Health Indicators
This indicator measures the average number of years a person can expect to live.
What is life expectancy?
Name one social determinant of health.
What is income, education, employment, housing, or access to healthcare?
What is the name of Australia’s universal healthcare system?
What is Medicare?
What does WHO stand for?
What is the World Health Organisation?
Define health inequity.
What is an unfair and avoidable difference in health outcomes?
What does DALY stand for?
What is Disability Adjusted Life Year?
How does education level affect health outcomes?
Better education improves health literacy and employment opportunities.
Medicare is funded by this type of tax.
What is the Medicare Levy?
What is the main goal of Sustainable Development Goal 3? SD3
To ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all ages.
Which population group in Australia experiences the highest burden of disease?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
A low infant mortality rate usually means a country has a high level of this.
What is healthcare quality or development?
Explain why people living in remote areas often experience poorer health.
Limited health services, transport, and resources.
Name one service covered by Medicare.
GP visits, hospital care, or some specialist services.
Give one example of a global health issue.
HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, maternal mortality, COVID-19.
How does socioeconomic status influence health outcomes?
Lower SES often means less access to healthcare, poorer nutrition, and more risk exposure.
What is one major difference between Australia’s and a developing country’s leading causes of death?
What is chronic disease vs infectious disease prevalence?
Describe how cultural factors can influence access to healthcare.
Cultural barriers, language, or mistrust can affect use of services.
What is the main goal of the Closing the Gap policy?
To reduce health inequalities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Explain how poverty impacts global health outcomes.
Poverty limits access to nutrition, education, and healthcare.
Identify one inequity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Lower life expectancy, higher chronic disease rates.
Explain how health expenditure per capita influences population health outcomes.
Higher spending usually improves access, prevention, and health system quality, improving outcomes.
Outline two strategies to reduce the impact of social disadvantage on health
Closing the Gap initiatives, community health programs, education access.
Explain one challenge the Australian health system faces in achieving equity.
Access in remote areas, funding, or cultural safety.
Describe one global health initiative and its purpose.
UNICEF immunisation programs, WHO malaria initiative, Red Cross disaster relief.
Suggest a policy or program that works to address health inequities.
Closing the Gap, National Aboriginal Health Strategy, local community programs.