Core 1 - Health Priorities in Australia Flashcards
1
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• Measuring health status
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- Role of epidemiology
- Measures of epidemiology (mortality, infant mortality, morbidity, life expectancy)
2
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• Identifying priority health issues
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- Social justice principles
- Priority population groups
- Prevalence of condition
- Potential for prevention and early intervention
- Costs to the individual and community
3
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• Groups experiencing health inequities
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- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged people
4
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• High levels of preventable chronic disease, injury and mental health problems
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- Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
- Cancer (skin, breast, lung)
- Diabetes
5
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• A growing an ageing population
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- Healthy ageing
- Increased population living with chronic disease and disability
- Demand for health services and workforce shortages
- Availability of carers and volunteers
6
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• Health care in Australia
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- 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 versus expenditure on early intervention and prevention
- Impact of emerging new treatments and technologies on health care, e.g. coast and access, benefits of early detection
- Health insurance: Medicare and private
7
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• Complementary and alternative health care approaches
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- Reasons for growth of complementary and alternative health products and services available
- Range of products and services available
- How to make informed consumer choices
8
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• Health promotion based on the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter
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- Levels of responsibility for health promotion
- The benefits of partnerships in health promotion, e.g. 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
