Prelim Core 1 Better Health for Individuals

What does health mean to individuals?

100

What are the dimensions of health?

Physical

Spiritual

Social

Mental

Emotional

200

Provide 3 examples of a positive risk behaviour for sun safety.

Sunscreen

Shade

Staying out of the sun

Not using solariums/tanning beds

Any other relevant example.

300

Provide an example of how the media impacts our perception of health.

News articles describing rising obesity levels or cancer awareness.

Photoshopping and body ideals.

Any other relevant answer.

400

Describe what is meant by dynamic and relative nature of health.

Refers to the use of others to compare the health status of a particular person. The term relative means considered in relation or in proportion to something else. Dynamic means change over time. 

500

Provide a traditional definition of health AND a contemporary (modern) definition. 

Traditional: free of illness or injury

Contemporary: state of complete physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing

What influences the health of individuals?

100

Identify the socioeconomic determinants of health

Education
Employment 

Income

200

Identify 3 non-modifiable determinants.

Genetics

Family

Media

Culture

300

Give 2 examples of the how environmental determinants impact health.

Geographical location can mean that foods purchased have had to travel further and have less nutrients in them as well as meaning a lack of educational or employment opportunities.

People who live in rural or remote areas have less access to health services, with few specialists, fewer hospitals 

Any other relevant example. 

400

Explain the relationship between sociocultural determinants and individual determinants with at least 2 examples.

Explains family, genetics, culture, attitudes, religion media, with appropriate examples. 

500

Explain why some individuals/groups have better or worse health than others. Give an example.

Example response: Family live in poverty > child grows up in poverty > significant disadvantage in education and skills, struggles to get a job > fails to escape poverty cycle > family in poverty 

What strategies help to promote the health of individuals?

100

Identify who is responsible for health promotion

Individuals

Community groups/schools

NGOs

Government

International organisations 

200

Describe the preventative medical approach and give an example. 

Preventative medical approaches are approaches that involve drugs and technology to help to prevent health issues.

Example: immunisations, screenings 

300

What is the historical significance of the Ottawa Charter?

The original conference was held by the World Health Organisation in Ottawa, Canada on 21st November 1986. It was the First International Conference on Health Promotion. The Ottawa Charter provided a positive definition for health (something to pursue, rather than something to be avoided) and encouraged the collaborative approach to health promotion that aims to promote health through changing the social determinants of health.

400

Identify the action areas of the Ottawa Charter

Developing personal skills 

Creating supportive environments

Strengthening community action, 

Reorienting health services,

Building healthy public policy.

500

Provide an example of how a health service/campaign could uphold all three principles of social justice (one example per principle).

Medicare or subsidies 

Multiple languages/translators

Road safety strategy

Town planning for safe parks 

Any other relevant examples 

Random

100

Which of the following are individual factors that determine health? 

• Socioeconomic status, geographical location
• Access to technology, genetics
• Peers, media and attitudes
• Knowledge, skills and genetics

Knowledge, skills and genetics

200

Which of the following best describes the process of health promotion?

• Mediating separate interest groups to promote positive health outcomes
• Enabling individuals to increase control over and improve their health
• Advocating communities to accept health promotion strategies from the Commonwealth Government
• Controlling individuals to ensure they make regular visits to their doctor

Enabling individuals to increase control over and improve their health

300

Which of the following identifies only sociocultural factors that influence health?

• Education, media, employment and genetics
• Family, peers, media and religion
• Peers, family, culture and income
• Income, media, peers and religion

Family, peers, media and religion

400

The provision of a mental health clinic, to support people living in a rural or remote area, would address which area of social justice?

• Equity and supportive environments
• Equity and diversity
• Equality and diversity
• Inequity and health services

Equity and supportive environments

500

Which of the following best describes the relationship between the dynamic nature of health and the health continuum? 

• Health is constantly changing, its position on the health continuum shifting continually.
• Health cannot change in different contexts and will always remain constant on the health continuum.
• Health is influenced by one dimension and can only be achieved at one end of the health continuum.
• The health continuum has no relationship to the changing nature of health.

Health is constantly changing, its position on the health continuum shifting continually.

Exam knowledge

100

How many multiple choice questions are there in the PDHPE HSC exam?

20

200

True or false:

The short answer responses can only be taken from the core modules (Section 1)

True 

300

True or false:

Core module content can be asked in the extended response section (Section 2)

False

400

Name the modules we will be studying this year in the preliminary course.

Better health for individuals

The body in motion

Fitness choices

First aid

500

Name the modules we will be studying in the HSC course

Health Priorities in Australia

Factors Affecting Performance

Sports Medicine

Improving Performance