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The study of patterns and disease.
What is epidemiology?
When grouped are the leading cause of mortality for the general population.
What are all cancers?
ATSI, Low SES, Rural and remote
What are examples of priority population groups?
Benign tumours.
What are tumours that don't spread?
DCSRB
What is the acronym for remembering the 5 action areas of the ottawa charter?
The measures of epidemiology.
What are mortality, morbidity, infant mortality and life expectancy?
The life expectancy in years of males and females.
What are 81 and 85?
The money spent on diagnosing, treating and caring for the sick
What are direct costs?
Is the cancer with highest mortality rates.
What is lung cancer?
Hospitals and nursing homes
What are examples of institutional care?
Are the 5 ways of identifying priority health issues.
SPPPC
social justice principles, priority pop groups, prevalence, prevention, costs
Dementia and CHD respectively.
What are the leading causes of death for females and males?
Are the three types of Cardiovascular diseases.
What are CHD, Peripheral Vascular Disease and Cerebrovascular Disease?
Behaviours that enhance good health
What are Protective factors?
Chiro, physio, podiatry, massage
What are examples of ancillary services?
Equity, diversity and supportive environments.
What are the 3 principles of social justice?
Access to services and geographic location.
What are examples of environmental determinants?
The build-up of fatty and/or fibrous material on the interior walls of arteries.
Is the type of diabetes associated with poor lifestyle choices.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
Australia's universal health insurance scheme that gives access to health services at low or no cost.
What is medicare?
Media, peers and family.
What are examples of sociocultural determinants?
Education, employment and income level.
What are examples of socioeconomic determinants?
Is the hormone associated with diabetes.
What is insulin?
Is independence and lengthening the number of healthy years, not just the years of life.
What is healthy ageing?
Health Promotion Strategies that I should know.
What are Close the Gap and National Tobacco Strategy/Road Safety Strategy?
Shorter wait times and choose your own doctor
What are benefits of private health insurance?
Health care which is used instead of conventional medicine.
What is alternative health care?
individual, community and governments.
Who has responsibility for heath promotion?
Is evidence that the Road Safety strategy is working.
What does a recent decrease in road fatalities mean?
Plain cigarette packaging and high taxes on cigarettes.
What are examples of Building Healthy Public policy for the Tobacco Strategy?