Core 1 Flashcards
Measuring health status
- roles of epidemiology
- measures of epidemiology ( mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, infant mortality )
Identifying priority health status
SCP123
- social justice principles
- costs to the individual and community
- prevalence of condition
- potential for prevention and early intervention
- priority population groups
Groups experiencing health inequities
ADORES
- ATSI
- Disabled
- overseas born
- rural and remote
- elderly people
- socio-economically disadvantaged
High levels of preventable chronic disease injury and mental health problems
- CVD
- cancer
- diabetes
- respiratory disease
- injury
- mental health problems and illnesses
A growing and ageing population
HIDA
- healthy ageing
- increased population living with chronic disease and disability
- demand for health services snd workforce shortages
- availability of carers and volunteers
Health care in Aus
- range and types of health facilities and services
- Responsibility for health facilities and services
- equity of access to health facilities and services
- health care expenditure vs expenditure on early intervention and prevention
- impact of emerging new treatments and technologies on health care, eg cost and access, benefits of early detection
- health insurance: Medicare and private
Complementary and alternative heart care approaches
- reasons for growth if complementary and alternative health products and services
- range of products and devices available
- how to make informed consumer choices
Health promotion based on action areas of the Ottawa charter
- levels of responsibility for health promotion
- the benefits of partnerships in health promotion, eg government sector, non-government agencies and the local community
- how health promotion based on the Ottawa charter promotes social justice
- the Ottawa charter in action
