Identifying Priority Health Issues
What are the social justice principles?
- Equity
- Diversity
- Supportive Environments
What does the PBS stand for?
Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme
What are the 5 action areas of the Ottawa Charter?
1. Developing Personal Skills
2. Building Healthy Public Policy
3. Strengthening Community Action
4. Creating Supportive Environments
5. Reorienting Health Services
'Behaviours that reduce the risk of illness and disease in our older people as choices are made to positively impact health and wellbeing' What is this a definition of?
Healthy Ageing
Fill in the Blank: People or groups who are characterised by poor levels of education, low income, poor housing and unskilled work or long periods of unemployment are said to be ____________
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
How are priority health issues identified?
- Social Justice Principles
- Priority Population Groups
- Prevalence of Condition
- Potential for Prevention and Early Intervention
- Costs to the Individual and Community
What is involved in institutional care?
- Hospitals (Public, Private, Psychiatric)
- Nursing Homes (Private/Charitable, Private for Profit, State Government)
- Services (such as Ambulance)
What is the promotion of fundamental and universal human rights and the removal of inequality?
Social Justice
What are the benefits of healthy ageing?
- Improved quality of life
- Stay in the workforce longer
- Decreased financial impact
What are the determinants of health?
- Socio-cultural
- Socio-economical
- Environment
What is the money spent on a variety of expenses directly related to the presence of the illness/injury
Indirect Costs
Which level of government is responsible for immunisation programs?
State and Territory Governments
What are 2 benefits of partnerships in health promotion?
- Allow for effective and efficient system
- Members of the community are able to participate in the health status of the population
- Addresses the needs of the community and individuals for more effective health promotion
- Combine resources, knowledge and experiences to effectively develop and implement health strategies
The greater need for nurses, specialists, facilities and transport services is an example of?
Demand for health services and workforce shortages
Outline the 6 priority population groups
1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
2. People in rural and remote areas
3. Socioeconomically disadvantaged
4. The elderly
5. People with disabilities
6. Overseas born people
What diseases has the greatest cost to an individual and community in Australia?
CVD
What has led to increases in life expectance, improvements in quality of life, more treatment options and decreased time spent in hospital?
Emerging New Treatments and Technologies in Health Care
How does the 'closing the gap' campaign address the action areas of the Ottawa Charter, creating supportive environments and developing personal skills
Creating Supportive Environments
- Seek to train health professionals, ensure fresh food is available and develop house waste supplies/removal systems to improve house quality
Developing Personal Skills
- Seeks to increase ATSI educational levels and provide primary health services
- E.g. compulsory PDHPE classes K-10
What are some initiatives that are working to reduce the need for carers?
- Community Aged Care Packages
- Aged Care at Home
- Extended Aged Care at Home
What is the difference in life expectancy between ATSI and other Australians
10 Years
What is the top 3 leading causes of death for males in Australia?
1. Coronary Heart Disease
2. Lung Cancer
3. Dementia and Alzheimers
Who does the Medicare Safety Net protect?
People requiring large numbers of medical services each year
What are the levels of responsibility for health promotion?
- Federal Governments
- State Governments
- Private Sectors
- Communities
- Individuals
What 2014 initiative did the government introduce to meet the needs of a growing and ageing population?
'Living Longer, Living Better' - Aged Care Reform
What diseases are socioeconomically disadvantaged people more at risk too?
- CVD
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Chronic Respiratory Disease
- Higher Rates of Depression