Definitions

Question 1

Public health

Answer 1

The ways in which governments monitor, regulate and promote health status and prevent disease

Question 2

Old public health

Answer 2

Government actions that focused on changing the physical environment to prevent the spread of infectious disease

Question 3

Biomedical model for health

Answer 3

Focused on the physical or biological aspects of disease and illness, it is a medical model practiced by health professionals and is associated with diagnosis, treatment and cure of disease.

Question 4

New public health/ social model of health

Answer 4

An approach to health that expands the traditional focus on individual behaviour change to one that considers the ways in which physical, sociocultural and political environments impact on health. Also referred to as the social model of health

Question 5

Health promotion

Answer 5

The process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. Health promotion focuses on prevention rather than cure.

Question 6

Medicare

Answer 6

Is Australia’s universal health insurance scheme which provides all Australians access to health care services which are subsidised by the government

Question 7

Private health insurance

Answer 7

An additional insurance under which members pay a fee in return for payment towards health-related costs not covered by medicare