Senior PDHPE HSC 2017
Health Priorities in Australia
HSC Core 1
How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? analyses the use of epidemiology and the principles of social justice in the identification of priority health issues in Australia. This critical question lays the foundation for the rest of Health Priorities in Australia. It has a focus on how health information is collected and who uses this information. It is important to know the limitations of the data collected as epidemiology can only tell us particular things about health, often the how? and the what?, but not the why?
How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? requires you to read and understand tables and graphs. These are often presenting trends in Australia’s health, such as the decreasing smoking rate or the increasing occurrence of type 2 diabetes.
In the identification of priority health issues, you need to understand how epidemiology is combined with other issues, such as costs and social justice issues in order to determine what the priority health issues are. How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? only has two (2) dot points.
Measuring health status is an important aspect of promoting health in Australia. It allows us to identify priority health issues, monitor progress and re-evaluate health promotions. The measurement of health status uses epidemiology to provide a picture of many aspects of Australia's health and to help health authorities to determine future actions required.
Australia is one of the world’s healthiest countries, but has many lifestyle diseases and other illnesses that need to be addressed. Epidemiology has a vital role in determining the priority areas for Australia’s health and provides plenty of information, however this information is limited in what is can tell us.
You need to ensure that you critique the use of epidemiology and can interpret graphs and tables that present epidemiology in a format more readily understood.
Epidemiology is “the study of the patterns and causes of health and disease in populations, and the application of this study to improve health.” It involves the collection of data from hospitals, GPs, health care practitioners, surveys and census information. This data is gathered and analysed in order to provide a picture of Australia’s health status.
What does it tell us? Epidemiology tells us the basic health status of Australia in terms of quantifiable measures of ill health. This data is gathered and used to provide trends in disease incidence and prevalence along with information about ethnic, socioeconomic and gender groups. Epidemiology uses data on: death rates, birth rates, illnesses, injuries, treatments provided, work days lost, Hospital usage, and money spent by both consumers and the government.
Who uses it? Researchers, health department officials, the government, and health or medical practitioners use epidemiology. This data is used to help identify priority health issues and possible causes of disease or illness.
Do they measure everything about health status? No. Epidemiology has many limitations that need to be understood. At the basic level, statistics and data like epidemiology can be manipulated by the interpreters and are very open to bias. They also tend to focus on negative measurable aspects of health and not the positive, less measurable aspects such as, wellbeing and quality of life. They also do not account for the determinants of health: individual, sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors. Epidemiology provides little if any data on the impact of disease and illness.
Epidemiology is often converted into tables and graphs that are used to provide pictures of trends in disease, illness and disability. Currently Australia’s life expectancy is on the increase for both males and females, with females having a higher life expectancy than males. This life expectancy placed us at 6th in the world for males and 7th for females.
Homework:
Homework Due Monday 16th October 2017 (12:00 Midnight)The answers should be placed in a Word document attachment and emailed to paul.brown9@det.nsw.edu.au
Failure to do so could result in an N Warning and removal from the course.
1. Read and take notes on the passage above
2. Study the graphs and tables on the page and identify which health trends are evident. Identify which types of illness or which trends with regard to life expectancy are portrayed. Be specific!
Go to the following link:
https://www.pdhpe.net/health-priorities-in-australia/how-are-priority-issues-for-australias-health-identified/measuring-health-status/use-tables-and-graphs-from-health-reports/
3. How is epidemiology used to improve the health of Australians? Provide examples (6 Marks, 12 Lines, 12 Minutes)
Go to the following link:
https://www.essaydomain.com/indicators-of-morbidity/
4. Outline TWO indicators of morbidity. Include examples in your answer (3 Marks, 6 Lines, 12 Minutes)
How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? analyses the use of epidemiology and the principles of social justice in the identification of priority health issues in Australia. This critical question lays the foundation for the rest of Health Priorities in Australia. It has a focus on how health information is collected and who uses this information. It is important to know the limitations of the data collected as epidemiology can only tell us particular things about health, often the how? and the what?, but not the why?
How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? requires you to read and understand tables and graphs. These are often presenting trends in Australia’s health, such as the decreasing smoking rate or the increasing occurrence of type 2 diabetes.
In the identification of priority health issues, you need to understand how epidemiology is combined with other issues, such as costs and social justice issues in order to determine what the priority health issues are. How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? only has two (2) dot points.
Measuring health status is an important aspect of promoting health in Australia. It allows us to identify priority health issues, monitor progress and re-evaluate health promotions. The measurement of health status uses epidemiology to provide a picture of many aspects of Australia's health and to help health authorities to determine future actions required.
Australia is one of the world’s healthiest countries, but has many lifestyle diseases and other illnesses that need to be addressed. Epidemiology has a vital role in determining the priority areas for Australia’s health and provides plenty of information, however this information is limited in what is can tell us.
You need to ensure that you critique the use of epidemiology and can interpret graphs and tables that present epidemiology in a format more readily understood.
Epidemiology is “the study of the patterns and causes of health and disease in populations, and the application of this study to improve health.” It involves the collection of data from hospitals, GPs, health care practitioners, surveys and census information. This data is gathered and analysed in order to provide a picture of Australia’s health status.
What does it tell us? Epidemiology tells us the basic health status of Australia in terms of quantifiable measures of ill health. This data is gathered and used to provide trends in disease incidence and prevalence along with information about ethnic, socioeconomic and gender groups. Epidemiology uses data on: death rates, birth rates, illnesses, injuries, treatments provided, work days lost, Hospital usage, and money spent by both consumers and the government.
Who uses it? Researchers, health department officials, the government, and health or medical practitioners use epidemiology. This data is used to help identify priority health issues and possible causes of disease or illness.
Do they measure everything about health status? No. Epidemiology has many limitations that need to be understood. At the basic level, statistics and data like epidemiology can be manipulated by the interpreters and are very open to bias. They also tend to focus on negative measurable aspects of health and not the positive, less measurable aspects such as, wellbeing and quality of life. They also do not account for the determinants of health: individual, sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors. Epidemiology provides little if any data on the impact of disease and illness.
Epidemiology is often converted into tables and graphs that are used to provide pictures of trends in disease, illness and disability. Currently Australia’s life expectancy is on the increase for both males and females, with females having a higher life expectancy than males. This life expectancy placed us at 6th in the world for males and 7th for females.
Homework:
Homework Due Monday 16th October 2017 (12:00 Midnight)The answers should be placed in a Word document attachment and emailed to paul.brown9@det.nsw.edu.au
Failure to do so could result in an N Warning and removal from the course.
1. Read and take notes on the passage above
2. Study the graphs and tables on the page and identify which health trends are evident. Identify which types of illness or which trends with regard to life expectancy are portrayed. Be specific!
Go to the following link:
https://www.pdhpe.net/health-priorities-in-australia/how-are-priority-issues-for-australias-health-identified/measuring-health-status/use-tables-and-graphs-from-health-reports/
3. How is epidemiology used to improve the health of Australians? Provide examples (6 Marks, 12 Lines, 12 Minutes)
Go to the following link:
https://www.essaydomain.com/indicators-of-morbidity/
4. Outline TWO indicators of morbidity. Include examples in your answer (3 Marks, 6 Lines, 12 Minutes)