points!

Answer 9

• reasons for growth of complementary and alternative health products and services
• range of products and services available
• how to make informed consumer choices

Question 10

What is Critical Question 4?

Answer 10

What actions are needed to address Australia’s health priorities?

Question 11

List the dash points associated with:

Dot Point 8. Health promotion based on the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter

Hint - 4 dash points!

Answer 11

• levels of responsibility for health promotion
• the benefits of partnerships in health promotion, eg gov sector, non-gov agencies & local community
• how health promotion based on the Ottawa Charter promotes social justice
• the Ottawa Charter in action