Improvements in Australia’s Health Since 1900
This approach to public health focused on improving the physical environment, including sanitation, sewerage systems, clean water and food safety.
What is old public health?
This model of health focuses on diagnosis, treatment and cure of disease and illness.
What is the biomedical model of health?
This term refers to the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.
What is health promotion?
This initiative provides evidence-based recommendations about the types and amounts of foods Australians should consume for health and wellbeing.
What are the Australian Dietary Guidelines?
This part of Australia’s health system provides free or subsidised treatment by doctors and some specialists.
What is Medicare?
This improvement helped reduce the spread of infectious diseases by removing human waste safely from communities.
What are sewerage systems/sanitation improvements?
This model of health aims to address the broader determinants of health and prevent illness before it occurs.
What is the social model of health?
This social justice principle is promoted when health programs are culturally appropriate and respectful of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
What is equity?
Also accept: respect for diversity, if clearly explained.
This visual food selection model shows the proportion of the five food groups recommended for a healthy diet.
What is the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating?
This scheme subsidises the cost of many prescription medicines for Australians.
What is the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, or PBS?
These are two examples of biomedical improvements that have helped reduce mortality rates since 1900.
What are x-rays and antibiotics?
Other acceptable answers: medical technology, surgery, diagnostic tools, anaesthetics, cancer treatments, medications.
This Ottawa Charter action area involves increasing people’s health knowledge and personal skills so they can make healthier choices.
What is develop personal skills?
This is an example of a program or initiative that aims to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ health.
What is Tackling Indigenous Smoking?
Other acceptable answers may include Aboriginal Quitline, Closing the Gap initiatives, Deadly Choicez.
This healthy eating guide includes culturally relevant foods and reflects the food practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
What is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guide to Healthy Eating?
This part of the health system provides support for eligible Australians with permanent and significant disability.
What is the National Disability Insurance Scheme, or NDIS?
A decline in deaths from infectious diseases since 1900 can largely be linked to these two broad reasons.
What are old public health measures and biomedical advances?
This Ottawa Charter action area involves laws, policies or regulations that support healthier behaviours.
What is build healthy public policy?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health organisations reflect this Ottawa Charter action area because communities are involved in identifying and addressing their own health needs.
What is strengthen community action?
These are two commercial factors that can make nutritional change difficult in Australia.
What are advertising and the availability of cheap processed foods?
Other acceptable answers: marketing, sponsorship, product placement, fast-food promotions, supermarket pricing strategies.
This part of the health system can reduce pressure on the public system by helping people access private hospital treatment and extras services.
What is private health insurance?
When analysing health data over time, a decrease in infant mortality and an increase in life expectancy would allow students to make this overall conclusion.
What is Australia’s health status has improved over time?
The biomedical and social models of health work best together because one focuses on treatment, while the other focuses on preventing illness before it occurs.
What is prevention and addressing the broader determinants of health?
A health promotion program that is community-led, culturally safe and improves access to healthcare promotes social justice because it supports these three ideas.
What are equity, access and participation?
Also accept: rights, fairness, respect for culture and empowerment if explained.
Healthy eating initiatives may improve health outcomes by reducing the risk of these types of conditions.
What are diet-related chronic conditions?
Examples include cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer and obesity.
Medicare promotes access and equity because it reduces this type of barrier to healthcare.
What is a financial barrier?