Age shall not weary them
A person who offers to perform a service for the community without pay. (Elderly people are often these types of people)
What is a volunteer?
The service provider (doctor) charges Medicare directly for the consultation fee, thereby accepting the Medicare benefit as full payment for the service, and the patient pays no fee to the doctor.
What is bulk billing?
A young person vaping after watching an influencer online is an example of this sociological factor.
What is the culture of everyday life?
An approach that considers the whole person, including physical, mental, emotional and social aspects, in the assessment and treatment of health and wellbeing, recognising the interconnectedness of these elements
What is holistic?
The process of developing and maintaining the functioning ability that enables wellbeing in their older age
What is healthy ageing?
Those operations that are not classified as emergencies
What is elective surgery?
These 2 strategies studied from other OECD countries are ones that Australia can use to improve their own health outcomes.
What is the sugar tax (UK), National Mental Health Strategy (Sweden)?
The acronym (CALD) exapanded means this.
What is culturally and linguistically diverse?
A person who, through family relationship or friendship, looks after an older person or someone with a disability or chronic illness
What is a carer?
Caps the amount a family will pay for PBS subsidised medications in a calendar year
What is the PBS Safety Net?
Where on the podium Australia sits, relative to other OECD nations, in terms of health care equity and outcomes.
What is first place?
The verbs in order of which they were asked in the exam.
What is outline, explain, analyse and evaluate?
Having virtual check-ups via video calls, thereby reducing the need for travel.
What is telehealth?
Care provided by those who don’t have first point of contact with patients, such as a breast cancer care nurse
What is secondary care?
Suffering from multiple chronic illnesses at one time
What is comorbidity?
A coordinated partnership across different sectors of society such as health, education, housing, and transportation in order to jointly address complex social and public health issues
What is intersectoral collaboration?
Supporting a cause or position or acting on behalf of yourself or someone else to ensure that best interests are considered
What is advocating or advocacy?
A payment collected by the government from a person’s income
What is a levy?
The two causes mentioned in Q1 in the paper responsible for higher life expectancy.
What are low levels of infant mortality and better management of CVD?
Attitudes/stereotypes formed outside conscious awareness that can affect understanding, actions and decisions
What is unconscious bias?