Exam Revision Flashcards
Define direct costs and indirect costs
Direct cost: Costs associated with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability.
Indirect cost: Costs not directly related not directly related to diagnosis and treatment of the disease, but occur as a result of the person having the disease.
Define disability adjusted life years
DALYs are a measure of burden of disease, in which one DALY is indicative of one year of healthy life lost to time spent living with illness or disease, or premature death.
Define obesity
Obesity relates to carrying excess body weight in the form of fat that can have negative impacts on health. It is defined as having a BMI of 30 or higher for adults.
Explain the ‘Efficient’ value of the health care system.
- An efficient health care system is one that can achieve desired outcomes with cost-effective use of resources.
- Resources must be used in the best way possible to achieve maximum benefits to the community.
What are the five Australian Dietary guidelines (Word for word)
- To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, by physically active and choose amounts of nutritious food and drinks to meet your energy needs.
- Enjoy a wide variety of foods from each of the five food groups everyday.
- Limit intake of foods containing saturated fats, added sugars, added salts and alcohol.
- Encourage, support and promote breastfeeding
- Care for your food; prepare and store it safely.
What are two local government and two state government responsibilities?
Local: Health inspections at restaurants, water quality testing
State: Ambulance services, public hospital services
What are the five aspects of the VicHealth mission?
- In partnership with others, promote good health
- Recognise that the social and economic conditions for all people influence their health.
- Promote fairness and opportunity for better health.
- Support fairness that assist individuals, communities, workplaces and broader society to improve their wellbeing.
- Seek to prevent chronic conditions for all Victorians.
What are the strategic priorities of VicHealth?
- Promote healthy eating
- Encourage regular physical activity
- Prevent tobacco use
- Promote harm from alcohol
- Improve mental wellbeing
What the action areas of the Ottawa charter for health promotion?
Build a healthy public policy Create supportive environments Strengthen community action Develop personal skills Reorient health services
What is the benefit of non-government organisations?
NGOs provide aid directly to people in developing countries, and works very closely with communities to ensure sustainability after the project has been completed.
What are the values that underpin the Australian health system?
Safe Efficient Effective Continuous Accessible Responsive Sustainable
What public health services are not covered by Medicare?
Private hospital treatment and ambulance services.
Why have the Australian dietary guidelines been developed?
- To reduce the risk of Australians developing diet-related diseases such as hypertension or diabetes.
- To develop healthy dietary patterns that will promote health and wellbeing in the community.
Define emergency aid
Refers to the rapid assistance given to people or countries in immediate distress to relieve suffering during and after man-made emergencies such and natural disasters.
What are WHO’s six priorities?
- Universal health coverage
- Health-related millennium development goals
- Non-communicable diseases
- International health regulations
- Increase access to medical products
- Social, economic and environmental determinants
