improvements in Australia's health status since 1900

Question 1

what are the improvements to health status since 1990

Answer 1

• increased life expectancy
• infant, under5 and maternal mortality rates decreased
• mortality rates for injuries, infectious have decreased

Question 2

what is public health

Answer 2

public health refers to the ways in which goverments monitor, regulate and promote health status and prevent illness.

Question 3

what is old public health

Answer 3

goverment actions that focused on altering the physical enviroment to help reduce the spread of infectious diseases, which including the provision of safe water and sanitation, improved housing, sewage disposal, work conditions and improved nutrition.

Question 4

what are some old public health initiatives

Answer 4

• clean drinking water are provided
• sewage systems were established and saniation were improved
• improved life expencancy

Question 5

clean drinking water are provided leads to

Answer 5

• people were provided with safe water to drink
• this can lead to waterbourne diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera were reduced
• decreased infant and child mortality rates
• improved life expencancy

Question 6

sewage systems were established and saniation was improved leads to

Answer 6

• sewage systems help to keep human wastes separated from water supplies, and garbage and waste were removed from the systems.
  1. improved life expencancy
  2. decreased infant and child mortality rates
  3. waterbourne diseases such as gastroeteritis, diarrhoea, cholera and hepatitis were reduced.

Question 7

more hygienic birthing practices leads to

Answer 7

• there were safe and hygience birthing conditions were trained and registered midwives and doctors.
  1. reduction in material and infant mortality rates.

Question 8

what are some waterbourne diseases

Answer 8

• diarrhoea
• cholera

Question 9

what are some infectious/ communicable diseases

Answer 9

• whooping cough
• small poxes
• measles

Question 10

sample answer of old public health initiatives linking them to improvements (sewage systems are established and saniation is improved)

Answer 10

sewage systems are established; this involves improved garbage disposal and removal of sewage, this may contribute to a reduction in the spread of bacteria that contributed to conditions such as diarrhoeal disease. helping to reduce the number of children dying from this conditions and reducing under 5 morality.

Question 11

sample answer of old public health initiatives linking them to improvements (clean drinking water was produced)

Answer 11

clean drinking water was produced; people were provided with safe water to drink, this may contribute to reduce the risk of waterbourne disease such as chloera which could contribute to the decrease of morbidity and prevalence.